Thrice Fiction editor RW Spryszak has some advice for writers: rejection isn’t personal. Sending hate mail to editors is no way to get published. Writers may resent changes that editors request, but it’s all part of the process:
Writers need to have the perspective to understand that most editors in the small press world also own the shop. They don’t work for anybody else. And their end product has a goal. A standard. For the editor, the finished product has to do with his own ego, his own hubris, and all the work he’s done.