Submission Statement: March 2022
March was a pretty good month in submission land. Here’s how it went down.
March 2022 Report Card
- Submissions Sent: 11
- Rejections: 9
- Acceptances: 2
- Publications: 2
- Further Consideration/Shortlist: 0
Like I said, pretty good month. Eleven submissions puts me at 27 (the 28th went out today) for the year, which is right where I want to be in terms of hitting my goal of 100. I landed two acceptances, one pro-paying, and had a couple of stories published. Nine rejections is a fair amount, and there were a couple of heartbreakers in there, but taken against the positives for the month, it’s not too bad.
Rejections
Nine rejections in March.
- Standard Form Rejections: 5
- Upper-Tier Form Rejections: 1
- Personal Rejections: 3
Most of the rejections were simple form rejections, and even the personal no’s weren’t too exciting. The toughest one was a shortlist rejection for a story I’ve been trying to sell for a while now. There was another rejection for an anthology I thought I had an excellent chance of cracking, but it was not to be. Anyway, both stories are out there again under consideration with other publishers.
Publications
I had two flash fiction publication last month, one with The Arcanist and one with Flash Point SF. You can read both by clicking the images/titles below.
Mixed Signals – Flash Point SF
“What You Pay For” – The Arcanist
The Rejectonomicon
The second volume of THE REJECTONOMICON, my Q&A column over at Dark Matter Magazine, went live in March. You can read it by clicking the banner below.
The questions are coming in pretty steadily, but I always need more. If you’d like to see your question appear in the May volume of THE REJECTONOMICON, then follow the guidelines below.
- Email your question to questions@rejectomancy.com.
- Put REJECTONOMICON in the subject line of the email.
- Write your question in the body of the email. Try to keep it brief.
- Please let me know if you’d like your first name published along with your question or if you’d like to remain anonymous.
- Please restrict your questions to the subjects of writing, submissions, and rejections. Those are pretty broad categories, though, and I’d be happy to field questions about my past career as a Tabletop RPG game designer/editor and media tie-in writer.
Got it? Then send me those questions!
That was March. How was your month?
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I really liked ‘What you pay for’. Especially as I studied Classics in my youth. Mixed Signals was good too – not your standard fare.
Thanks! Yeah, trying to stretch my legs a bit, narratively speaking, with some of my newer work. Glad you enjoyed them.