I have trouble with my story submissions.

I submitted a story to a magazine last September and the story was accepted in October. It was slated for the December issue and then rescheduled for April, but there was no story. The July issue just came out – no story. It leaves me in editorial limbo.

I’d like to see the story published. I have a good story, although a hard sell, and I can’t shop it around because it was already bought by this magazine.

I wrote to the editor, but so far no response. This is just my continued bad luck with short stories. It is the third time an editor lost a story of mine after a sale, although it is the first time that they didn’t even seem to know it. Maybe the publishing gods are trying to tell me something. I have a couple of ideas for novels and I don’t want to wait until I am 63 to start writing them. Maybe I’ll have better luck with books.