{"id":19550,"date":"2015-05-27T22:26:22","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T02:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=19550"},"modified":"2015-05-27T22:29:06","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T02:29:06","slug":"let-me-tell-you-about-the-only-response-to-a-science-fiction-age-rejection-i-ever-liked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2015\/05\/27\/let-me-tell-you-about-the-only-response-to-a-science-fiction-age-rejection-i-ever-liked\/","title":{"rendered":"Let me tell you about the only response to a Science Fiction Age rejection I ever liked"},"content":{"rendered":"

There were many wonderful moments during last weekend’s Balticon<\/a>, such as my reading, and the podcast I recorded with Brian Keene (about which more later), but the panel I enjoyed most was Saturday’s “Tales from the Slush Pile,” during which I shared a few intriguing letters I received while editing Science Fiction Age<\/em><\/a> from 1992-2000. (I almost wrote “amusing” rather than “intriguing,” but I was not at all amused by the writer who threatened that if I didn’t do what he wanted, he’d behave like Carlos the Jackal.)<\/p>\n

One of those letters, a response to one of the approximately 800 rejections I was forced to send out each month, was not only my favorite such response, but was so popular with the audience I thought it worth sharing here. <\/p>\n

And so, in the video below, you can hear me read the only response to a Science Fiction Age<\/em> rejection I ever liked … as well as offer a few words of advice.<\/p>\n