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February 2024 Recap

| March 5, 2024

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 116 Acceptances received: 2 Rejections received: 41 (+3) Stories withdrawn: 4 Resubmissions: 41 New Submissions: 8 Stories out at the end of the month: 115 February has continued January’s trend of being a good time to finish pieces. One of my new submissions this […]

January 2024 Recap

| February 6, 2024

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 112 Acceptances received: 1 Rejections received: 36 (+4) Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 36 New Submissions: 11 (+1) Stories out at the end of the month: 116 January turned out to be a great month for getting pieces that were not quite done at the […]

My 2023 Overall Recap!

| January 8, 2024

My numbers for 2023: Stories out at the end of 2022: 83 New Stories Written: 118 (21 short stories, 44 flash or shorter, 53 poems) Old Stories Making the Rounds: 156 Total Submissions: 761 Total Rejections: 652 (+34 Never Responded, 7 Withdrawn, 2 Returned, 7 Failed) Total Acceptances: 16 (+5) (+2) Stories out at the […]

My 2023 Awards Eligibility Post

| January 3, 2024

It’s the time of year when folks start posting lists of their stories and books from the past year that are eligible for award nominations, like the Nebulas, Hugos, and more. I’m including word count for my short stories and novelette this year, because different awards require different word counts, and it’s easy for me […]

December 2023 Recap

| January 2, 2024

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 86 Acceptances received: 2 Rejections received: 49 (+1) Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 77 New Submissions: 28 Stories out at the end of the month: 112 December was a very productive month for me. After the busy-ness of November with NaNoWriMo, I had time to […]

November 2023 Recap

| December 5, 2023

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 100 Acceptances received: 3 Rejections received: 55 (+1) Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 44 New Submissions: 2 Stories out at the end of the month: 86 November was a busy month with NaNoWriMo, and unsurprisingly, my submissions suffered a bit. I only wrote two new […]

October 2023 Recap

| November 2, 2023

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 107 Acceptances received: 3 Rejections received: 83 (+10) Stories withdrawn: 1 Resubmissions: 86 New Submissions: 6 Stories out at the end of the month: 100 Pretty good numbers this month, with a bunch more submissions and some acceptances! The acceptances were for two very […]

September 2023 Recap

| October 3, 2023

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 139 Acceptances received: 0 Rejections received: 78 (+11) Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 51 New Submissions: 4 Stories out at the end of the month: 107 A slightly slower month on the submissions and writing fronts, mainly because I spent two weeks of the month […]

August 2023 Recap

| September 5, 2023

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 107 Acceptances received: 0 Rejections received: 46 (+3) Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 71 New Submissions: 11 Stories out at the end of the month: 139 The numbers this month are definitely going up in terms of submissions, but without a commensurate return in acceptances. […]

My Clarion West Write-A-Thon Recap!

| August 7, 2023

I set my Clarion West Write-A-Thon goals to be basically what I’d be writing in a normal six week period: Draft two short stories Draft seven flash fiction pieces Revise two short stories Revise novella And I did it! I drafted coast and bunny, I wrote EIGHT flash fiction pieces, revised dragon and contact (which […]