Thursday, 4 July 2013

I Paid for a Rejection!

I arrived home from Greece to find three rejections from Fiction Feast. As if that wasn't bad enough, I actually paid £1.09 for one of them! I hadn't got enough postage on the SAE as the story was a long one and it had made the envelope too fat - fancy paying for a rejection!

But since then things have looked up. I've had an email from Woman's Weekly to say that they want to buy the story I wrote and sent them after the fiction workshop. I must have learnt something then, despite the assassination attempt, the caffeine withdrawal and the see through t-shirt! Thanks Gaynor.

I then had an email from The lovely People's Friend wanting two stories - more thanks.

Now the icing on the cake - today, I see that I have not one but two stories in Fiction Feast, along with my lovely online buddies Teresa, Della and Amanda (all of whose stories are great).

So, all in all, I don't feel so bad about the £1.09 after all!


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20 comments:

  1. Rosemary Gemmell4 July 2013 at 16:26

    Wow - that's fantastic success, Wendy! I hardly feel sorry for you in paying for the rejection (sorry!). You're obviously doing something right.

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    1. Wendy's Writing4 July 2013 at 16:47

      thanks Rosemary. I feel I need to celebrate the good times when I get them as we all know the unpredictable roller coaster ride of a writer.

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  2. Lindsay4 July 2013 at 16:31

    Wonderful news on the acceptances. No, I don't feel so badly for you about that £1.09 either now!

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    1. Wendy's Writing4 July 2013 at 16:48

      No neither do I, Lindsay... a small price to pay!

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  3. Frances Garrood4 July 2013 at 17:23

    Gosh! You are on a roll, Wendy! Well done!

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    1. Wendy's Writing4 July 2013 at 17:24

      Thanks, France - sure it won't last so best make the most of it.

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  4. joanne fox4 July 2013 at 17:24

    Oh wow! Well, £1.09 barely buys a bar of chocolate these days anyway!

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  5. Teresa Ashby5 July 2013 at 07:51

    That's great news, Wendy - not about the rejections of course (hopefully they are now opportunities), but the acceptances :-) x

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    1. Wendy's Writing5 July 2013 at 08:51

      Yes, Teresa - I can wear my rejection T-shirt for three days and then take it off for three!

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  6. TracyFells5 July 2013 at 15:23

    Terrific news Wendy, definitely on a roll. See that's what a holiday does for you! Really good news about WW - I'm still waiting to hear on the 2 stories I subbed post the workshop - and the stories in FF. Makes up for the rejection and postage. You can toss the rejection T-shirt aside for now :)

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    1. Wendy's Writing5 July 2013 at 16:11

      As you know, this is the second time I've been to the sorting office to pay the excess and collect my post only to find it was a rejection - when will I learn. Good luck with the WW submissions, Tracy.

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  7. Amanda5 July 2013 at 17:33

    Congratulations on your successes, Wendy, and lovely to be sharing the pages of Take a Break's Fiction Feast with you this month. X

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  8. Amanda5 July 2013 at 17:35

    p.s. and with Teresa and Della, obviously! :-) X

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  9. Della G5 July 2013 at 18:26

    I've paid for rejections before too, Wendy, sympathies. I think editors go on courses to see how many stories they can stuff in an envelope. They very often fill them with SAEs too, I find, which you'd also sent, tee hee. Anyway, well done on all the sales. I've had a very good week too :)

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    1. Wendy's Writing5 July 2013 at 19:02

      Ha ha yes I think you're right Della . Glad you've had a good week too - and there was me thinking you had a good week every week!

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  10. Kath McGurl10 July 2013 at 15:51

    Yep, I've paid for rejections too.

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