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Saturday, November 15, 2008
Smoking With...Brant Goble
Check out Stefanie Freele's interview with Brant Goble, ardent short fiction fan and founder of Loosey Goosey Press LLC (publisher of Gander Press Review).
posted by Randall Brown at 7:53 AM 0 comments
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Top Ten Page Views for October 2008
October's Top Ten was absolutely dominated by content from the new issue. Almond and Bell were the only repeats from last month. And, if we look beyond the top ten, the next eight in page views were all from the October issue as well. Talk about a strong issue.1. (NR) Two Minute Silence by Sarah Hilary (10/2/08)
2. (3) Pornography by Steve Almond (6/15/05)
3. (1) The Folk Singer Dreams of Time Machines by Matt Bell (6/15/08)
4. (NR) Innocence, Briefly by Jenny Arnold (10/2/08)
5. (NR) How Anything Got Done by Paul Elwork (10/2/08)
6. (NR) Asian Girl by W.P. Kinsella (10/2/08)
7. (NR) Tapioca O's by Natalie DeClerck (10/2/08)
8. (NR) Tenderoni by Kathy Fish (10/2/08)
9. (NR) Breathing Oysters by Stefanie Freele (10/2/08)
10. (NR) Campfire by Donna D. Vitucci (10/2/08)
Total page views for the month was... get this... 111,740! I'll be interested to see if the page views stay over 100,000 in months without a new issue going live. Here's hoping.
Labels: Donna D. Vitucci, Jenny Arnold, Matt Bell, Natalie DeClerck, Paul Elwork, Sarah Hilary, SmokeLong Quarterly, Stefanie Freele, Steve Almond, Top Ten, W.P. Kinsella
posted by Dave Clapper at 3:00 PM 0 comments
Monday, November 03, 2008
Submissions temporarily down
To anyone who has tried to submit since October 30, you've probably noticed that you've gotten an error message. Our server was having issues on October 31 that took the whole site down, but got it fixed that same day. However, in getting the site back online, something went awry in the permissions on the database that houses submissions. We have a support ticket in with our hosting service, and have put in a payment to upgrade our hosting plan to include SQL Server, rather than just Microsoft Access, so that we can have a more robust submissions system in the future.
Thanks for your patience. We hope to have this fixed ASAMFP.
Edit: The permissions on the folder were set inccorectly when the servers were brought back online. Support has fixed this now and y'all can submit again!!! Thanks for your patience!
Labels: SmokeLong Quarterly, submissions
posted by Dave Clapper at 11:56 AM 0 comments
Thursday, October 16, 2008
October Feature
A discussion of the fear and self-loathing that stops writers from writing--and (maybe) some ways to overcome it. All this comes to you here, at To Write or Not To Write?.
posted by Randall Brown at 9:49 AM 0 comments
Friday, October 03, 2008
stats for issue 21
I'm going to break out the stats for issue twenty-one two different ways since issue twenty-two was so late going live. I'll post one set of stats for what things would've looked like if 22 had come out on time and another set for when 22 actually went live.
 | Issue Twenty-One (live from 6/15/08-10/1/08) 6/15-6/30: 54343 page views 7/1-7/31: 87560 page views 8/1-8/31: 96892 page views 9/1-9/14: 38416 page views 9/15-10/1: 60385 page views Total Issue 21 (through 9/14): 277211 page views Total Issue 21 (through 10/1): 315627 page views |
Even without the extra couple weeks, our birthday issue was clearly a monster: just through the 14th (when it should have finished its run), it broke the previous record for page views by 13.5%. And it seems clear that people were ready for that new issue to hit on the 15th, as the numbers at the end of the month were much higher than at the beginning of the month. I hope my inexcusable tardiness in getting 22 posted didn't cause us to lose readers. To all the writers in this issue, my deepest apologies. I'll do everything I can to make sure you're getting the kind of readership you deserve.
Labels: Issue 21, issue stats, SmokeLong Quarterly
posted by Dave Clapper at 5:14 PM 0 comments
Top Ten Page Views for September 2008
Well, Matt Bell owned the month of September, not only capturing the top spot with his most recent flash in SLQ, but also checking in at #8 for a flash published two years ago. You go, Matt!1. (2) The Folk Singer Dreams of Time Machines by Matt Bell (6/15/08)
2. (5) This Is What You Left Behind by Tod Goldberg (3/15/07)
3. (9) Pornography by Steve Almond (6/15/05)
4. (8) Ten Very Short Stories by John Leary (3/15/07)
5. (NR) Feeling Sad by Darby Larson (6/15/08)
6. (4) Paper Mouse by Bob Arter (6/15/08)
7. (3) We Decided to Make Porn by Brian Allen Carr (6/15/08)
8. (NR) How the Broken Lead the Blind Until They Both Become Something Else Entirely by Matt Bell (6/15/06)
9. (10) The Bone Orchard by Randall Brown (6/15/08)
10. (NR) Handful of Dirt by Jim Ruland (6/15/08)
Total page views for the month? 96,057, another huge month. Woo!
Labels: Bob Arter, Brian Allen Carr, Darby Larson, Jim Ruland, Matt Bell, Randall Brown, SmokeLong Quarterly, Steve Almond, Tod Goldberg, Top Ten
posted by Dave Clapper at 4:29 PM 0 comments
Issue 22 is live
Well, it's incredibly late (which is entirely my fault), but issue 21 is finally live! Check it out:
 | Issue Twenty-Two (October 2, 2008): Innocence, Briefly by Jenny Arnold «» Tapioca O's by Natalie DeClerck «» How Anything Got Done by Paul Elwork «» Tenderoni by Kathy Fish «» Breathing Oysters by Stefanie Freele «» The Mime's Dog by Steven Douglas Gullion «» Two Minute Silence by Sarah Hilary «» Constructing Birds by Jo Horsman «» Crazy Sun by Lauren Huckstadt «» One Night Out by Ashley Kaufman «» Asian Girl by W.P. Kinsella «» Fatback by Jeff Landon «» Bounty by Tricia Louvar «» Beautiful by Antonios Maltezos «» Private Room by M.E. Parker «» True Identity by Kevin Sampsell «» Campfire by Donna D. Vitucci «» Interviews: Jenny Arnold «» Paul Elwork «» Kathy Fish «» Stefanie Freele «» Steven Douglas Gullion «» Sarah Hilary «» Jo Horsman «» Ashley Kaufman «» Jeff Landon «» Tricia Louvar «» Antonios Maltezos «» M.E. Parker «» Kevin Sampsell «» Donna D. Vitucci «» Cover Art "November Leaves" by Marty D. Ison «» Letter From the Editor |
Labels: Issue 22, SmokeLong Quarterly
posted by Dave Clapper at 1:51 PM 0 comments
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Smoking with..the newest SLQ staff members
Click here to meet and greet the newest additions to the SmokeLong Quarterly staff: "Smoking with...the Best Flash-itical Team on the Net".
posted by Randall Brown at 8:41 AM 0 comments
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
Top Ten Page Views for August 2008
August's top ten is a great example of why I'm such a huge fan of publishing online versus print publishing. Alexandra Fox's story was the most viewed piece of the month, with over 1000 page views last month. And it was published three years ago. And how did this come to pass? Apparently, somewhere along the way, it got tagged on StumbleUpon, and so users of that service wound up being directed to this work quite often. Lots of new readers for a story from 2005. When's the last time you saw print do that?1. (NR) A Deep Desire for Blue by Alexandra Fox (6/15/05)
2. (3) The Folk Singer Dreams of Time Machines by Matt Bell (6/15/08)
3. (1) We Decided to Make Porn by Brian Allen Carr (6/15/08)
4. (2) Paper Mouse by Bob Arter (6/15/08)
5. (NR) This Is What You Left Behind by Tod Goldberg (3/15/07)
6. (8) The Cougar by Dave Clapper (6/15/08)
7. (6) Disease Relics by Blake Butler (6/15/08)
8. (4) Ten Very Short Stories by John Leary (3/15/07)
9. (7) Pornography by Steve Almond (6/15/05)
10. (5) The Bone Orchard by Randall Brown (6/15/08)
One other quick note: for the month, we had 96,892 page views, shattering our previous monthly record. Holy cow.
Labels: Alexandra Fox, Blake Butler, Bob Arter, Brian Allen Carr, Dave Clapper, John Leary, Matt Bell, Randall Brown, SmokeLong Quarterly, Steve Almond, Tod Goldberg, Top Ten
posted by Dave Clapper at 5:41 PM 0 comments
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