Eric James Stone

…but it’s better than an outright rejection.

The editor of Analog has given me the first rewrite request of my career. There’s no guarantee that he’ll buy the story if I make the changes he suggests, but it’s a possibility.

Needless to say, I will make the changes.

As a personal matter, I’d rather sell a story to Analog than to any other magazine, because Analog used to be Astounding Science Fiction, and it’s the magazine that first published so many of the Asimov and Heinlein stories I read when I was young. (I didn’t actually read them in the magazine, I read them in anthologies that were published later.)