Long Submission-To-Approval Time

[ReGats]

So, I've submitted a story. Due to my technological capabilities, I had to submit it in the format where it'd have to be hand-checked. A poor choice, but I don't trust myself with this here new-fangled techie-nolow-gee. If I have counted correctly it's been 8 days since I've done that.

What I want to know is; has anyone else had this issue? Is this website really so busy that the person who does hand-check these things can only go through so many? Or am I just a bizarre anomaly?

By the way, my previous story took more than a week as well, but that was my fault. Mid-way through the pending status, I checked it and resubmitted it because I thought that it hadn't actually uploaded the first time. I think that my resubmission redirected it to the bottom of the submissions pile.

 

[John Blackhawk]

It's not unusual depending on the story length.

 

[Kimikimidoll]

Or maybe the season. Oh, maybe they were checking the Winter submissions first, so they could be up in time before the deadline?

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Most stories by established authors post in 2 - 3 days. During a contest that might go to 4-6 days, maybe. Any longer than that, there could be a hiccup.

The way to handle that is to PM Laurel and politely inquire when your story will post.

 

[HandsInTheDark]

Most stories by established authors post in 2 - 3 days. During a contest that might go to 4-6 days, maybe. Any longer than that, there could be a hiccup.

The way to handle that is to PM Laurel and politely inquire when your story will post.

This. My first story took a 2-3 weeks at least - but it was over the holidays, it was 18 Lit pages, I was an unknown author, it was a little edgy, and I submitted it as a word doc. In the end it was approved without a fuss - but they got the formatting wrong when it came to italics (and now that I know Word better, I know exactly how they tried to automate converting italics to tags and exactly what they did wrong.)

Now I do my own formatting, my stuff rarely goes over 5 pages, and Laurel probably has a handle on what I write about - and they sail through in 3 full days.