Surprise!

I got an e-mail today from an editor: "Why haven't you sent back your revised manuscript? We need your revised manuscript ASAP!!!"

This for a paper I had submitted last summer. Like, summer 2008. I had assumed, as I hadn't heard anything, that it was either rejected (and, oh noes, I thought it was one of the better papers I'd written recently) or that the funding for the Proceedings it was to be in had fallen through.

But no. It looks like the gremlins ate my acceptance notice. Which is sad, because here I was walking around all these months thinking I'd never get published again, and I actually said I wasn't going to apply for full professor this year because I didn't think I'd get it unless I got something else published.

I both e-mailed AND called the person in question - normally I hate phoning someone I don't know - but I'm glad I did because I got to speak to him, he said that the material was going to go out to me "hopefully today"

And it looks like I will have another publication! Thank goodness. Now I feel better.

And yeah, I know, I need to be more aggressive about following things up, it just seems like every time I was aggressive, the editor was like, "Didn't you get our letter saying we'd rejected your manuscript?"

I still hate the academic publishing "game," but I'm relieved that it looks like I'll have another paper coming out sometime.