Tuesday, September 19, 2006

E-Mailing Hub Mag

The annoying (as well as seeming to be a little unprofessional) thing is that I have multiple e-mail addresses forthese people. There's the submission address, the address I received my acknowledgement from, the reply to address attached to that e-mail and the editor's address as listed on the contact us page of their website. In order, those are

fiction@therighthand.co.uk
lee@therighthand.co.uk
lee@thedreaming.co.uk
leeh@therighthand.co.uk

I guess that since their reading list is currently full, they won't be checking the submission inbox any time soon. But how are we meant to know which of the others to send an e-mail to in order to not only get read, but also garner a response? (I used lee@thedreaming.co.uk to tell them I would be out of the country for two weeks back in July/August and got no response, which either means they didn't get it, didn't care or didn't think I was worth replying to. I'm thinking that leeh@therighthand.co.uk might be the best bet, since it's currently listed as the contact address on the site. But still, this is highly confusing.

I tried accessing their forum earlier today, but they're not online yet, so no luck there. And duotrope lists 68 pending responses and 1 author withdrawl, and I know from Bibsy's comment on my last post that there are others at the Den waiting on these guys. Seems they're no more speedy than they are comprehensible.

What I think I'll do is send the same e-mail to every address I have for this guy (Lee Harris, the fiction editor/submissions bloke) and see if that gets me anything. After all, I love accumulating rejection slips.

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