You may remember I blogged recently about a self-published novelist having submitted a ms. to F&SF who managed to violate nearly every rule of submission etiquette. Well, lucky me! This week, there was another submission from him in the pile.

And despite the fact that I very nicely pointed out the ways in which he varied from standard procedure and provided him with a link to Vonda McIntyre’s very handy article on the subject, he ignored all of my advice and submitted his new manuscript in exactly the same way as he had his first.

Well, to be fair, he might have listened to one piece of advice (though it may have been luck of the draw); previously, he submitted, I believe, three stories at the same time. This time around, there was only one in the submission package. Hey, let’s hear it for progress!