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. SEE ALSO: J.K. Rowling's rejection letters give hope to the writer in us all 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... More about Author, Culture, and Books