Okay, Jay Lakes Year-End Stats make my measley number of rejections look insignificant: 144 submissions, 101 rejections, 25 stories sold, in one year!
Update:
Jay makes a note of his acceptance ratio here, 1:5-1/2 and says "When people look at my wide bibliography, it's not because I'm *that* good, well-connected or lucky. It's because, as you said, I never stop working the chain"
and finishes up with some good advice...
"There's only two successes you can directly control: successfully finishing a story and successfully mailing it. Sale, publication, critical acceptance, award nominations -- that's all in someone else's control, and you can fail all over the god damned place with those all your life. But you can write, and you can mail."
