Slow Going

Things are going slowly this month at FMM. Both the Editor-in-Chief and the Managing Editor have been taking part in a special focus group this month, leaving the rest of the staff to manage as best they can. Our new Administrative Manager went MIA, so we hired a new one, and training takes time. All of these are are excuses, but we do hope you'll forgive us our slow turn-around times this month.

Here are the current stats:

We have received 194 submissions so far this quarter.

We have rejected 107, sent 3 back for rewrites, held 4 for voting, and accepted 3 (though we still haven't contacted those authors yet*).

We have 10 submissions before the editorial board right now, and 67 left in our inbox. We have not reviewed any submissions received after February 7th.

Thank you for your patience!

JDawson
Editor-in-Chief

*Why does it take so long to send out an acceptance letter? Before I send out an acceptance letter, I read through each story carefully for any typos. Our acceptance letters include a list of any edits we would make to the story, so the author knows exactly what we would change (with permission, of course!). Mark, Lydia, and Adam, I will try to get your acceptance letters mailed next week.