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   William Vetter to C. E. Gee   
   Re: SF Short story writers might want to   
   18 Jun 15 09:30:54   
   
   From: mdhangton@gmail.com   
      
   C. E. Gee wrote:   
   > On Wednesday, June 17, 2015 at 6:45:26 PM UTC-7, William Vetter wrote:   
   >> I looked at this last week, because you said you liked it.  One of   
   >> those sites that logs submission times said 35% of submissions are   
   >> accepted.  I have something I wrote which I think has zero chance of   
   >> getting bought by one of these guys (10k words, about humans as pets),   
   >> so I thought maybe I might as well start there.  Do you like this   
   >> ezine?   
   >   
   > I very much like PERIHELION as they print much "hard" Science Fiction.   
   >   
   > I can't believe that any SF mag accepts 35% of submissions.  Editors and   
      
   Submission Grinder's statistics say that it's 1/3rd acceptance for this   
   zine (The data set was around 100).  That's where I got that number.   
      
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