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In 2015, I received results on January 28th, so even without a delayed anthology/gala, there's no predicting it! Aside from one outlier, my longest Q1 results arrived on April 26th (in 2016).

I'm not very active on any social media, but I do have them (and keep them updated with any important news!) Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Beth-Powers/388321331259356 (since I use FB as a page rather than a profile, it frequently won't let me do things like comment on other people's posts,...

So my goal for V38 is going to be to draft my Q2 by the Q1 deadline, and Q3 by the Q2 deadline, and so on. That should give me some extra time to get feedback and revise before the actual deadlines. I just wanted to report in that I maybe probably accomplished my first V38 goal, which was to draft ...

Submitted: 12/29

I didn't make my "draft early" goal for Q2 (at least, not yet), but I'm in for Q1!

Wulf Moon wrote:Super-duper happy for you, Beth! I know you worked for that one. One ring closer to the bullseye now! Congrats!

Thanks! I was starting to feel like I couldn't get past the HM, but this one is going to give me incentive to figure out what I did and try to do it again in the next story

After many years and many HMs, I got my first Silver Honorable Mention! I'm pretty excited about this one!

Beth, so let me get this straight . . . five years of Novembers and 3 years of Decembers? You've been submitting for eight or more years now? Wait. 2011 was a January. That makes it almost ten years or more. wotf015 wotf009 Actually, that was just the electronic submissions (I didn't keep track of ...

I once got a Q4 response on October 30th (in 2013)! But before you twitch, I've also gotten a Q4 response on January 4th (in 2011, a different judge, and the early days of online submissions), but most of them have been in November (5 of them) and a few in December (3 of them). Last year, it was nea...

I've been wondering this about Deep Magic too. Since I first learned of it here on the WoTF forum I wondered if anyone here knows much about it and response times etc. Been watching progress on Submission Grinder but I know better than to put too many hopes on what I see there :) I've had responses...

Honorable Mention for me!

Hi Beth. I'm new to the forums and curious if the response data you mentioned is something I'm also supposed to be keeping track of for myself? Hi mandycorine! Welcome to the forum! The response data I mentioned is just me keeping track of various statistics related to my submissions (here and else...

I looked back over my Q3 response data, and I thought it was weird that in 10 years of electronic submissions, I've only ever gotten results in October once (2 in August (!), 5 in September, and 2 in November). I hope this year adds to that October count!

I've always tried to focus on making my writing goals things that I can control (writing and submitting), rather than the things that I can't (acceptances, winning, etc.), but I like the idea of thinking about what I can do that could potentially affect the outcome in a positive way. I haven't misse...

Submitted 9/29
Silver HM 11/4

I submitted earlier today!

R for me as well.

R for me, which is disappointing because I actually wrote this one before the last day of the quarter (first time I've done that in probably years!) and I had high hopes for it...

I've been submitting since the days of paper subs, so I have lots of data to draw from wotf008 Here's my weekday stats: Monday = 8 Tuesday = 8 Wednesday = 10 Thursday = 7 Friday = 4 Saturday = 2 Sunday = 0 Of my nine Q2 submissions, 5 have received responses in July (the rest were May and June). Mos...

I'm in for this quarter--I submitted a couple of days ago on 6/29.

Submitted 6/29

Honorable Mention 10/5

R for me--I have higher hopes for my Q2 submission!

Rejection for me

I'm in with my 50th entry!

Happy to help!

Alex, Beth, I had not really thought about the possibility of losing my data. I may need to have a backup. I used to have a spreadsheet until I found Grinder. Had Duotrope for a while but never really used it--I just wanted to see what it was like. I like Grinder better. Particularly the chart and ...

I know a pro published writer who doesn't use Grinder or Duotrope and have seen blog posts of others who use their own system to track submissions and rejections. I have my own system so even if I used Grinder or Duotrope to find markets, I probably wouldn't use them for tracking. I don't trust onl...

I forgot to report in when I submitted (December 29th), but I just checked and this was my 49th submission to the contest!!! (48 of them have been consecutive--I haven't missed a quarter since the end of 2007!) That's a great record of persistence, Beth! I think you're due! Cheers to all! Moon Than...

Smashwords is having an End of Year Sale, and even though the year has ended, the sale continues until 11:59pm PT on January 1st. You can get my collection Sorcery & Widgets for half off until the sale ends, and I'm sure there are lots of other good deals as well!