Overlapping doors -- photo copyright Kyi May Kaung
Q. A magazine has had my article for one month. Should I call and ask?
A. Follow their guidelines -- not replying is typical.
I send multiple submissions unless exclusivity is demanded.
One could wait for years if one were going to wait.
Judicious bugging every few months would not be out of line, I think.
Some editors get swollen headed and never respond, neither yes nor no. For those, mark them in your little black book and move on.
After all, a writer has a better chance of becoming famous than an editor.
Who remembers Dickens' editor?
Mrs. Tolstoy is hardly ever mentioned. It gets better though. Mrs. Vera Nabokov has a biography all to herself by Stacy Schiff.
Text copyright Kyi May Kaung.
