A small-minded early morning rant

Dear authors who want to get an offer from us so you can force another journal to read your piece publish in our law review,

Please do not ask me to withdraw your submission after we've already rejected it.*

Please do not ask me to expedite review of your submission after we've already rejected it.*

Please do not send me messages telling me what various eminent worthies thought of your submission (unless we actually know the eminent worthies in question/the eminent worthies sent you specifically to our journal).

Please do not send me messages telling me that your piece has reached final review at a top-15 journal; if you don't have an offer in hand, you don't jump to the front of our queue, and if you do get an offer with that top-15 journal, we both know you're not publishing in ours.

Please do not send me messages directing me to insert various footnotes and paragraphs into your already-submitted piece. I am not (yet) your editor. If you need to make that many changes, withdraw the thing and resubmit it (some authors have done this).

And for the love of all that is holy, if you accept an offer elsewhere, withdraw your damn article so that we don't waste our time reading it and getting excited about it when it's really not on the market.

Most sincerely,

Your tired law review editor
(who really does enjoy being on law review, she promises)

*I do realize that these two result from the mass-e-mail function in Expresso rather than any particular thoughtlessness. They're still slightly annoying, though.

Comments

[Another Damned Medievalist]

*headdesk*

[Notorious Ph.D.]

Ah... History publishing, Law Review publishing, and the brands of idiocy remain the same.

[NB]

Ugh. You took the words right outta my mouth.