Author Archives: Brian Lewis, Editor-in-Chief

Weekly Statistics for August 16, 2014

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Submissions received during the week ending 2014-08-16
Total: 48 | Max: 11 | Average: 6.86

Categories for submissions received during the week ending 2014-08-16
Poetry: 10 | Prose: 38

Categories for all submissions as of 2014-08-16
Total: 3498 | Poetry: 1090 | Prose: 2408

Status of all submissions as of 2014-08-16
New: 275 | In Progress: 852 | Withdrawn: 420 | Declined: 1801 | Accepted: 161

Change since last week
New: +14 | In Progress: +16 | Withdrawn: +10 | Declined: +10 | Accepted: +1

Have you submitted to Spark? One of the best ways to get a feel for what a market might publish is to see what they’ve published in the past. This shouldn’t be prohibitive! As an aid in the submission process and as our “Thank You” for considering us a potential home for your writing, please use the code SPARK-SUB-2014Q3 to get the eBook of any volume for just $2 (or get 22% off any print copy). Redeem the code during checkout at store.sparkanthology.org.

Weekly Statistics for August 9, 2014

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Submissions received during the week ending 2014-08-09
Total: 51 | Max: 11 | Average: 7.29

Categories for submissions received during the week ending 2014-08-09
Poetry: 13 | Prose: 38

Categories for all submissions as of 2014-08-09
Total: 3450 | Poetry: 1080 | Prose: 2370

Status of all submissions as of 2014-08-09
New: 261 | In Progress: 836 | Withdrawn: 410 | Declined: 1791 | Accepted: 160

Change since last week
New: +4 | In Progress: +21 | Withdrawn: +12 | Declined: +5 | Accepted: 5

Have you submitted to Spark? One of the best ways to get a feel for what a market might publish is to see what they’ve published in the past. This shouldn’t be prohibitive! As an aid in the submission process and as our “Thank You” for considering us a potential home for your writing, please use the code SPARK-SUB-2014Q3 to get the eBook of any volume for just $2 (or get 22% off any print copy). Redeem the code during checkout at store.sparkanthology.org.

Weekly Statistics for August 2, 2014

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Submissions received during the week ending 2014-08-02
Total: 90 | Max: 25 | Average: 12.86

Categories for submissions received during the week ending 2014-08-02
Poetry: 40 | Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction: 50

Categories for all submissions as of 2014-08-02
Total: 3399 | Poetry: 1067 | Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction: 2332

Status of all submissions as of 2014-08-02
New: 257 | In Progress: 815 | Withdrawn: 398 | Declined: 1786 | Accepted: 155

Change since last week
New: -28 | In Progress: +98 | Withdrawn: +11 | Declined: +8 | Accepted: 0

Have you submitted to Spark? One of the best ways to get a feel for what a market might publish is to see what they’ve published in the past. This shouldn’t be prohibitive! As an aid in the submission process and as our “Thank You” for considering us a potential home for your writing, please use the code SPARK-SUB-2014Q3 to get the eBook of any volume for just $2 (or get 22% off any print copy). Redeem the code during checkout at store.sparkanthology.org.

Pearls Before Swine

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What should you do if you’ve sent out your great writing and an editor has the gall to reject it? How do you respond when you realize you’ve cast your pearls before swine?

Writer Liaison George Wells offers some experience-based insight on responding to rejection in his new blog post. Read the whole thing here. (Be sure to click through to the whole article; if you stop with this excerpt you’re gonna get the wrong idea.)

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It doesn’t mean you’re a total loser. It doesn’t mean you’re a total loser.

Years ago, I applied to Rivoli, a four-star restaurant in Albany, California.  Of course, I had delivered my résumé to several restaurants, but I was very interested in this job, as I had eaten there several times, and it was genuinely deserving of its reputation as one of the finest Mediterranean restaurants in the East Bay.

The chef thanked me for my interest, but told me that she had decided not to offer me the job at the time.  Of course, I had to respond.

Dear Chef Wendy,

You’re an idiot.  If you can’t see the value I would bring to your third-rate eatery, maybe you should go back to cooking school.

At any rate, I was hired at Bucci’s, so obviously they know quality when they see it.

Good luck with your little Italian chuck wagon.

Sincerely,

George Wells

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Weekly Statistics for July 26, 2014

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Submissions received during the week ending 2014-07-26
Total: 74 | Max: 17 | Average: 10.57

Categories for submissions received during the week ending 2014-07-26
Poetry: 20 | Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction: 54

Categories for all submissions as of 2014-07-26
Total: 3309 | Poetry: 1027| Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction: 2282

Status of all submissions as of 2014-07-26
New: 285 | In Progress: 717 | Withdrawn: 387| Declined: 1778 | Accepted: 155

Change since last week
New: +8 | In Progress: +45 | Withdrawn: +6 | Declined: +15 | Accepted: +1

Have you submitted to Spark? One of the best ways to get a feel for what a market might publish is to see what they’ve published in the past. This shouldn’t be prohibitive! As an aid in the submission process and as our “Thank You” for considering us a potential home for your writing, please use the code SPARK-SUB-2014Q3 to get the eBook of any volume for just $2 (or get 22% off any print copy). Redeem the code during checkout at store.sparkanthology.org.

Weekly Statistics for July 19, 2014

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Submissions received during the week ending 2014-07-19
Total: 53 | Max: 14 | Average: 7.57

Categories for submissions received during the week ending 2014-07-19
Poetry: 17 | Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction: 35

Categories for all submissions as of 2014-07-19
Total: 3235 | Poetry: 1007 | Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction: 2228

Status of all submissions as of 2014-07-19
New: 277 | In Progress: 672 | Withdrawn: 381 | Declined: 1764 | Accepted: 154

Change since last week
New: -15 | In Progress: +49 | Withdrawn: +6 | Declined: +8 | Accepted: +4

Have you submitted to Spark? One of the best ways to get a feel for what a market might publish is to see what they’ve published in the past. This shouldn’t be prohibitive! As an aid in the submission process and as our “Thank You” for considering us a potential home for your writing, please use the code SPARK-SUB-2014Q3 to get the eBook of any volume for just $2 (or get 22% of any print copy). Redeem the code during checkout at store.sparkanthology.org.

Weekly Statistics for July 12, 2014

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Submissions received during the week ending 2014-07-12
Total: 45 | Max: 13 | Average: 6.43

Categories for submissions received during the week ending 2014-07-12
Poetry: 3 | Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction: 42

Categories for all submissions as of 2014-07-12
Total: 3183 | Poetry: 990 | Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction: 2193

Status of all submissions as of 2014-07-12
New: 292 | In Progress: 623 | Withdrawn: 375 | Declined: 1756 | Accepted: 150

Change since last week
New: +33 | In Progress: -6 | Withdrawn: +3 | Declined: +13 | Accepted: +2

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Weekly Statistics for July 5, 2014

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Submissions received during the week ending 2014-07-05
Total: 53 | Max: 16 | Average: 7.57

Categories for submissions received during the week ending 2014-07-05
Poetry: 31 | Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction: 22

Categories for all submissions as of 2014-07-05
Total: 3138 | Poetry: 987 | Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction: 2151

Status of all submissions as of 2014-07-05
New: 259 | In Progress: 629 | Withdrawn: 372 | Declined: 1743 | Accepted: 148

Change since last week
New: -9 | In Progress: +44 | Withdrawn: +11 | Declined: +5 | Accepted: +2

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