I thought it would be a better idea to take up the thank-you note thingy here, than in the gallery comments. :) Any editor who is willing to put their name on a rejection slip rather than a generic "The Editors" gets a brief thank-you note from me. Editors aren't the enemy. It isn't their fault that they're overworked, underpaid, and indunuated with completely unpublishible trash that they must deal with on top of making the truly difficult decision of which of the good stuff to send their limited budget on. It makes it hard for them to spend time helping out writers. Even the ones who send out anonymous rejection slips probably deserve the courtesy of a thank you, but by not identifying themselves they make it pretty impossible for me to follow through on that. The ones that send me personalized rejections saying that they almost bought it, good luck with someone else, and by the way you have two typos... those definately require some kind of appreciative response.