"buried in email...just digging out" isn't a great excuse if that's your excuse every single day of the week. You might want to get better with email. And I say that as someone who responds to 150, maybe 200 emails a day.
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"Buried in email" is a classic editor move, though. Many of are so "buried" that they'll let a piece sit from November to September (this has happened to me!) while still responding to your various looping around/checking in/etc. emails letting you know that they're "digging out"
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this has even happened to me with *solicited* pieces...those email mountains are high and snow-peaked, veritable Kilimanjaros of Discourse
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Yeah, I always side-eyed folks who pulled this excuse--especially when I followed them on social media and read the 20+ tweets they had time for that afternoon.
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bingo. i mean, you worked in the real corporate trenches, where writing work had to get done or else
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If I hadn't replied by the end of the day in which you emailed me, you should have reminded me the next day, unless you were constantly emailing me about an issue that I had already told you I had no power to resolve and that I would inform you when the publisher made a decision.
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I think if the draft's been commissioned, delivered, and you're due $500 after publication, a weekly reminder is in order, especially if it's been sitting there for eight months and they solicited it in the first place
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