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Rejections: My Almost-Date with Vampirella

Last year, on May 9 and May 10, I told you about a pair of rejections I received in my early years as a wannabe writer: one was from The Twilight Zone Magazine, for a short story I’d submitted; the … Continue reading

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Rejections: No Flys On (Or For) Me

Check it out, aspiring writers: another rejection letter from the archives! This one’s from around 1983, when I pitched a story idea to Archie Comics, home of that immortal high school teenager, Archie Andrews. Only I wasn’t interested in writing … Continue reading

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Rejections: Everybody Gets ’Em

Submitted for your approval: one Steven Roman, who in the mid-1980s wrote a short story that he discovered had no place in…The Twilight Zone. In the 1980s, Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone Magazine was a publication that was half glamour … Continue reading

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