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Ryan Leeds ([personal profile] ryanleeds) wrote2012-07-19 04:44 am
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So I just received one of the most insulting personal rejections I've ever seen. Not insulting to me, but insulting to my story.

I was told that I should have made one of the characters in Reformatted Soul male.

Granted, I did strip out the non-binary pronouns to make the story more palatable for the market, but seriously. What the fuck?
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[personal profile] thiefofvoices 2012-07-19 03:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Ugh. I wish I was surprised. D: (Mind if I ask where it was? Though um, PM me the answer if you don't want to air it on the blog.)

This and a lot of other stories like it (plus some personal experience) are part of the reason I'm so afraid to write Slouching Toward. :(
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[personal profile] ryanleeds 2012-07-19 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
PM'd.

I'm trying not to be too pissed off about it. He didn't like my story, and that's okay. He's also a sexist douchenozzle who doesn't think robots can have genders. (He put EDEN's gender in scare quotes in the rejection.) It's just really discouraging because I gave him the watered down version of the story.
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