Final submission count for January: 491 legitimate subs. Our previous highest-volume month was January of 2005, with 342 subs. That's a more than 40% increase. Yikes.<\/p>\n
I had a whole rant here about how annoying it is when authors don't read the brief, easily scannable bullet points at the top of our fiction submission form<\/a>, and especially when they don't read our cover letter guidelines<\/a>; but it was really just like all the other rants you've read from editors about authors not reading guidelines, and anyway I know that those of you reading this are not the people who aren't reading the instructions, so it's silly for me to rant about it to you.<\/p>\n And as I noted at the end of the now-deleted rant, the fact that cover letters are my biggest complaint is a clear sign of just how much better the submission form has made things; we no longer have to deal with most of the really annoying formatting-related problems that used to appear in stories. So I'll stop complaining and just go to work.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Final submission count for January: 491 legitimate subs. Our previous highest-volume month was January of 2005, with 342 subs. That’s…<\/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-3802","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\/3802","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=3802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}