Yes, even the New Yorker can sometimes behave like a black hole

Here is the New Yorker's entry on the black hole page:

Magazine/Book Publisher	Response time (#days)	Submission date	Response date	Still waiting for reply?	Type
Magazine: New Yorker	125	2/10/07	6/15/07		Rejection
Magazine: New Yorker	81	07/21/07	10/10/07		Rejection
Magazine: New Yorker	79	8/11/07	10/29/07		Rejection
Magazine: New Yorker	84	9/21/07	12/14/07		Rejection
Magazine: New Yorker	93	08/02/08	11/03/08		Rejection
Magazine: New Yorker	90	07/02/2010	09/30/2010		Rejection
Magazine: New Yorker	101	06/11/11	09/20/11	X	Other non sale

 This includes 2 "data points" I submitted, the 2010 one and the "still waiting" one.

 

My 2 bring it up to a grand total of 6. (Analog has 99.) The 125 days "data point", along with the 93 days one, shows that they don't always respond within 90 days.

To clarify my blog post about my queries, the first time I put the whole story, not just the word "query" in the message box. (I think if you pick "fiction submission" and don't include a pdf it triggers an automatic response telling you that your submission is missing.)

So I have queried twice using the "contact us" form and once using the email address the rejections come from. I think that's enough querying.

So now it's back to the waiting game. 

"A Singular Being": 101 days and counting.

The 90 days have come and gone for my submission of "A Singular Being" to The New Yorker. I am now in Black Hole and Query Land.

Here's how I've attempted to query:

First, using the same "contact us" form you use to submit your work, I put my query naming the date & title of my submission and the word "query" in the "message" box. I picked "fiction submission" as the subject line & got a response that I hadn't enclosed an attachment. Next, I sent a query to the email address the rejections come from. Third, back to "contact us" using "other" as subject & my query in "message".

With so much pending in my life right now (mostly the disability application)... well, a black hole also means infinite possibilities, or infinite time, or infinite gravity, or... infinite something. A rejection is so... finite.