Recent Entries

Stats: February submission count

by Jed Hartman

01 March 2010

In February, we received 454 valid submissions, an average of a little over 16 submissions a day. That's remarkably close to the 455 submissions we received in February 2009. I was expecting volume to go up by 10% to 20%...

How do you like the new submission tracking system?

by Jed Hartman

01 February 2010

This year, we've implemented a new system that lets you get your story's status by going to a particular web page. (The URL is in the autoresponse email.) It occurs to me that I haven't yet heard much feedback about...

Stats: Final January submission count

by Jed Hartman

01 February 2010

We ended the month with 780 valid submissions, an average of a little over 25 submissions a day. Our previous highest-volume month was January of 2009, with 637 submissions. So despite the submission cap, volume went up by over 20%....

Stats: January submission count so far

by Jed Hartman

24 January 2010

Here at the end of the third full week of submissions, we've received a total of 605 submissions so far this year. (The first two full weeks—January 3–9 and January 10–16—were our highest-volume weeks ever, at 201 and 185 submissions,...

Stats: Submission volume by time of day

by Jed Hartman

19 January 2010

For those of you who like statistics, here's a graph of the number of total submissions in each hour of the day, aggregated across the first fourteen days of 2010. For example, the first bar of the graph shows that...

Change of readers

by Jed Hartman

18 January 2010

Ever since late 2008, the SH fiction department has had three Editorial Assistants whose job was to read a bunch of the incoming stories and decide whether to pass them along to us fiction editors. They've collectively made the lives...

Fiction-submission volume-cap status update

by Jed Hartman

18 January 2010

As many of you know, the SH fiction department instituted a cap on number of submissions per day this year. From our perspective, it's been quite successful. In past years, when we've reopened to submissions after a temporary closure, we've...

Welcome to the new blog!

by Jed Hartman

17 January 2010

Since late 2001, I've been posting occasional blog entries about the Strange Horizons fiction department in my personal blog. I've posted status updates, statistical summaries, advice and recommendations for writers, relevant links, and general news. (If you want to see...