Ok, to cut a long story short - there's this author I like/admire. I've been following them on twitter for around a year or two now and I've interacted with them a few times, so I'm pretty sure they know who I am. They seem to be really nice and friendly and I was hoping that I could get to know them better because I work in publishing and we just happen to be in the same city. They only have one published book and they generally seem to follow most industry people back. But they haven't followed me back.

I was a volunteer for a conference last month and I just noticed that they followed all of the other conference volunteers on twitter except for me. This kinda implies that they went through the introductions thread and then followed everyone except me. And I genuinely don't know what I've done wrong.

I did submit a short story to an anthology they were editing, and they rejected it, but I don't think that's a big deal? I got over it pretty quickly, at least. And I really can't think of anything that I've done wrong? If someone could talk me through this that would be great because I'm really struggling to understand what's going on here :(