Query/Submission Statement: July 2023

Been a while since I’ve done one of these, mostly because I haven’t been submitting a lot of short stores. What I have been doing, though, is sending out agent queries for my novel SECOND DAWN. Those are submissions, too, right? 🙂

Okay, first up let’s do short story submissions.

July 2023 Submission Report Card

• Submissions Sent: 6
• Rejections: 5
• No Response: 0
• Acceptances: 0
• Further Consideration/Shortlist: 0
• Withdrawals: 0

I’m not exactly killing it on the short story front in 2023. I’ve sent only 24 total submissions, which has netted me a grand total of 3 acceptances. I’m okay with that, though, as my focus has shifted from short story submissions to query submissions. I’m sure I’ll send more short story subs this year, and if I can get to fifty total subs, that would be fine by me.

July 2023 Query Report Card

• Queries Sent: 11
• Rejections: 2
• CNR: 1
• Full/Partial Request: 1

This total includes June and July, and as you can see, I’ve been a bit busier here. I’ve sent out eleven queries so far and received a pair of form rejections and closed one query for nonresponse. The big news is I received a full manuscript request from a very good agent, and that’s still pending. However that turns out, though, it was a great boost to my confidence to get an FMR right out of the gate. If you’d like more details on my rejections and other query-related stuff, I’ve been posting about it in a new series called Query Quest. Links below.

• Query Quest: A New Rejection Frontier
• Query Quest: Baby’s First Query Rejection
• Query Quest: Agent Query Checklist Part 1
• Query Quest: Rejection #2
• Query Quest: What Are My Chances?
• Query Quest: Full Manuscript Request

Anyway, that was my July. How was yours?