The Editor Giveth, The Editor Taketh

Lest the encouraging message from the Dark Wisdom assistant editor rise to my head, Sheila Williams of Asimov’s Science Fiction sent a form rejection letter for ‘Diamond Sharks’. She took her time about it, too: while their own guidelines claim a return time of about 5 weeks, I’d been waiting 4 months for a response. So long, in fact, that I’d assumed the manuscript had gotten lost in the mail; I sent out the replacement copy two days ago.

Two more days of patience would have saved me a fortune in postage…