Aphelion

By confirmation do you just mean confirmation that he has received the submission, or an actual yes or no re: publication? The poor sod has been slaving away editing and preparing materials for the Nightwatch project, and had a larger-than-usual batch of novellas in this issue, so it may take a while to get around to reading your submission ... but I would expect that he will acknowledge receiving it fairly quickly.<br><br>You'd send out an acknowledgment within a day of receiving a submission, wouldn't you, Jeff? Assuming that you read your mail every day, that is ...<br><br>(The only long(er)-form story I've submitted to Aphelion was that Nightwatch piece, so I don't know for sure how quickly Jeff usually responds.)<br><br>Robert M.<br><br>

My day job frequently requires me to leave beautiful Texas for California, the garden of Eden, for a week at a time. If you do not receive a prompt acknowledgement, it could be that I am out of town or it could mean I just need to clean out my inbox.

<br>Tsk tsk. Someone should supply a major winning lottery ticket to each editor so he or she can devote full time to the much more important task of making Aphelion the most important non-paying sf zine in the world. (Assuming that it hasn't already achieved that status, of course.)<br><br>[The preceding has been a blatant attempt at sucking up / bootlicking. Professional sycophant on a closed course. Do not attempt at home.]<br><br>

Robert is not anybody's pet. He just submits so much stuff that it is impossible to lose it all.

<br>What Cary means is that they couldn't raise enough cash to get me my distemper and rabies shots, so I'm still stuck in my cage at the Writer Shelter. Owoooooooooooooo ...<br><br>'Stuff' goes together with 'nonsense' as 'horse' goes with 'carriage' (or maybe 'horse exhaust' with 'horse'?).<br><br>Robert M.

I will wait here with baited breath for the confirmation to come in.
Lee

<br>Nyuk nyuk nyuk. "Baited breath". If you were a cartoon cat trying to catch cartoon mice, you'd eat some cheese in order to have "baited breath". If you were a big fish trying to catch smaller fish, you'd eat worms. If ... (you supply the next one). I think the expression is supposed to be "bated breath".<br><br>From www.word-detective.com: word "bated" is an aphetic, or clipped, form of the word "abated," and means "lessened or restrained." In other words, to "wait with bated breath" is to hold your breath while waiting for something to happen ...<br><br>I know, if you poke a wolf with a stick, and the wolf eats you, don't blame the wolf. But Lee is much too gentle to -- Lee? What are you doing with that chainsaw?<br><br>Robert M.

It's OK, Rob. I was thinking that too. :)<br><br>-Chris

It's OK, Rob. I was thinking that too. :)

-Chris

<br>About introducing me to your pet chainsaw? But I'm very attached to my head and limbs!<br><br>Robert M.

... a safe place for a story to be:)

<br>Safe from me, Nate K., and other literary vivisectionists? (Since it's your story, I assume that you've already had your way with the poor thing.)<br><br>Robert M.

there's no end in sight to my eternal loss of face in this forum, and Robert is always the one to come to the rescue...or is he? as for "baited", every time i use that particular figure of speech some nether part of the brain goes "there's no I in it you dimwit!", alas, totally ignored.

Thanks for pointing it out though!

Lee

<br><br>If you call what I do "com(ing) to the rescue", you probably consider being beaten up by Girl Scouts "fun" ...<br><br>Robert M.