Click here to view old videos.Rejection Letter #42
I really wish someone would tell me why “Jenny of Lebanon” isn’t good enough. Any kind of constructive criticism would make me happy. I waited almost six months for this SASE to find its way back to me. To get a no is one thing, to repeatedly have no idea why is another. There’s only one more magazine reviewing her at present. I think my next big round should be my last attempts to get someone to print her. Self-publishing may be my only route. That shouldn’t make me as sad as it does, for there’s no shame in it, but it makes me feel so defeated. I could literally die happy if I could just sell one story. Heck, I’d be happy if someone liked what I wrote enough to want to print a story I’d written but didn’t have any money to give.
Sigh. Shake head. Chin up. Gotta keep trying.
Rejection Letter #42 – The Southern Review
