Authors you can check on the status of your submission here.

My apologies for the length of time it can take - please remember The Lorelei Signal is a one woman operation and I do also have a day job.

If you do not see your submission on this list and it was sent prior to the update listed - please send an email.

Please note I may not respond to submissions that failed to follow the submission guidelines.

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A note on how submissions are reviewed. Submissions go through a couple of stages:

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1) A quick review of the opening paragraphs to see if they grab my attention enough to convince me to keep reading and also to make sure they are not seriously out of the posted formatting guidelines. With the number of stories I am starting to receive, I may start auto rejecting those that are sent in something other than the requested file format of .rft without even opening them.

2) Those that make it through the first stage get a full read to make sure they can hold my attention for the full length. At this point as I re-open the story to read it - if you did not follow the posted guidelines - I will NOT read the story and will move it to a "Did not follow guidelines" folder.

3) If I have more stories than I typically accept for the issue - I'll do another read through to see if the story continues to hold my attention.

The Lorelei Signal is a one woman operation and receiving over 100 submissions for each issue means, like many other editors, I am looking for reasons to be able to set a story aside quickly - failure to follow guidelines can lead to a story being set aside.

 

Even if your story doesn't make it through the first read - all that means is it didn't work for me. Stories accepted for magazines are often more a matter of personal taste than something being wrong with the story. What doesn't appeal to one editor may be the bees knees to another.

Submission guidelines for The Lorelei Signal can be found here.

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