So the last time I blogged, I was recovering from receiving, losing and retrieving my first literary paycheck. This week, my essay about the pinnacle of my personal rejection behavior, “How to Cancel Your Wedding,” was accepted, edited, and then summarily rejected by The Monarch Review. The editor who accepted my essay promised it would be online Thursday, so I dutifully withdrew it from consideration at a handful of other lit mags, told a few friends, and eagerly checked the oh-so-cool Monarch website for my title. Nada. Finally, on Friday, as I was worrying that they’d changed their minds and really hated my essay, a standard email form rejection from the managing editor appeared in my inbox. Of course! It was all a mistake. Monarch didn’t really want to marry me any more than I had wanted to marry that guy in the essay.
But then I thought about it. I shot an email to the editor who asked to publish my essay– was I to receive the same summary rejection I’d dished? . . . just checking.
A few minutes later, an apologetic retraction from the managing editor arrived: Clerical error. So sorry, we love the essay, we do wish to publish it. Pay no attention.
This is the second false rejection of my literary career. The first was in 2003, when I received a rejection postcard for a photo/poem I’d submitted to Camden County Cultural & Heritage Commission’s show, “My View.” I bucked up and attended the opening, to see what they had accepted. Inside, on a prominent first floor wall, hung my photo/poem. Not rejected at all. Like my essay.
Writers are admonished not to take rejection personally. Yeah, right. But it helps to know that sometimes rejection is good thing, as in not marrying the wrong guy. And other times, it’s a clerical error. I must remember this, as I love to write. Getting published is nice, too. And getting paid? Well, that’s the bomb.
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