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By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 19 Acceptances received: 1 Rejections received: 20 Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 14 New Submissions: 0 Stories out at the end of the month: 12 Well, November is over, and I don’t have a new novel to crow about.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

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out at the beginning of the month: 11 (miscounted last month) Acceptances received: 0 Rejections received: 18 Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 21 New Submissions: 2 Stories out at the end of the month: 15 Holy cow, looking at the numbers for June, I have to say I’m a little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By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 6 Acceptances received: 1 Rejections received: 16 Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 18 New Submissions: 3 Stories out at the end of the month: 10 May has been a busy month!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 […]

2014 in review

| December 31, 2014

It’s a little quiet here today, so I’ve got time to look at 2014’s numbers! My numbers for 2014: Stories out at the end of 2013: 5 New Stories Written: 2 Old Stories Making the Rounds: 6 Total Submissions: 56 Total Rejections: 52 (+4) Total Acceptances: 2 Stories out at the end of the year: […]

August 2014 recap

| September 5, 2014

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 6 Acceptances received: 0 Rejections received: 5 Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 3 New Submissions: 0 Stories out at the end of the month: 4 So first off, the recap is a bit late. That’s because I spent the whole holiday weekend vegging out, and […]

May 2014 Recap

| June 3, 2014

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 5 Acceptances received: 1 Rejections received: 3 Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 2 New Submissions: 0 Stories out at the end of the month: 4 Another month, and another acceptance! I’m proud to announce that my short story, “Veli tis Artemidos,” will be appearing in […]

Other writing

| May 6, 2014

It occurred to me last night that while I’m not writing a lot of stories lately, I’ve been doing some other writing that might be of interest to some of my readers. The first is that I’ve been playing and running games on Storium. This is the first time I’ve done much with an online […]

March 2014 Recap

| April 1, 2014

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 5 Acceptances received: 1 Rejections received: 8 Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 8 New Submissions: 1 Stories out at the end of the month: 5 March was apparently a bit of a busy month. I finished one new story at the beginning of the month […]

2013 in Review

| December 31, 2013

It’s time for the yearly review, and this time, it’s actually happening at the end of the year, rather than early into the next year! My numbers for 2013: New Stories: 3 Old Stories: 4 Submissions: 31 Rejections: 28 (+1) Acceptances: 1 Stories out at the end of the year: 5 Breaking down the numbers: […]