Jealous?

No. Are you?

You fed the troll. For shame.

Do you have stats on previous Golden Heart winners who’ve gotten published?

I couldn’t help it. It popped up before I even got logged out of WP after posting. If my fan is that anxious to interact with me, it would be churlish of me to refuse…
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I’ve heard something like 30% of GH finalists (not just winners) get published, but I don’t have better details. That 30% could be all the category novels out of the finalist entries, which is kind of different than 30% across the board, I think. Also, I don’t put much faith in the stats because not getting pubbed might be due to lack of effort toward that end by some writers rather than having an unpublishable manuscript. I’ve certainly met people who sit around waiting for NY to come knocking on their door, like editors have some psychic ability that alerts them to an available story. Sorry, chicky, but writing it was the easy part. Now you gotta hustle, and some people won’t do that.
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Like I’ve said a million times, the GH isn’t the magic key to publication, it’s just another way to bring some attention to your writing, and attracting the right person’s attention at the right time (full moon, Venus in the 7th house, at high tide when there’s a solar eclipse during the vernal equinox and the grunion are running, etc.) is what it all boils down to.
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Jealousy infers a rivalry I don’t believe exists. I am happy as hell for anybody who gets that break because I know they didn’t roll out of bed yesterday, hammer out 100,000 words, and have a contract in hand in time for dinner. They put in the work and earned the reward, and my WOOT! is entirely genuine.