First rejection!

[lavivi]

On April fourth, I sent in The Kite Flyers to The New Yorker submission email.

Yesterday, at 11:39 a.m., I receieved a response, which was composed of two lines.

We regret that we are unable to use the enclosed material.  Thank you for giving us the opportunity to consider it.

The Editors

 

Disappointed?  Naturally.  Really disapppointed?  No.  How weird would it be if I got published on my very first try, and yet all of the really great authors - Stephen King, for example - didn't make it on their first try?

I'll send it in somewhere else - to a slightly less prestigious literary magazine.  And I think I'm being forced to write some more this summer.

Comments

[buttaflykisses3.livejournal.com]

It's ok that it did not get in:) You'll make it. Just to let you know, I thought that Kite Flyers was very good and I liked it muchly!

[lavinialavender.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Caitlin!