From: mdhangton@gmail.com   
      
   On Saturday, March 7, 2015 at 11:39:22 AM UTC-5, C. E. Gee wrote:   
   > The only contact I have with other SF writers is here (Google Groups) and   
   the Facebook Science Fiction writers group.   
   >    
   > I'm very curious about some quantifiable data involving a comparison   
   involving other SF short story authors and myself.   
   >    
   > Currently, I have 11 short stories submitted to periodicals.  That seems to   
   me to be a bit much.  However, most of said stories are flash fiction.   
      
   I hope you didn't submit them all to the same magazine at once.   
   >    
   > Do any other writers have that many stories being considered for   
   publication????   
      
   I don't write so much short fiction these days that I should have more than   
   one or two around.   
   >    
   > A tad over 40% of my stories get published.  Again, I'd like to get a feel   
   on how I'm doing in comparison to others.   
      
   Usually I'd send them to maybe 3 prozines that I'd like to see them in, or   
   that I thought they were appropriate for, then lose heart and forget them.    
   Sometimes, if somebody bashed me in a workshop that the female characters were   
   sexist or whatever, I'd    
   figure it was hopeless and never submit them.   
   >    
   > And the most rejections I've received on a story before it was finally   
   published was 19!!!!!  The least (3) was one.  Again, your experiences?   
   >    
   > Analog once held on to one of my stories for seven months before rejecting   
   it!   
   > Anyone else have such an experience?   
      
   Sometimes they hold onto it longer when it's in the A-pile, and then they give   
   you some personal rejection letter where you can tell they've read all or most   
   of it.  When Stanley Schmidt did that to me once, the return envelope was   
   postmarked in    
   Westchester, where the others were postmarked in Manhattan.   
      
   I've sent things to small press magazines that were printed on paper during   
   the 90's and they'd stop publishing issues and hold the ms. for a year, but I   
   think that kind of thing is all e-zine now.   
      
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