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My seven hundredth short story rejection

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Naomi K
Oct 11, 2011
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I was going to talk about some more about noir novels today, but instead I am going to post about getting my seven hundredth rejection (yesterday, from Lightspeed). Long-time readers might recall my previous rejection milestones:

  • 600 - March 17, 2011 (seven months ago)

  • 500 - June 22, 2010 (fifteen months ago)

  • 400 - September 13, 2009 (two years ago)

  • 300 - A…

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