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Jay Lake
Date: 2005-12-30 13:25
Subject: Year-End Stats
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Production

26 new stories written (5 collaborations, 63,200 words)
4 novel synopses (15,300 words)
9 nonfiction written and sold (8 to IROSF with [info]specficrider, plus my essay in Horror: Another Best 100, ca. 13,000 words total)
2 new (short) novels written (110,000 words)
1 novel-in-progress (ca. 10,000 words to date)
1 novel revision (ca. 5,000 new words)

Total new words: ca. 216,500 (not counting blogging or words revising)

Update: [info]specficrider points out I've missed some thousands of words on an ongoing collaborative project which we've completed in distinct pieces (one portion was a sale to Realms of Fantasy) -- that would add a handful of new stories written and 10,000-20,000 words to my annual total.

Sales and Marketing

144 stories submitted (not counting novels, synopses, nonfiction or reprint submissions)
101 stories rejected
25 stories sold (7 collaborations, 112,000 words) [ I miscounted the Horror essay as a fiction sale in my earlier post ]
1 finished novel sold (Rocket Science, 55,000 words)
1 novel sold on proposal (Trial of Flowers, ca. 90,000 words to be finished by February)

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Ruth Nestvold
User: [info]specficrider
Date: 2005-12-30 21:57 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)

Okay, if I have 7 collabs in new stories, then I think you have at least that many ... unless we're counting "new" different ...

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Steve
User: [info]mroctober
Date: 2005-12-30 22:01 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)

::gasps:: You're inhuman!

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Gary Emenitove
User: [info]garyomaha
Date: 2005-12-30 22:51 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)

Then, what did you do in February?

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karindira
User: [info]karindira
Date: 2005-12-30 23:51 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)

Maybe we need to ask what he did on the seventh day?

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Jay Lake
User: [info]jaylake
Date: 2005-12-31 00:59 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)

I rested of course.

PS, sold another story today.

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karindira
User: [info]karindira
Date: 2005-12-31 20:45 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)

Of course you did.

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Lawrence M. Schoen
User: [info]klingonguy
Date: 2005-12-31 01:45 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)

you seem to have left off editing stats. tsk tsk.

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User: (Anonymous)
Date: 2006-01-01 13:13 (UTC)
Subject: Tracking

What do you use to track your submissions? I've tried lots of home-brewed databases and spreadsheets and have now resorted to one big plain text file, but then my volume is nowhere near yours.

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Jay Lake
User: [info]jaylake
Date: 2006-01-01 18:02 (UTC)
Subject: Re: Tracking

I use my marketing spreadsheet, linked to at:

http://www.jlake.com/resources/marketing_spreadsheet_blank.xls

It has two panes, one for activity (ie, drafts, sendouts, responses), the other for market tracking. These panes cross-reference manually. The activity pane is also my work diary if I am ever audited by the IRS, while the market tracker keeps me from double submitting, resubmitting, and other such sins.

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