Reply to submission acknowledgement email?

nomdeboardie

Hi Folks

Re acknowledgement emails for short story submissions: Is it polite to reply with a short sentense to thank the editor for the submission acknowledgement, or do they regard that as just a nusiance email?

(Similar question re form rejections* :pac: I.e. something like [Never mind, Best Regards, Signature], or just leave it.)


Not that any of you would have direct experience of this, of course

EileenG

I'd be inclined to send a one line e-mail about the submission. If you get a rejection, I'd send a short e-mail thanking them for considering it, and promising to learn from it.

bigsmokewriting

nomdeboardie wrote: »

Hi Folks

Re acknowledgement emails for short story submissions: Is it polite to reply with a short sentense to thank the editor for the submission acknowledgement, or do they regard that as just a nusiance email?

(Similar question re form rejections* :pac: I.e. something like [Never mind, Best Regards, Signature], or just leave it.)


Not that any of you would have direct experience of this, of course

No need to thank them for submission acknowledgements - most will be auto-replies anyway.

For form rejections - same thing. If they've offered detailed feedback (whether positive or negative) a quick one-liner is grand, but there's no need to reply to rejections. (Some editors and agents won't even look at replies to rejections because of experience with such replies being abusive or vitriolic - 'how dare you reject my work of genius...' etc.)

nomdeboardie

Thanks for the replies. I got a third from another writing forum, and opions/habits differ . (For any rejections with feedback, that poster suggested a brief thanks on any subsequent submission, which sounds like a good option.)

The latest submission acknowledgement, over which I was dithering, was a magazine that sends them via the editor's named email address, so I just don't want to risk being perceived rude for not replying, but I think that might be paranoid