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Milestone: 30,000 subs!
By Jed Hartman
15 June 2010, 2:30 AM
Right around the time we temporarily closed to subs in the last week of May, the Strange Horizons fiction department received our 30,000th valid submission.
As I've noted before at major milestones, there's enough inaccuracy (due to occasional invalid subs making it into the database, among other things) that I can't tell precisely which one was the 30,000th. But whichever it was, it arrived sometime in the past month.
Approximately 13,500 authors have submitted to us, so they've submitted an average of about two and a quarter stories apiece, though there's so much variation in that that the number is probably largely meaningless. (Most authors only ever send us one story, while a few have sent us over 50.)
Our first submission arrived in late June of 2000, so that's an average of a little under 9 and a half stories a day (counting only the days when we've been open to subs) since then.
It's been almost exactly a year since we hit 25,000, but we were closed to subs for 2 months of that period (at the end of 2009). So we've been averaging about 17 subs a day (counting only days we were open) since that 25,000 milestone.