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Quote from: Robert Essig on November 11, 2010, 11:23:46 PMQuote from: Kenwood on November 11, 2010, 01:46:43 PMQuote from: Robert Essig on November 11, 2010, 10:15:26 AMI'm on #44. This doesn't really resemble what it is like to be an editor. If I had to read 50 stories in two weeks I would certainly think twice about editing anthologies. It is good fun though. If there's a competition next year, I'll surely enter. I think a similar comp with flash fiction would be fun.We get nearly 100 submissions a week at Shock Totem, sometimes more. I'd gladly take 50 every two weeks. Haha.I stand corrected. Damn that's a lot of stories. My last anthology received 200 submissions in four or five months. 100 a week would melt my brain, though I would have to assume you have some slush readers.There's five of us reading, which is great, but it's still tough on all of us, especially those with kids.
Quote from: Kenwood on November 11, 2010, 01:46:43 PMQuote from: Robert Essig on November 11, 2010, 10:15:26 AMI'm on #44. This doesn't really resemble what it is like to be an editor. If I had to read 50 stories in two weeks I would certainly think twice about editing anthologies. It is good fun though. If there's a competition next year, I'll surely enter. I think a similar comp with flash fiction would be fun.We get nearly 100 submissions a week at Shock Totem, sometimes more. I'd gladly take 50 every two weeks. Haha.I stand corrected. Damn that's a lot of stories. My last anthology received 200 submissions in four or five months. 100 a week would melt my brain, though I would have to assume you have some slush readers.
Quote from: Robert Essig on November 11, 2010, 10:15:26 AMI'm on #44. This doesn't really resemble what it is like to be an editor. If I had to read 50 stories in two weeks I would certainly think twice about editing anthologies. It is good fun though. If there's a competition next year, I'll surely enter. I think a similar comp with flash fiction would be fun.We get nearly 100 submissions a week at Shock Totem, sometimes more. I'd gladly take 50 every two weeks. Haha.
I'm on #44. This doesn't really resemble what it is like to be an editor. If I had to read 50 stories in two weeks I would certainly think twice about editing anthologies. It is good fun though. If there's a competition next year, I'll surely enter. I think a similar comp with flash fiction would be fun.
That's 1200 ish submissions that have to be weeded down to 4 or 5 keepers by a process of elimination. Scary figures.
It has been terrribly entertaining and informative experience! The buildup to finding out who wrote what is exquisite! And Ed, thanks for doing it! I hope the response puts you in the mood to do it next year, as well! I don't think I would be the only one to miss the whole shebang!
Thanks for providing such a great opportunity, Ed. I for one really appreciate having a place like this to hang out with other writers who aren't teenagers and where it's possible to follow all the conversations and get to know everyone. The contest is a great way to see what other people like and don't like in the dark fiction genre.
So, to summarise, you get 100 subs a month, chasing something like 4 or 5 slots in the magazine, which comes out every three months. That's 1200 ish submissions that have to be weeded down to 4 or 5 keepers by a process of elimination. Scary figures.What would you say the majority get rejected for, and what makes those 4 or 5 stand out, Ken?