EDF Story gets more than 27,000 reads

[Jordan Lapp]

Hey guys,

A story penned by Nicholas Ozment in July, The Only Difference Between Men and Boys is getting a huge number of reads. It got discovered by the social networking site StumbleUpon sometime around November 30th and took off from there.

Normally StumbleUpon sends us a one day spike, and then readers bounce away, but this story has been getting at LEAST 1,500 hits every day since the 30th, as readers have been voting it up.

Our most read author in November actually published his story in July. That's the advantage of publishing on the Internet over print. Once a magazine's month is up, it's gone. On the internet, it's on for at least a year.

[Jordan Lapp]

Incidentally, 27,000 readers is more than any of the big three sci-fi magazines. You want to get read? Publish your work here.

[Sarah Hilary]

Congratulations, Nicholas! And well done, EDF.

[Madeline]

Wow!  Congratulations, Nicholas!

Jordan, all of us here already know EDF is the place to see and be seen (or should I say read and be read?!)  Great work, Jordan, Camille and Steven - as always!

[Shameless]

Rad, Oz!  And EDF, too!

Congratulations to all.

[Gay Degani]

I'm blown away Nicholas by those numbers and am going back to read that story.  I liked it too and glad to see it's making its mark on the world.  And Edf, what can I say.  You guys are FAB.

[jasonstout]

Congrats Nick!

In the orginal comments, Gerard mentioned that this was Digg-worthy.  Since I'm not into Digg, but am into stumbleupon - I thought I'd give it a shot and posted it there.  It got some good thumbs up initially, but then (as Jordan indicated) sort of declined.  I went back and looked and for some reason there's a huge spike in thumbs up and reviews many months later - I've actually never seen that happen before.  Glad that it's getting the wide read it deserves.

[Steven Smethurst]

Most of the time when a story gets hit by Stumbleupon the average read time drops dramatically
http://www.everydayfiction.com/forums/index.php/topic,782.0.html

But this story the average read time is still around 2-3mins so people are reading it!
If you got a Stumbleupon account vote it up!

[Nicholas]

Thanks, everyone. I'm as surprised as anyone. I haven't really been keeping up on how my stories are faring out on the Web--so busy between school and other projects like EDP. Didn't know it had shot off until Jordan gave me a heads-up.

Aside from my appreciation to Jordan, Camille, and Steven for providing the forum, I also must give kudos to Jason and anyone else who posted the story. I don't really know much about the networking sites--StumbleUpon, Digg, Fark, and who-knows-what--so without your initial votes it would have never been there to be discovered.

Happy holidays.