{"id":3689,"date":"2006-10-01T00:32:33","date_gmt":"2006-10-01T07:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2006\/10\/01\/3689.html"},"modified":"2006-10-01T00:32:33","modified_gmt":"2006-10-01T07:32:33","slug":"submission-volume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2006\/10\/01\/submission-volume\/","title":{"rendered":"Submission volume"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For the first five months of this year, submission volume each month at <cite>Strange Horizons<\/cite> almost exactly matched submission volume in the same month the previous year. Specifically: on average, a given month from January to May of 2006 brought us five stories less than the same month in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>But in the past four months (June through September), submission volume each month has averaged about <em>forty<\/em> stories <em>more<\/em> than the same month in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>And instead of our usual summer lull in volume, we've had a summer boom. To measure from a different direction, our average volume from February through May this year was about 270 stories\/month, while our average volume from June through September was about 310 stories\/month.<\/p>\n<p>What happened? Well, I can't be entirely certain, but the boom started in mid-June--just about the same time that we made our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/guidelines\/submit-fiction.shtml\">RTF submission form<\/a> the official preferred way to submit.<\/p>\n<p>Correlation doesn't prove causality; June was also roughly when various of the latest crop of year's-best volumes started appearing with reprints of our stories in them, for example.  But I'm pretty sure that the RTF form was the most relevant change.<\/p>\n<p>In some sense, the volume change is not really a big change.  A 15% volume increase means that each of us three editors has about three stories more to read per week--it was about 21 per week per editor earlier this year, and now it's about 24.<\/p>\n<p>But it's still a little startling to be, for the first time, consistently getting over 300 stories a month.<\/p>\n<p>Heh--I see from looking at an old journal entry of mine that it took me nearly three years from the time I acquired the RTF-to-text conversion code to the time I implemented the submission form. Slow Jed. Clearly we need a tools person on staff.  (Let's not talk about how long I've been planning to implement the system to generate RTF files for use at Fictionwise.)<\/p>\n<p>I do like the new system, though; despite increased volume, I wouldn't go back.<\/p>\n<p>In other submission-related news, we'll be receiving our 15,000th submission sometime in the next day or two.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first five months of this year, submission volume each month at Strange Horizons almost exactly matched submission volume&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strange-horizons"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}