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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. 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