Forum: Gripe!

How to rip off an author... The new Jason Strahan/Robert DeNero action movie titled The Killer Elite and based on the novel The Feathermen by...

David Boyer has stolen from over fourteen authors. He had a story that was racking up recs for a Stoker until it was revealed that it had been...

Recently, I sent out a query in regard to a poem I thought was still being held at a certain publication. Turns out, the editor thought I had...

The sun gets too bright, have to walk around squinting much of the time. I'd prefer an all-round temperature suitable for people to live in...

Move along. Nothing to see.

After this one poem of mine was at a pro e-zine for nine months, I sent my standard query. Just saying, you know, I submitted this poem back on...

I fell over in the garden yesterday and badly sprained my ankle... Which hurts. And makes sitting at the computer for any length of time rather...

The Government has decided that as part of the national cost-cutting exercise we're all enduring that they are going to 'reshape' the Library...

This isn't so much a gripe as a rasied eyebrows, scratch my head kind of thing, or an observation... An editor of a big SF publishing house in the...

I've given up on my dream of seeing my ill-fated illustrated dark speculative poetry collection Dreadful Vision, Terrible Dreams published. The dream...

Has anyone else ever had an experience where the remarks from a requested rewrite are so asinine that you wonder if the peanuts you're being paid is...

...who sent me a very polite, encouraging note. My story was "...well received here, but after some thought we decided not to go with it..." I...

A poem I've had bouncing around the cold, cruel world of publication since October 2007, a poem that almost made it into the first publication it was...

Through no fault of my own, the forthcoming publication of my illustrated dark speculative poetry collection has fallen through yet again (grrrr)....

I was supposed to get paid late last week from the local paper for some stories/photos. I figured I'd pick up the check today. Turned out they mailed...

Ok, so as you guys know, I write a lot. I work with at least 6 publishers at the moment and just got offered a contract by another yesterday. One...

Okay Maybe I'm slow, in more ways than one...but it bugs me that I spend a long time getting something ready and this site deletes it...

...that aren't listed on the website. Apparently, my awesome psychic powers do not extend towards knowing whether to include indents in the body...

:nervous: Okay, someone I don't know copied and pasted an entire story that appeared a few months ago at ResAliens into a message at a forum called...

I've been on antibiotics all this month. It started with an infected tooth which abscessed, than went to the urinary tract, and then became a...

..may appear rather unprofessional. It may seem amusing, but I am not amused.

After several unsuccessful attempts to get my poetry published by certain publications (in one case, fifteen poems sent in thirteen different...

Why would I edit the story and resubmit if the theme doesn't fit the zine's scope or if they've already accepted a story similar to mine? How would I...

I can't seem to motivate myself to look for markets to submit to recently. I just updated my spreadsheet with this week's rejections and realized -...

That's "Blue Screen of Death" for those of you not in-the-know. One of the last batches of upgrades from Microsoft (you know, the kind that...