{"id":229,"date":"2008-09-02T01:31:09","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T06:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=229"},"modified":"2009-03-01T19:00:42","modified_gmt":"2009-03-02T00:00:42","slug":"august-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=229","title":{"rendered":"August 2008"},"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 August: 0<\/li>\n<li>Rejections in August:\u00c2\u00a04<\/li>\n<li>Submissions sent out in August:\u00c2\u00a03<\/li>\n<li>Total stories\/poems pending responses: 3<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Pending responses include\u00c2\u00a0a drabble under consideration at one market and two short stories at two different markets.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0I don&#8217;t do simultaneous submissions very often.\u00c2\u00a0 The drabble has been out the longest.<\/p>\n<p>At this point I don&#8217;t think the poems I sent out in January are going to get a response.\u00c2\u00a0 I went ahead and put them down as assumed rejections in Duotrope.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While there were no acceptances this month I feel it was a good month for the following reasons:\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One of my submissions had the nicest personal rejection I&#8217;ve ever received.\u00c2\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>I learned how to write a query letter which resulted in my first freelance query to a magazine.\u00c2\u00a0 It was ultimately rejected because they wanted more lead time on the event.\u00c2\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Even though I&#8217;ve not published a book I also learned what a sell sheet is and how to create one.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Basically it has all of the ordering information for a book on it.\u00c2\u00a0 It makes it easy for book clubs, libraries and others to order your book because all of the information is right there.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I suspect September is going to start the ramp up to my busy November.\u00c2\u00a0 In September is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfriendamysblog.com\/2008\/08\/book-blogger-appreciation-week.html\" target=\"_blank\">Book Blogger Appreciation Week<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I have a book review due before December I&#8217;d like to finish before things get really busy.\u00c2\u00a0 October\u00c2\u00a0brings a mini-vacation, out of town visitors, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freewebs.com\/themuseonlinewritersconference\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Muse Online Writing Conference<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0and prep for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanowrimo.org\" target=\"_blank\">NaNoWriMo<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 November will be my newest attempt at another novel.\u00c2\u00a0 In addition to <em>More Than Blue<\/em> I have two unfinished novels.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m hoping November will bring another completed first draft.<\/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 August: 0 Rejections in August:\u00c2\u00a04 Submissions sent out in August:\u00c2\u00a03 Total stories\/poems pending responses: 3 Pending responses include\u00c2\u00a0a drabble under consideration at one market and two short stories at two different markets.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0I don&#8217;t do simultaneous submissions very&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=229\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">August 2008<\/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-229","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\/229","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=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}