From: john@jfeldredge.com   
      
   On Sat, 21 May 2016 13:45:18 -0700, C. E. Gee wrote:   
      
   > I average about six rejections per story before it's accepted.  The   
   > range is zero rejections to 17 rejections.   
   >   
   > And I've come to realize that magazine editors are shockingly subjective   
   > in their analysis of any particular story.   
   >   
   > Now I'm not going to name the magazine or the story, but I had an   
   > experience with a rejection that made me realize that some editors   
   > haven't a clue.   
   >   
   > When said editor rejected the above-mentioned story, a number of reasons   
   > for the the rejection were given.  All of the reasons were ridiculously   
   > invalid.  But one of the reasons that really struck me as absurd was:   
   >   
   > The story included a passage where the daughter, who was in her late   
   > teens or perhaps early twenties and who lived at home with her parents   
   > entered the house WITHOUT KNOCKING! The editor rebuked me for this item.   
   >   
   > I've raised a couple of kids, as have most of my friends and relatives.   
   > All their kids enter without knocking, even the ones who no longer live   
   > with the parents.   
   >   
   > Plus all the houses I've lived in as an adult had doorbells.  The story   
   > takes place a couple hundred years from now.  And the people have no   
   > doorbell?   
   >   
   > Sheesh.   
   >   
   > Said editor also made a comment about an android who's motors were not   
   > running when the android was standing still.  The editor never heard of   
   > the conservation of power in battery operated devices?  Or of stepper   
   > motors?   
   >   
   > Again, sheesh.   
   >   
   > Up 'til now said magazine was high up on my submissions list.  I'm going   
   > to drop it down a ways.   
   >   
   > Thanks for letting me vent.   
   >   
   > NAMASTE   
   >   
   > C.E. Gee   aka Chuck   
   >   
   > http://www.kinzuaid.blogspot,com   
      
   This is bizarre. I have never heard of any etiquette rules that require   
   one to knock when entering your own house.  Evidently that editor has   
   some personal issues.   
      
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