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2015 in Review

| December 31, 2015

It’s the end of the year, and time to look at 2015! (Updated 1/1/16 because of a last minute rejection on the 31st.) My numbers for 2015: Stories out at the end of 2014: 4 New Stories Written: 11 Old Stories Making the Rounds: 13 Total Submissions: 176 Total Rejections: 151 (+1) Total Acceptances: 8 Stories out at the end of […]

November 2015 recap

| December 1, 2015

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 19 Acceptances received: 1 Rejections received: 20 Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 14 New Submissions: 0 Stories out at the end of the month: 12 Well, November is over, and I don’t have a new novel to crow about. I started NaNoWriMo very strong, completing 20,000 words in […]

October 2015 recap

| November 4, 2015

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 19 Acceptances received: 0 Rejections received: 13 Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 14 New Submissions: 0 Stories out at the end of the month: 19 My recap is a little delayed this month because I hit the ground running with my NaNoWriMo novel as of November 1st, and […]

September 2015 recap

| October 1, 2015

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 18 Acceptances received: 1 Rejections received: 12 Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 13 New Submissions: 2 Stories out at the end of the month: 19 So September was a pretty good month! I got two new stories done (witches and machine) and submitted. And I got another story […]

August 2015 recap

| August 31, 2015

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 18 Acceptances received: 2 Rejections received: 15 Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 17 New Submissions: 0 Stories out at the end of the month: 18 The numbers this month are oddly symmetrical, and yet not. I got word of two story acceptances: “Veli tis Artemidos” (a reprint) will be […]

July 2015 recap

| August 4, 2015

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 15 Acceptances received: 1 Rejections received: 19 Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 21 New Submissions: 2 Stories out at the end of the month: 18 Another month of really good submission numbers! I was able to get one story that had been sitting idle back into circulation, […]

June 2015 recap

| June 30, 2015

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 11 (miscounted last month) Acceptances received: 0 Rejections received: 18 Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 21 New Submissions: 2 Stories out at the end of the month: 15 Holy cow, looking at the numbers for June, I have to say I’m a little impressed. I’ve been doing an awesome […]

May 2015 recap

| June 1, 2015

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 6 Acceptances received: 1 Rejections received: 16 Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 18 New Submissions: 3 Stories out at the end of the month: 10 May has been a busy month! I finished and submitted three stories (runners, shoes, and game), and I found four previously published […]

April 2015 recap

| April 30, 2015

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 6 Acceptances received: 1 Rejections received: 3 Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 4 New Submissions: 0 Stories out at the end of the month: 6 The numbers this month seem a little low to me, but I think that’s mainly because I’ve got stories out at markets that have a longer […]

March 2015 recap

| April 1, 2015

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 9 Acceptances received: 0 Rejections received: 11 (+1) Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 9 New Submissions: 0 Stories out at the end of the month: 6 My numbers for the month are a little bit down, which is in part because I’ve pulled two stories out of circulation. In one […]