{"id":1442,"date":"2009-06-02T05:37:35","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T09:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=1442"},"modified":"2009-06-02T00:39:24","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T04:39:24","slug":"may-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=1442","title":{"rendered":"May 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These statistics are all for short stories, poems, or contest entries. Book reviews are not included.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Sales in May: 0<\/li>\n<li>Rejections in May:\u00c2\u00a00<\/li>\n<li>Submissions sent out in May:\u00c2\u00a03<\/li>\n<li>Total stories\/poems\/contests pending responses:\u00c2\u00a04<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Didn&#8217;t I say May had better watch out for me?\u00c2\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Back in April I submitted a poem for a contest and the results will be announced in July so I know it&#8217;s going to be a while before I hear how it did.\u00c2\u00a0 Since poetry isn&#8217;t my strong suit I&#8217;m not too worried about when I&#8217;ll hear about it.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the other pieces are short stories that have been looking for the right home.\u00c2\u00a0 The third piece I submitted is a non-fiction letter.\u00c2\u00a0 It was a response to a writing prompt centered around a resignation letter.\u00c2\u00a0 To be honest, I didn&#8217;t think there was a desire for letters but I found a market!<\/p>\n<p>One proud moment this month was not waiting until the last minute to submit my work to beat the end of the month deadline.\u00c2\u00a0 I spaced out my submissions in order to make sure they met the formatting guidelines.\u00c2\u00a0 According to the average response times from Duotrope, nothing is so terrible that a rapid rejection came within a day, and the average time for a response may be accurate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These statistics are all for short stories, poems, or contest entries. Book reviews are not included. Sales in May: 0 Rejections in May:\u00c2\u00a00 Submissions sent out in May:\u00c2\u00a03 Total stories\/poems\/contests pending responses:\u00c2\u00a04 Didn&#8217;t I say May had better watch out for me?\u00c2\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42 Back in April I submitted a poem for a contest and the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=1442\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">May 2009<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[804],"class_list":["post-1442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-status-report","tag-writing","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1442"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1505,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions\/1505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}