{"id":3867,"date":"2007-04-02T11:18:46","date_gmt":"2007-04-02T18:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2007\/04\/02\/3867.html"},"modified":"2007-04-02T11:18:46","modified_gmt":"2007-04-02T18:18:46","slug":"submission-update-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2007\/04\/02\/submission-update-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Submission update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <cite>Strange Horizons<\/cite> fiction department has now responded to all stories submitted before 3 February 2007; if you or anyone you know sent us a story before that date and haven't heard back from us, please query.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, this applies only to the fiction department.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, the deluge continues: we received 336 stories in March, making it our fourth-highest-volume month ever (and only a few subs short of being second-highest). That's up 17% over last March.  Still, average stories per day are slightly down from February, so at least volume-per-day isn't going up.<\/p>\n<p>So I was hoping that maybe April would settle down a little, volume-wise, but I had forgotten all about the traditional flood of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2006\/04\/02\/3468.html\">themed April Fool's Day submissions<\/a>. We ended up with 21 submissions yesterday; I think about 8 of those were probably part of what one author called \"the celebratory slushbomb.\"  (And another one or two came in after midnight EST.)<\/p>\n<p>I'm reminded of the famous lines from Chaucer:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"stanza\">\n<p>Whan that Aprill, with his subbes soote<\/p>\n<p>The brayns of editors hath perced to the roote...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(I think that was from Chaucer's \"The Zombie Editor's Tale.\")<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Strange Horizons fiction department has now responded to all stories submitted before 3 February 2007; if you or anyone&#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-3867","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\/3867","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=3867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}