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Jan. 11th, 2003 12:04 am| total stories | Total authors | new authors |
sex ratio (men:women) |
overall |
authors |
|
| Analog | 147 | 102 | 8 | 5: 3 | 1:18 | 1:13 |
| Asimovs | 142 | 97 | 3 | 1:2 | 1:47 | 1:32 |
| SH | 111 | 80 | 38 | 18:20 | 1:3 | 1:2 |
| F&SF | 158 | 96 | 8 | 6:2 | 1:20 | 1:12 |
| ROF | 36 | 32 | 4 | 4:0 | 1:9 | 1:8 |
| SF.com | 71 | 53 | 2 | 2:0 | 1:36 | 1:27 |
| overall | 665 | 460 | 62 | 36:27 | 1:11 | 1:7 |
This is not the chances of getting published, but merely an analysis of the stories that were published in the past two years. I looked at total stories published by the market, unique authors, new authors, the sex of the authors, and the likelihood that a story in that publication is a first publication credit and the likelihood that an author in that publication had had their first publications there in the timeframe covered by the analysis. This is all based on 2001 and 2002 data.
Basically, I stuck them all in an excel file, and then crossreferenced it against the data at http://www.isfdb.org. I may be overestimating with SH's details because the database doesn't include *any* SH data at all. I did first short-fiction sale only data--no previous genre fiction sales of any length. (There were only a couple of people who had a novel out the same year but no other short fiction--I excluded them. Conversely, there were about the same number of people who had made previous sales in a different genre, who I did include) There were also multiple stories by new authors in several markets--SH of course, but also Analog and FSF. The authors data at SH was estimated based on the average difference between stories and authors for Asimovs and Analog. Overall is total stories divided by new authors. Authors is total authors divided by new authors.