December 2009

These statistics are all for short stories, poems, or contest entries. Book reviews are not included.

  1. Sales in December: 0
  2. Rejections in December: 0
  3. Submissions sent out in December: 0
  4. Total stories/poems/contests pending responses: 3

Nothing new or old went out in December.  I did get two surprises.  The first was an email from an Ohio museum. 

Last year I entered their poetry contest and they invited me to submit again for this year’s contest.  It’s appears to be an annual thing and though the invite was a form letter it was nice to get the email about it.  They only accept submissions through snail mail so someone had to go through the submissions and enter all of the contact information into a database.  The people running the contest were certainly thinking ahead about future contests.

The second surprising thing was I stumbled upon an editor’s post from a market I had sent a submission to in May 2009.  It’s a market specializing in letters and as far as I know of, it’s the only one of its kind.  The editor currently has 219 submissions pending reading and is caught up to April 2009.  The editor apologized for how long it is taking to read the submissions and explained when the call went out for submissions the response was overwhelming.  Top off the overwhelmed feeling with events happening in work or family and it’s easy to see why someone would not want to read submissions or run out of steam in a short while.  I suppose it was the honesty of the post that was most surprising.  It seems a lot of editors who are doing it all themselves just put their heads down and ignore anything writing/submission related to their magazine or site.  While I have very little hope of ever hearing from this editor it’s good to know my email is probably lost in the inbox somewhere.  Markets that don’t acknowledge receipt of submissions cause writers much hand wringing and worrying.

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