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To commemorate the occasion, I've decided to post all sorts of meaningless statistics for everyone to drool and/or cringe over. So, shall we?
1)Total # of Stories and Pieces of Miscellanea Processed: 2222
2) Total # of Stories Passed up the Editorial Ladder: 198
3) Total # of Automatic Passes: 151
4) Total # of Slush Survivors: 47
5) Total # of Stories Accepted for Publication: 35 (Please note the latest batch has yet to be passed along to Shawna, and that Shawna has not finished going through the previous batch, so there should be a few more purchases for pieces sent along in the past year).
6) Total # of Automatic Passes Accepted for Publication: 26
7) Total # of Slush Survivors Accepted for Publication: 9
8) Total # of Slush Survivors (from my reign) to See Publication: 2
9) Total # of Rejections (from either me or Shawna): 2155 (this accounts for those stories mentioned in point 5).
10) Total # of YFOPS (from either me or Shawna): Sorry, way too lazy to dig up the #'s on this one. Maybe next year. Best guess: About 225
11) Estimated total # of BFODS: 1930
12) Average # of submissions per month: About 185
13) # of Slush Transfers (including my initial trial-run batch, which consisted of 97 pieces): 9
14) Average # of Submissions Per Slush Transfer: About 247
15) Total # of angry writer letters: 2 (yes, that's it)
16) Total pieces of fan mail to the Slushmaster: 7
17) Total pieces of fan mail to Shawna: These files are sealed. :)
Let year two begin!
Comments
And wow. If my math is right, slush survivors have a slightly higher rate of acceptance than automatic passes. Fascinating....
That's a lot of stories.
Thanks for the behind the scenes info!
That's like one of those statistically meaningless amounts...
Dang...
Mallory
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Congrats!
35 acceptances out of 2222 submissions: the legendary 1.5%!
9 newbie acceptances out of 2071 newbie submissions: less than half a percent. Still, seems about right to me. Surely some of those 2071 will get published elsewhere.
Make JJA give similar stats for F&SF. We wanna know! I'm such a stat-hound.
15) Total # of angry writer letters: 2 (yes, that's it)
-->Come on people, we can do better than this! Let's make sure he gets at least 4 angry letters next year!
Any chance of us getting selected excerpts or at least a precis of the angry letters? I confess, other people's unjustified ire amuses me.
And yes, I do expect to be at KGB next week, but of course I expected to be there last month, so who the heck knows.
We'll gang up on JJA together at KGB, put on a little peer pressure. ;)
And yes, some of these stories do get published elsewhere. So far, I know of stories that I've rejected that ended up getting accepted by Fantasy Magazine & Shimmer. Shawna also rejected a piece that was subsequently accepted by Ellen Datlow for a forthcoming anthology (not too shabby). Most, however, probably don't go on to publish in any venue of note.
As to the angry writer letters, one was an author threatening to contact the BBB if he didn't hear back about his manuscript. Not only did he send this letter to the wrong address, but I had rejected it six months earlier. The other dude is a long story. I'll get into it another time . . .