Fantasy Magazine is #1

[j_cheney]

....on the ra_log

As a maintainer, I get to look at the tags by usage if I so choose. Do you want to know which pubs get the most traffic from us?

In order of submissions reported by RALOGers, the top 10 (since March 2008):
1) Fantasy Magazine* (56)
2) Strange Horizons* (47)
3) A.S.I.M. (41)
4) F&SF* (38)
5) Lone Star Stories (37)
6) JBU* (36)
7) Clarkesworld* (34)
7) Weird Tales (34)
9) IGMS* (26)
9) Beneath Ceaseless Skies (26)
11) Asimov's* (25)
11) Abyss & Apex (25)

So, these are the mags our RALOGers favor. How very interesting.

Some other interesting points from the list...

SFWA 'approved' markets not in the top ten:
13) Realms of Fantasy* (20)
22) WOTF* (10)
Analog* (7)
Chizine* (7)
Pedestal* (7) (SBT just added one)
Brutarian* (5)
Cosmos* (4)
Cemeterey Dance* (3)

Some interesting anthologies (various iterations, though)
Clockwork Phoenix (15)
Sword & Sorceress (13)
Polyphony (8)
Wolfsongs (2)
Warrior Wisewoman (1)
(I'd heard that CP got a gazillion subs last time...this seems to bear that out)

*SFWA Pro Approved Market. Yes, I'm putting one on Fantasy now, since they have their info turned in to SFWA. This doesn't, sadly, retroactively affect the stories I've sold there.

Comments

[wistling.livejournal.com]

Dunno if WOTF is indicative. Some of us who use this group have invalidated ourselves from the running.

[aliettedb.livejournal.com]

Cosmos is I think clogged, last time I checked (it was a while ago).
Chizine has fairly restrictive wordcounts and a fairly restrictive genre (Clarkesworld, for instance, takes both fantasy, horror and SF; Chizine just takes horror; and judging from where Cemetery Dance is on the list, I suspect more of us write SF & F than horror).

(my totally random explanation :) )

[melissajm.livejournal.com]

Interesting!

[grayrose76.livejournal.com]

Am I missing something? Did Fantasy go pro?

[grayrose76.livejournal.com]

Do you know if the rate kicks in at the time of acceptance or the time of publication? Mine came out today?

Ehhh... I seem to be writing nothing but copious lecture notes this semester. :(

[ken-schneyer.livejournal.com]

Please to observe that most of the markets in your top eleven accept electronic submissions, and a large proportion of those in your "SFWA but not in top ten" group don't. L.J. is an electronic medium, you see. Q. E. Deedleedee...

[david-de-beer.livejournal.com]

these are also the markets with the fastest turnarounds which probably influences it a bit.
interesting stats, ta JK.

[justin-pilon.livejournal.com]

Interesting stats. Personal comments and speedy response times seem to be the deciding factors. But some of these high-sub mags don't really fit that criteria.

[safewrite.livejournal.com]

We equal Asimov's???

Interesting.

[ckastens.livejournal.com]

Very interesting.

Looks like response time is a big factor. Especially when people have a lot of stories to send out, you can sometimes send three to the same place while waiting for another magazine to respond.