Got my first rude-yet-hilarious response to a rejection sent out today!

[ajodasso]

Let me start by saying this: in my first two reading periods as a Poetry Department co-editor at Strange Horizons, which were one month each, I saw right around two hundred submissions each time. Due to a tremendous backlog of accepted work that we need to publish, we have so far this year switched over to two-month reading periods in which we can

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[rose_lemberg]

This is a think of beauty!

[ajodasso]

Basically my response, too XD

[tehomet]

*cackle*

[squeeful]

Wow, that is a stunning level of rudeness and self-importance. O_O It's so over the top it shoots past petty and pathetic straight into "post on the wall and reread when you need a good laugh".

[ajodasso]

"Post on LJ for the amusement and edification of all" will just have to suffice ;)

[ajodasso]

I'm sure somebody must compile missives like this somewhere, and they are welcome to catalogue it as a prize specimen...

[liquidmorpheme]

This. . . oh boy do I love this. What an extraordinary find, this letter! Perhaps I will petition Anaea to let me read it for the podcast. I feel I could do it justice.
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c i r o

[ajodasso]

Ciro, that would be awesome \m/

[ajodasso]

Oh, that's kind of amazing. Motion seconded.

[theannetookeen]

This is now a think of the past! :D

[ajodasso]

Hopefully, yes ;)