These statistics are all for short stories, poems, or contest entries. Book reviews are not included.<\/p>\n
Nothing new or old went out in December.\u00c2\u00a0 I did get two surprises.\u00c2\u00a0 The first was an email from an Ohio museum.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Last year I entered their poetry contest and they invited me to submit again for this year’s contest.\u00c2\u00a0 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.\u00c2\u00a0 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.\u00c2\u00a0 The people running the contest were certainly thinking ahead about future contests.<\/p>\n
The second surprising thing was\u00c2\u00a0I stumbled upon an editor’s\u00c2\u00a0post from a market I had sent a submission to in May 2009.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a market specializing in letters and as far as I know of, it’s the only one of its kind.\u00c2\u00a0 The editor currently has 219 submissions pending reading and is caught up to April 2009.\u00c2\u00a0 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.\u00c2\u00a0 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.\u00c2\u00a0 I suppose it was the honesty of the post that was most surprising.\u00c2\u00a0 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.\u00c2\u00a0 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.\u00c2\u00a0 Markets that don’t acknowledge receipt of submissions cause writers much hand wringing and worrying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
These statistics are all for short stories, poems, or contest entries. Book reviews are not included. Sales in December: 0 Rejections in December:\u00c2\u00a00 Submissions sent out in December:\u00c2\u00a00 Total stories\/poems\/contests pending responses:\u00c2\u00a03 Nothing new or old went out in December.\u00c2\u00a0 I did get two surprises.\u00c2\u00a0 The first was an email from an Ohio museum.\u00c2\u00a0 Last… Continue reading December 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-2095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-status-report","tag-writing","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t