Attached Link: http://www.internet-resources.com/writers/markets/online-guidelinesPR.htm

and latest find. I got this rejection in my in-box yesterday from Glimmer Train. Dear Jon, Although we won't be publishing this particular piece, we do thank you for sending "The Hots". It was a good read. We're not able to give specific feedback, but please take a look at Editors' Input for some ideas. Again, we appreciate the opportunity to read your work! Glimmer Train Press I wasn't too disappointed, since I knew GT is a literary' magazine and my piece was just light humor. Still, working on the theory that I should submit to the highest paying market first I figured I'd give it a shot. And it's a fairly nice rejection. Now for the find. Since I need to find a new place to send my story I began searching for on-line submission guidelines. I found Towse's Links to Online Submission Guidelines - Agents, Publishers, Markets for Writers (see link). It seems to be pretty extensive and you may find just the right place to send your story or poem. I found a couple of leads. Hope others find it useful too. jon

Rejection = battle scar = you're in the fight..... (there's got to be a gentler way to put it, I know, but...) Congratulations and thanks for links page. Who knows, Popular Mechanics might like my work 8^)

I wish I could get something finished so I could get rejected again. My motto to writing: If you've never been rejected you aren't trying hard enough.

Thank you for this great resource! I'm sorry to hear about your rejection...but at least you have the courage to submit something. Good for you! Keep writing and submitting! Leah

Thank you, Jon. I appreciate you sharing your experiences (even your disappointments) as well as the links. That actually was a nice rejection, as far as rejections go. It did not say your work wasn't publishable...just not quite right for their publication. I'm sure your time will come....I hope, sooner rather than later. Sorry I didn't respond earlier. I am restricting my computer time thanks to a case of tendinitis, which is my punishment (I'm sure) for my hubris about never having had any problems with my wrists.

Attached Link: http://www.ursulakleguin.com/Reject.html

It happens to almost everyone.

Funny....What a rejection letter. This is my take on it. The rejection letter is so endlessly complicated by details of reference and information, the interim message become so much of a nuisance despite their relevance, that the very action of the letter seems to be to become hopelessly bogged down and the letter, eventually, unreadable. heheh Thank you for sharing this dailyn..good to know that it happens to everyone.

Don't get me wrong... I loved the Earthsea series, but there is just something about Ursula's writing style that keeps ripping me out of the imaginary world for reasons I can't understand... There's something about the meter or maybe just the way she switches from active to passive voice every few sentences that made reading the novels a much larger chore than it otherwise would have been. Overall, I've very much enjoyed her work. It's just that 'twinge' that I can't specifically identify.