From: djheydt@kithrup.com   
      
   In article , Bill Swears   wrote:   
   >On 5/23/2016 3:38 PM, Brenda wrote:   
   >> A great many rejections have nothing to do with you or the story at all.   
   >> Your story is about pirates. But yesterday the editor bought a pirate   
   >> story, from Stephen King. So he's definitely  not buying yours, sorry.   
   >>   
   >> Brenda   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >I had a free-lance editor and reviewer blast my book because of its   
   >unreasonable world setting, then apologize to me a year and a half later   
   >when World War Z came out.  All mouth noise after the initial review,   
   >fortunately published in an unknown online review site.   
      
   You lucked out.  _The Interior Life_ got a thoroughly nasty   
   review in _Locus_; the reviewer assumed that because one of the   
   female protagonists was married and had children, and by the end   
   of the book the other two were married and expecting children,   
   therefore I must be a neo-Nazi who believed that all women should   
   stick to kitchen-church-and-kids.   
      
   I also got a review in an unknown (printed) local review site,   
   praising it highly, but nobody ever saw it except the members of   
   some radical womyn's bookstore collective in Oakland.   
      
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   Dorothy J. Heydt   
   Vallejo, California   
   djheydt at gmail dot com   
      
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