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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the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 86 Acceptances received: 2 Rejections received: 49 (+1) Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 77 New Submissions: 28 Stories out at the end of the month: 112 December was a very productive month for me.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numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 100 Acceptances received: 3 Rejections received: 55 (+1) Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 44 New Submissions: 2 Stories out at the end of the month: 86 November was a busy month with NaNoWriMo, and unsurprisingly, my submissions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numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 107 Acceptances received: 3 Rejections received: 83 (+10) Stories withdrawn: 1 Resubmissions: 86 New Submissions: 6 Stories out at the end of the month: 100 Pretty good numbers this month, with a bunch more submissions and some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numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 139 Acceptances received: 0 Rejections received: 78 (+11) Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 51 New Submissions: 4 Stories out at the end of the month: 107 A slightly slower month on the submissions and writing fronts, mainly because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numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 107 Acceptances received: 0 Rejections received: 46 (+3) Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 71 New Submissions: 11 Stories out at the end of the month: 139 The numbers this month are definitely going up in terms of submissions, but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 […]

July 2023 Recap

| August 3, 2023

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 102 Acceptances received: 3 Rejections received: 50 (+5) Stories withdrawn: 1 Resubmissions: 38 New Submissions: 26 Stories out at the end of the month: 107 The numbers are a bit all over the place this month, though the overall top and bottom line seem […]

June 2023 Recap!

| July 4, 2023

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 76 Acceptances received: 0 Rejections received: 35 Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 55 New Submissions: 7 Stories out at the end of the month: 102 The numbers are slowly ramping up toward normal this month. No acceptances, but I completed and submitted seven new pieces: […]

May 2023 Recap!

| June 6, 2023

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 88 Acceptances received: 2 Rejections received: 44 (1 + 6) Stories withdrawn: 1 Resubmissions: 38 New Submissions: 4 Stories out at the end of the month: 76 The numbers for May are unsurprisingly on the lower side, unsurprisingly because I took half the month […]

April 2023 Recap!

| May 2, 2023

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 83 Acceptances received: 3 Rejections received: 56 (+2) Stories withdrawn: 1 Resubmissions: 54 New Submissions: 11 Stories out at the end of the month: 88 Pretty decent numbers for this month, especially on the acceptances and writing new stuff fronts! I’ve signed the contracts […]