prusik | I'm so counting this as a personal reject...

I also need to keep better tabs on the Jim Baen's Universe slush bar.

In May, I posted "Detours on the Journey Home" there, tracked it for about a week. I then promptly forgot about it until now. As it turns out, back in June, JBU's assistant editor added a terrific reject comment to the story's discussion thread. This is the first story I've submitted to the slush bar that's gotten any attention from the JBU editorial staff. [That's why I'm counting it as a personal reject.]

Of course, if I'd kept better track, I would have also read the reject in June, as opposed to now. Oh well, on to the next market...

BTW, as rejects go, it really was terrific. "Detours" is my "non-traditional narrative" slipstream story. JBU wants more traditional narrative and more clearly SF. (I do both of those also, just not in this story.) Or in a nutshell: wrong market. He also encouraged me to send in more stories. [Obviously, not before 2009 because they're closed to submissions again.] That's always cool.