I sent an email query last April, asking after a short essay a magazine had been holding for six months. Yesterday, they answered my query (almost a year later). Just goes to show how slow things sometimes get. I think writing is the only "business" in which practices like this are "allowed" to happen.
The literary world really has changed in this regard; for a couple of decades, I didn't have any problem hearing back from every editor I sent to, no matter if the ultimate answer was a rejection. Now I often hear nothing back at all, and things get lost a lot more often. Granted, I get more acceptances, but there definitely has been a change in the whole sending-and-receiving of literary submissions, at least for me.
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