At the cutting edge of crime fiction, Mystery Magazine presents original short stories by the world’s best-known and emerging mystery writers. The stories we feature in our monthly issues span every imaginable subgenre, including cozy, police procedural, noir, whodunit, supernatural, hardboiled, humor, and historical mysteries. Evocative writing and a compelling story are the only certainty.
This statistical information is an aggregation of submission data provided by our members. The more data we have the more accurate our
numbers will be so please be sure to log all of your submissions here and not just your rejections or acceptances.
Count:
There are 76 completed reports in the past 12 months.
Averages and Boundaries:
Min: 6 | Average: 33.28 | Median: 32 | Max: 141
Responded:
97.36%
Accepted:
14.47% - avg 28 days
Rejected:
82.89% - avg 34 days(28.57% of rejections are personal)
Rewrites:
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Dead Letters:
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Lost/Returned:
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Never Responded:
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Withdrawn:
2.63%
Pending:
There are 10 pending responses.
(3 min | 33 average | 26 median | 71 max days waiting)
Note: pending statistics may skew high if some users neglect their data. We recommend querying after the time the market suggests to query.