Thanks Caroline. It's unfair what happened to you. I was only about a week with this publication, not very long and initially they did let me resubmit if there were things to correct. But it turned much more stressful, when there was cross-over with communication and it was unclear and it started to go down a rabbit hole of trivialities and silly things to correct. Even when one editor accepted and published my story, the more senior one still left m a private note saying if "she" had seen this error it wouldn't have been published. The attitude seemed more like a school teacher reprimanding and other attempts to communicate were ignored, I feel deliberately so, and stories left unpublished. That kind of lack of care isn't something I want to waste my time over. It can happen with other publications too, but haven't encountered this before. Usually if they're messing and not caring, I just take back my story and publish it elsewhere. End of story!
But in this case I was building up a good rapport with others in the community and we were actively engaging with each other's stories and I thought it was a great community. At the start I was made feel very welcome and as I say, I was given a chance for corrections, but that soon changed. Seems like "love bombing" in a publishing sense. I rather someone is just direct and upfront and if there is a problem or they don't want to publish, just tell me. That's fine, better than wasting my time being treated like a child and messed about like that. I have left the publication entirely and deleted all my stories too, to take them back into my control. I realise editors aren't paid and it's a tough job but I had expressed my gratitude and appreciation to the editors, but seemingly that wasn't enough. It's not good enough treating writers with that. It destroyed my confidence and taken me days to cope with this and republish my stories, etc, an loss of earnings over it, when I could've been writing an earning in the publication if that hadn't happened. Thanks for responding and telling me your experience. This situations may seem minor but they can have devastating effects on a writer. At last I felt I was making progress and getting more reads and interactions, then it was all over before it started. As I say, reminds me of one of those "love bombing" affairs people have.
