Yesterday, I published new data on my own submissions, analyzed in part because of the TRUNK anthology project I’m planning, of stories that took a long time to place. I set criteria for submitted stories of at least 20 rejections (10 for novelettes because there are fewer markets) based on my  own experience and observations, using my own data drawn from The Grinder, a free and extremely useful submission tracking tool.

Because Grinder of course has thousands of other users, I asked its owner, ...