Submission milestone and stats
1 June 2004, 10:44 AM
As of sometime in the past week, we've received over 8000 submissions since we started taking subs, by about 3500 different authors.
Interesting coincidence: in three of the last four months, we've received exactly 242 submissions. (April was unaccountably low-volume, with only about 190.) Averaging around 7 or 8 a day.
Our response time continues to hover around 24 days, though it'll probably temporarily go up a bit soon, as we've gotten a little behind in our reading due to WisCon.
So far this year, about 33% of our submissions have been by women, about 62% by men, and about 5% by authors whose gender I'm unsure of. The breakdown over the lifetime of the magazine is quite close to that: 32% by women, 60% by men, 8% unknown.
Comments
Where are the 52 missing April submissions???
Posted by: David Moles (mail) (web) | June 1, 2004 5:56 PM
It is possible that the slew of monkey stories we received on April 1 caused some kind of psychic drain on the communal well of creativity, so that there was only so much Weird Story Idea to go around for the rest of the month.
I am open to other possible explanations.
Posted by: Karen (mail) | June 1, 2004 9:32 PM