So, my end-of-year short story stats (assuming no surprises in the next 12 hours):
2014: 44 submitted, 1 acceptance, 20 form rejections, 14 personalised rejections, earnings $0.00. (The accepted story was paid for in the following year.)
2015: 52 submitted, 8 acceptances, 28 form rejections, 13 personalised rejections, earnings $354.09.
I have five pending submissions, of which one is a rewrite request that I hope will become another sale.
I started seriously submitting at the beginning of 2014, so that gives you some indication of where hard work and determination can take you in a couple of years. Not far, in some ways, but a long way in others.
Go, you!!!
Good for you for selling some, for sending out so many and for keeping track.
I didn’t keep track so I couldn’t say how many sent in but I know how many acceptances and one Honorable Mention.
Two are pending and if I get on the ball tonight there could be two or three more.
Wow, that seems like a really really low earning rate! Less than a dollar per hour it sounds like 🙁
I have to frame it as “people are paying me to advertise my writing”.
Also, three of the sales, including the most profitable one, are yet to be paid for.