Status Update: 10/15/18

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Just a few metrics for you this morning. Of the more than 800 submissions we received during our 2018 reading period—I don’t have a solid final number at this moment, as we had some issues with submission tracking and stories being sent to old email addresses and such that we didn’t get fully nailed down until June—we are down to the following numbers.

• ACCEPTED - 52 stories
• Contract pending - 10
• Standalone novellas - 1
• Accepted for SHOWCASE - 19
• Already published - 7


• TO BE ACCEPTED - 24
• For SHOWCASE - 3


• PENDING FINAL DECISION - 37
• Standalone novellas - 4
• For SHOWCASE - 5 (probably to be accepted)
• Main sequence stories - 28

With 76 stories already accepted or tagged as to be accepted—counting those accepted for SHOWCASE separately, which we should have been doing all along—basically, we have 28 “main sequence” stories in the final bin and the space and budget to accept 14 at most.

We should be finished making our final choices by this evening.

Cheers,
~brb

P.S. I’ve had some authors ask if their story was silently rejected. I know we’re from Minnesota, The Passive-Aggressive State, but we don’t do silent rejections. If you submitted a story to us this year, you will receive a response.

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