I'll do my end-of-year stats sometime soonish, but for now, just wanted to mention that we closed to subs shortly after midnight (US Eastern time) on Wednesday night, as planned.<\/p>\n
We received 396 submissions in October, including 3 that came in just after the midnight deadline but before I managed to get the \"we're closed\" notice in place. After a certain amount of waffling, we decided to allow those three and to count them as part of October's total. It's less than 1% of the total, so it shouldn't throw my stats off too badly. Still, don't count on us making the same decision for late submissions for future closures.<\/p>\n
Anyway, 396 subs puts this past month comfortably in second place on the list of highest volume months--that's 20 subs higher than the previous second-place month, this past June, which had 373. But October's total is still about 100 subs short of this past January's record (492), and I expect this coming January will probably bring us about 600 subs.<\/p>\n
But enough on stats; like I said, more of those coming soon. For now, the important thing is this:<\/p>\n
We won't have any more submissions coming in for two months!<\/p>\n
I'm pretty excited about that.<\/p>\n
We still have a fair bit of work to do, of course--reading and responding to everything that came in in October. But I'm hoping we'll be done with all that well before the end of November, and then there'll be a few weeks of no magazine duties but editing. Plus assorted administrative and programming tasks that I haven't had time or energy for lately.<\/p>\n
Last year, we barely managed to finish responding to November's subs before January's deluge hit. It will be very very nice to have some real time off this year.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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