Time-to-reject?

[marydell]

Anyone have an idea how long Tor.com takes to reply to submissions?  I'm eager to add to my collection of rejection notes but I don't want to pester them if I'm still in the usual-response window.  I subbed about 6 months ago.

Comments

[calendula-witch.livejournal.com]

They take a VERY VERY VERY long time. I submitted in March and am still waiting. I followed up after 6 months and got a response, was told it would be read soon... Jay got an acceptance after about 9 months, earlier this year.

[marydell.livejournal.com]

Ah, good to know! thanks. This particular story has already been rejected by F&SF, Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Weird Tales, and one or two of others, so it's not like it needs to go anywhere else soon anyway...I'll wait another 3 months and then I'll pester.

I suppose I should finish polishing another story to get circulating, sigh.

[ashnistrike.livejournal.com]

I have something similar--queried after a year, was told it was lost, resubbed a couple of months ago and was told it would be read soon. Did you ever hear back on yours? I'm curious about how long "soon" might be.

[calendula-witch.livejournal.com]

Not yet. After a second six-month mark, I'll query again.

It's a darn good story, too, if I do say so myself--and I can, because it's a collab, and all the goodness is due to my co-author. :-)

[marydell.livejournal.com]

Did you receive an automated acknowledgement or anything like that? I don't think I got any kind of pingback but maybe they don't do that.

[calendula-witch.livejournal.com]

Not automated, but I did get a response when I queried. Nothing when I first sent it in, in March.

[stillnotbored.livejournal.com]

6 months to a year sounds about right. They sandwich the short story reading around novel editing work so it takes an eon and an age.

[seawasp]

If it's slush, the major publishers are in the year+ category now, I think. Dunno about agented submissions.

[marydell.livejournal.com]

This is a short story sub, not a novel, but Tor.com is apparently one of the slower markets.

Someday I may learn about agented submissions, but not within the current decade, I think, given my glacial writing pace. :)