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	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.

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You know those two headed dolls? the ones where it's one doll, and then you pull the skirts up over the doll's head (oh come on! I know you did.), and it's a totally different doll? I'm thinking of old fashioned dolls where one would be Scarlet (O'Hara), and the other would be Mammy, but I know there were others as well. Well, I need a monkey doll like that. One side will be the suck monkey side, for when I'm writing and nothing works and I hate it all. And the other side will be the fret monkey side, for when pieces have been out past their usual length of time, and I start worrying. Fret monkey. Suck monkey. Frett monkey. Suck monkey. It would be great.

So, you know, if there's anyone out there who was planning on getting me an Xmas present, but you just haven't found the right thing for me, now you know the perfect present. And, to be even better, it's handmade. Cause nothing says love like handmade. Except, of course, for absolutely priceless. In the good way, not the handmade without-a-price way. And if you'd been planning on getting me something, you should know that I've got your present right here, by the couch, I'm just looking for the right box. Probably one with air holes.