Next up on The Daily No, we’re traveling all the way back to the beginning, to the first rejection I received once I started tracking my submissions on Duotrope. Imagine, if you will, a warm spring day in Seattle, circa 2012. A baby writer waits excitedly to hear back about the perfect, wonderful story he’s submitted to a pro market that is sure to be accepted and published (it’s perfect and wonderful, remember?) only to have his hopes and dreams cruelly dashed by the unfeeling juggernaut of the...
Published on August 26, 2025 09:26