To start off with, hello again to the Escapist forum. I've been away from the forum since the site originally started falling apart last year, and I doubt I'll be around again very often until things are fixed/migrated over to v2. Regardless, I've popped on to post this on the forum because I have no idea where else to put it (and if there's a better subforum than this, I can't see one).
Actually, I'm not even sure how to put this, either, so I'll just give the TL;DR:
Over a month ago, I sent off an article/column pitch to the Escapist, after being personally encouraged to do so [https://twitter.com/EscapistMag/status/1085897607623380992] by the site's official Twitter account, but despite the submission guidelines [https://www.escapistmagazine.com/v2/submission-guidelines/] stating at the time to expect a response within 10 days (for some reason, this particular line is no longer there. Hmmm...), I never did. Even my follow-up e-mail was met with complete radio silence.
A rejection would be understandable, but just being ignored like this for more than a full month is disheartening, to say the least.
Anyway, the reason I'm posting this here is that I can't find any way to contact anyone who might be able to clarify things for me, especially with Russ currently taking a sabbatical from Twitter. Ideally it would be somewhere less public, since I'm not trying to shame anyone, but my e-mails to the submission box were both ignored and I can't find the personal e-mails of anyone from the site. So really, I'm just acting on the preposterously slim hope that someone with the ability to pass some info along will see and read this.
I'd just appreciate an explanation as to why I never heard back, is all.
Actually, I'm not even sure how to put this, either, so I'll just give the TL;DR:
Over a month ago, I sent off an article/column pitch to the Escapist, after being personally encouraged to do so [https://twitter.com/EscapistMag/status/1085897607623380992] by the site's official Twitter account, but despite the submission guidelines [https://www.escapistmagazine.com/v2/submission-guidelines/] stating at the time to expect a response within 10 days (for some reason, this particular line is no longer there. Hmmm...), I never did. Even my follow-up e-mail was met with complete radio silence.
A rejection would be understandable, but just being ignored like this for more than a full month is disheartening, to say the least.
Anyway, the reason I'm posting this here is that I can't find any way to contact anyone who might be able to clarify things for me, especially with Russ currently taking a sabbatical from Twitter. Ideally it would be somewhere less public, since I'm not trying to shame anyone, but my e-mails to the submission box were both ignored and I can't find the personal e-mails of anyone from the site. So really, I'm just acting on the preposterously slim hope that someone with the ability to pass some info along will see and read this.
I'd just appreciate an explanation as to why I never heard back, is all.
