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Flights of Foundry 2024 Quick Recap, Day 1

| October 7, 2024

Catherine Tavares posted her recap of what she attended at Flights of Foundry immediately after the convention. I took a little longer to collect some of my thoughts and notes, but I hope you enjoy! I’m going to have to do mine in chunks by day, so this post just covers the Friday (day 1) […]

September 2024 Recap

| October 3, 2024

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 53 Acceptances received: 0 Rejections received: 30 (+2) Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 41 New Submissions: 4 Stories out at the end of the month: 66 Got the submissions numbers up a bit this month, with more going out than normal! I didn’t have any […]

August 2024 Recap

| September 10, 2024

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 53 Acceptances received: 1 Rejections received: 39 (+2) Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 27 New Submissions: 14 Stories out at the end of the month: 53 A weirdly parallel month, with the same number of pieces out at the beginning and end of the month! […]

July 2024 Recap

| August 6, 2024

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 46 Acceptances received: 0 Rejections received: 32 Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 39 New Submissions: 1 Stories out at the end of the month: 53 Despite all of the shenanigans of July, my submission numbers went up a little bit this month. Not quite where […]

June 2024 Recap

| July 4, 2024

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 82 Acceptances received: 1 Rejections received: 63 (+9; +1) Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 38 New Submissions: 1 Stories out at the end of the month: 46 June continued my slow submitting trend, though I did submit more stories and poems than in May. But […]

May 2024 Recap!

| June 4, 2024

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 93 Acceptances received: 0 Rejections received: 33 (+2) Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 22 New Submissions: 2 Stories out at the end of the month: 82 May was on the slower side for my writing and submitting, but also on the acceptance and rejection sides. […]

April 2024 Recap

| May 7, 2024

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 91 Acceptances received: 2 Rejections received: 67 Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 62 New Submissions: 9 Stories out at the end of the month: 93 April was a pretty good month in terms of submissions, with a couple more out at the end of the […]

March 2024 Recap

| April 2, 2024

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 115 Acceptances received: 1 Rejections received: 61 (+10) Stories withdrawn: 1 Resubmissions: 44 New Submissions: 6 Stories out at the end of the month: 91 March was a little slow on many fronts. I finished six new pieces (all flash), and while I submitted […]

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 […]