Comments on: NEWS: December 22, 2008: How Not to Impress Me

By: WCarmstrong

WCarmstrong — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:10:47 +0000

Although she did give you a brutal word-whipping responding in the way you did invites hostility. people who cannot take rejections and email you back with a snappy letter should be ignored as is expected of a professional editor you sent me a rejection commenting on my skill, not about my proof reading or anything despite the fact my work has been published on paying venues so your comments about my skill as a writer are “unfounded” as you put it. sorry Nathan but despite what your fans say they are far from unbiased, you do have an ego.

By: drscottrocks

drscottrocks — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:38:26 +0000

That makes me laugh! I’m embarrassed for her. I wonder why she would submit to a non-paying market if she’s been doing this since the 1980’s? I’m pretty sure we all (well, most of us) get better the more we write. Yes? I for one am glad Nathan doesn’t publish stories with such errors. They may be short stories but I’d rather not waste my time with such sloppiness. What a disgrace!

By: mikewhitney

mikewhitney — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:54:03 +0000

Egos: writer v editor or writer v writer, here’s a classic from Scott Fitzgerald to rival Ernest Hemingway poking jealous fun at Papa’s macho image as the hard-drinking, fast writing sportsman:

“I hear …that you have finished a novel a hundred thousand words long consisting entirely of the word “balls” used in new groupings…”

By: arbraun

arbraun — Sat, 09 May 2009 17:25:21 +0000

God help her.

By: Enigma

Enigma — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 05:42:47 +0000

She is sooo full of herself. She doesn’t even try to see her mistakes. Why didn’t she just corrected what was wrong and then sent it again? I guess she prefers to bully though…

By: joshua scribner

joshua scribner — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:40:49 +0000

I would take a rejection letter like that as a compliment. You’re basically saying edit it and you’ve got a shot. I’ve had rejection letters where it sounds as if the editor is talking about a different story. Still, you just have to move on.

By: boohoohoo

boohoohoo — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:07:04 +0000

As Ann of yore would say: She needs to wake up & smell the coffee!!!! (do wake up, dearie, for your own sake) :)

By: Trihan

Trihan — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:37:57 +0000

I’m…um…what?

A…new way of writing…a story?

Okay, back up a second.

Did I miss the memo where all of the poet laureates of the 20th century declared that atrocious punctuation and typographical errors are, in fact, some GROUNDBREAKING new way of writing that I was unaware of?

Jesus christ, I’d better start editing my existing works with “mistakes” before they become outdated!

By: Oonah V Joslin

Oonah V Joslin — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 01:01:03 +0000

Ogh, take no notice of her, Nathan! We dead-beats will just stick thegether so we will, and eat pretzels and shave and bathe only when necessary and make really bad editorial decisions – like we editorial people do. Let us celebrate outmoded concepts like punctuation, spelling and grammar. Let us embrace tradiitions such as decency and gentleness and let us kick the shit out of anyone who abuses our friends.

Did you say I was a woman by the way? My gosh! How flattering ;)

How big a coffin will this great ego need, I wonder? Bigger than mine, I dare say…

By: Adrian Ludens

Adrian Ludens — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 04:31:18 +0000

This just boggles my mind. It’s almost like a prank… or someone forgot their meds. I can’t imagine what other editors must think of this “author”.