This month many people have been complaining about abnormal rejection rates. When I was looking at DT chart it stroke me that it was the same last January then slowly it went down. It must be some rational explanation for this, maybe reviewers take vacations in January after busy holiday season.

other than some truly odd rejection during the festive season, which i account to "christmas help" and "atilla's family sitting in for the regular reviewers", i find that i am actually getting more approvals than rejections all across the board for the Big6+3.
then again, my works have changed too . i updated my shooting concepts and shied away from the perenial clones of the past decade.
i would assume i am in the right direction to think that it is a new decade,
so i expect the buyers are looking for a change too.