You need to read this author’s disastrous rejection story all the way to the end

Pretty much every author out there will have a rejection story or two.

Not many will have ones quite as dramatic as the tale author Mark Leidner shared on Twitter this week, though.

Here it is, in all its ridiculous glory:

I once rejected my own short story from a magazine I was guest editing. The magazine had a blind submission policy, and I didn’t recognize the story as my own and forgot I’d submitted it months before I was asked to guest edit the issue

— mark leidner (@markleidner) August 16, 2018

Posting the screen shots made me feel confident in my writing and that I was smarter than the entitled fuckface who’d submitted the story. I then sent what I thought was an appropriately polite but harsh rejection only to receive the email myself and realize I wrote the story

— mark leidner (@markleidner) August 16, 2018 Read more…

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