A Long, Curved Blade

Date	Sent To	Returned	Result	Their Comments (and mine)
3-30-90	Analog SF	4-23-90	Reject!	Unsigned form letter.
4-23-90	Asimov's SF	6-4-90	Reject!	Unsigned form letter.
6-6-90	Fantasy & SF	7-5-90	Reject!	Unsigned form letter.
9-14-90	Haunts	10-4-90	Reject!	"Possibly salvageable with more work. Try a re-write. Pace of story was unacceptable -- too slow and labored. Also, at 8500 words, the piece exceeds our maximum word limit. Consider paring 1000-1500 words."
10-24-90	Haunts	11-21-90	Reject!	Unsigned form letter. Didn't like the re-write, I guess. I tossed the clipped re-write and continued submitting the original version.
11-5-90	Hobson's Choice	1-22-91	Reject!	"…The beginning is good, and the action continues at a brisk pace throughout … seems too much like the BEM stories of the forties and fifties … Please try us again with something else." Notice Hobson's Choice thought it had a "brisk pace" while Haunts thought it was "slow and labored."
1-15-91	The Leading Edge	4-23-91	Reject!	Signed form letter and four student's critiques, very detailed and helpful. Two were rave reviews, one was positive with suggestions, and one thought it was "a little slow … characters weren't deep enough … and the ending was too simple."
4-29-91	Space and Time	5-8-91	Reject!	"Sorry, we're just not buying anything at present."
5-24-91	Omni	7-7-91	Reject!	Unsigned form letter.
7-8-91	New Destinies	9-21-92	Gave up.	Never heard back from them.
11-27-92	Beyond SF&F	6-25-93	Reject!	Unsigned form letter.
10-8-93	Leopard's Realm SF	2-14-94	Sold!	"…we would like to publish it…" Yay!