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   William Vetter to William Vetter   
   Re: SF Short story writers might want to   
   19 Jun 15 22:49:51   
   
   From: mdhangton@gmail.com   
      
   William Vetter wrote:   
   > 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 sample size was around 100).  That's where I got that number.   
      
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