The Grumpy Celt said:
That said, the rejections are disappointing. The silences – where you never hear anything back one way or the other – are worse because they simply leave you twisting in the wind. To clarify, I am not talking about a one-week silence/waiting period to hear back, but a silence of three or more months.
Being foolishly stubborn, I have not given up – I am simply venting.
I kinda know how you feel there. Not exactly. I'm not a writer, but a reviewer. And in my case, I was looking for review copies.
I contacted pretty much every d20 company in existance, plus every distributor I could find.
At first, I wasn't sure if I should ask. But eh - why not? I have written well over a 100 d20 reviews here, plus 75 more at RPG.net, and had managed to weasel myself onto Bastion Press's reviewers list. I've always reviewed their stuff promptly and reasonably well (and in some cases, was one of the only people to do so - I've only seen 2 other reviews of Arena and Forged, yet I know they have 20 people on their reviewers' list).
The reviews at RPG.net get read from 700 to 1700 times in the first week, which dwarfs any other site I could find that has a counter. So, it makes just as much sense, from a marketing standpoint, to send someone like me a copy, as someone at a site whose review only gets 150-200 reads (which my Geocities site manages to rival, amazingly enough), since it gets posted both here and at RPG.net net (albeit in slightly different forms usually, to fit a slightly different audience).
No reply at all. Except a snarky and apparently dishonest one from FFG.
Bummed me out. Again, they don't owe me anything. But eh. Still irks me
What also irks me, is that a few companies, based on reviews I had written of their products in the past, had also said they would put me on their list. But they never did.
What also irks me is that some employees of companies said "Oh, just talk to this person and they'll set you up". But of course, that wasn't the case.
But on the other hand, there have been a few nice cases. Like Dark Quest Games sent me some stuff out of the blue, which was especially cool as one of the books, Dweomercraft: Familiars, is one heck of a book, and I never would have heard about it. And Ed Cha also tried to get some review copies for me, which I really apreciated. And Charles Rice offered to send me a copy of Legends of Excalibur (which I actually wanted to buy, since I was looking forward to it for so long and wasn't disappointed when I did finally buy it). So it balances out somewhat
(OTOH, someplace will have to freeze over before I'll ever review another FFG book again, though I still buy them)
) and it is a great feeling. I also felt that nervous feeling on awaiting the reviews. Really, just take it all in stride good and bad, and know that you did something few have the inclination for. 
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