New info blog for SH fiction department
For years, I've been posting info and news about the SH fiction department here in my personal blog. From now... (More...)
For years, I've been posting info and news about the SH fiction department here in my personal blog. From now... (More...)
In case anyone's curious about how long the submission form has been open each day before reaching the daily submission... (More...)
I think I fixed the last of the major bugs yesterday. The SH submission form automatically reopened itself at midnight... (More...)
The submission form automatically opened at midnight East-Coast US time, just as it was supposed to. We immediately got six... (More...)
We've just hit today's cap, and the submission form has turned itself off for the rest of the day. It'll... (More...)
I mentioned last night that we put a cap on daily SH subs. The system decided that that cap was... (More...)
The Strange Horizons fiction department is open to submissions again. There are a couple of new things worth noting: First,... (More...)
Just realized I never posted here about our job opening. For the past fourteen months or so, the SH fiction... (More...)
This is my annual stats post: a whole bunch of statistics and thoughts regarding the Strange Horizons fiction department. (If... (More...)
As of a couple hours ago, the Strange Horizons fiction department has responded to every story ever submitted to us.... (More...)
We've only got about 100 stories left to respond to. Woo-hoo! (That again may sound like a lot, but out... (More...)
In October, the Strange Horizons fiction department received 444 valid submissions (give or take a couple), making October our 11th-highest-volume... (More...)
Just noticed that it's been over a month since I've posted a life update. Not a whole lot going on,... (More...)
Just a reminder that the Strange Horizons fiction department is temporarily closing to submissions at the end of the day... (More...)
The Strange Horizons fiction department will be closing to submissions in November and December again this year. We've unfortunately fallen... (More...)
In September, the Strange Horizons fiction department received 457 valid submissions, making September our 9th-highest-volume month ever. That's an average... (More...)
It was nine years and three weeks ago that Strange Horizons launched. I mentioned that in passing in mid-August, during... (More...)
I recently speculated that people generally don't seem to have a lot to say in online discussions about individual short... (More...)
In August, the Strange Horizons fiction department received 467 valid submissions, making August the 8th-highest-volume month ever. That's an average... (More...)
I'm looking into ways to resolve this, but in the meantime: Gmail appears to be throwing away more and more... (More...)
Just realized that although I posted about this on Facebook, I haven't yet posted it here: You may recall that... (More...)
John and Krissy Scalzi are doing a dollar-for-dollar match of donations to Strange Horizons today. That's right: for every dollar... (More...)
After the past couple entries, I suspect some of you are thinking "Well, that's all well and good, but I've... (More...)
If you can't donate money to this year's SH fund drive, or don't want to, there are other ways you... (More...)
It's been almost nine years since Strange Horizons launched. During that time we've published over four hundred stories, as well... (More...)
In the past year or so, we've received a surprising number of notes from authors that say something like this:... (More...)
In July, the Strange Horizons fiction department received 488 valid submissions, making July the 7th-highest-volume month ever. (And only a... (More...)
Looks like I failed to post a submission report for May. Sorry about that. Here's a combined report for May... (More...)
We've recently had a spate of queries from authors who use Gmail who haven't received rejections that we've sent them.... (More...)
Took a break from magazine stuff to wander over to the East Bay for a writing-in-a-café afternoon. Wrote 1600+ words... (More...)
Last Friday, the 22nd of May, the Strange Horizons fiction department received our 25,000th valid submission. I don't know which... (More...)
The Strange Horizons fiction department is taking the week off. We're all super-busy, and we decided to give ourselves a... (More...)
How'd it get to be May already? In April, the Strange Horizons fiction department received 439 valid submissions. On the... (More...)
I've dropped the ball on my plan to post every week about what we're publishing at SH. Apologies to the... (More...)
Finally finished entering all the March subs into the SH database. Turns out there were 507 submissions in March--our third-highest-volume... (More...)
In the Potlatch dealers' room, I was pleased to find Spiral Hunt, SH author Margaret Ronald's first novel, just published... (More...)
We received 455 valid submissions in February, 2009. That's the fifth-highest-volume month ever; up 20% over February, 2008. The only... (More...)
This week at Strange Horizons: "The First Time We Met," by Maria Deira. I'm having trouble coming up with a... (More...)
Forgot to post this last week. Last week at Strange Horizons: "Obedience," by Brenna Yovanoff. We don't normally publish zombie... (More...)
You know how every so often I post a note here saying "we've responded to stories submitted through [date x]"?... (More...)
This week at Strange Horizons: "This Must Be the Place," by Elliott Bangs--a story of love, time travel, and music:... (More...)
Submission volume at SH was tapering off toward the end of the month, until this past week when we had... (More...)
Last week and this week at Strange Horizons: A two-part story, "The Shangri-La Affair," by Lavie Tidhar, in which a... (More...)
I forgot to mention that in our second week of the year (January 4 through 10), we received 172 valid... (More...)
I've been meaning for maybe a year now to start posting a link from my blog to each week's fiction... (More...)
The fiction department's week goes from Sunday to Saturday, so by our measure we've just completed week one of submissions,... (More...)
We got 45 valid submissions during our first 24 hours after reopening to subs, tying with January 1, 2008 for... (More...)
This is my annual stats post: a whole bunch of statistics and thoughts regarding the Strange Horizons fiction department. (If... (More...)
As of this morning (Sunday, December 21), we have responded to every story ever submitted to Strange Horizons. If you've... (More...)
We've only got about 35 stories left to respond to. Can't promise anything, but we're hoping to respond to most... (More...)
Over the past couple of months, at least eight of our rejections sent to Yahoo mail accounts have silently disappeared.... (More...)
As of sometime around this past Sunday, Strange Horizons has received stories from approximately 10,000 different authors since we started... (More...)
Just a reminder that the Strange Horizons fiction department is temporarily closing to subs for two months, starting November 1.... (More...)
The Strange Horizons fiction department will be closing to submissions in November and December this year. We briefly contemplated staying... (More...)
I've seen a bunch of stories in the last couple of weeks that boil down to this quasi-plot: Someone encounters... (More...)
Strange Horizons is suffering from a dearth of short submissions lately. Or at least, of short submissions that we want... (More...)
I just noticed that two days ago was the eighth anniversary of the launch of Strange Horizons. Yay, us! I... (More...)
Part n of the standard "why don't people read guidelines?" complaint: We usually get maybe two or three stories a... (More...)
This morning in the dealer's room at WorldCon, I was introduced to an Australian author who was interested in submitting... (More...)
Just finished entering the last of the July submissions into the database. Our previous highest-volume month was this past January,... (More...)
During the first 24 hours of being open to subs again, we received 73 stories. The previous one-day record was... (More...)
I just barely got the MailTemplate plugin installed and working last night before we reopened to subs and the onslaught... (More...)
As of this afternoon, we've replied to every story ever submitted to Strange Horizons. If you've ever sent us a... (More...)
So close to being done! We have now responded to almost all of the stories that've ever been submitted to... (More...)
After two weeks of this year's Strange Horizons fund drive, we've received nearly $2500 in donations; which is nice, but... (More...)
In the first week of the Strange Horizons fund drive, we've received over $1400 in donations; almost a quarter of... (More...)
It's time for this year's Strange Horizons fund drive. Susan has posted a couple of entries about it on the... (More...)
The Strange Horizons fiction department has now responded to all stories submitted before 1 April 2008; if you or anyone... (More...)
A couple of weeks ago, I read a particularly long run of submissions with particularly unfortunate anti-woman aspects. All sorts... (More...)
One last reminder: you have less than 24 hours left to submit fiction to Strange Horizons before we close to... (More...)
We've been seeing a lot of giant-monster stories lately. I've been assuming that most of them were rejected by one... (More...)
Just a reminder that if you want to submit to SH before our summer closure, you need to do so... (More...)
The Strange Horizons fiction department has now responded to all stories submitted before 1 March 2008; if you or anyone... (More...)
The Strange Horizons fiction department is temporarily closing to submissions during the months of May and June--that is, from May... (More...)
We ended up with 405 submissions in March, making it the third-highest-volume month we've ever had. That's an average of... (More...)
The Strange Horizons fiction department has now responded to all stories submitted before 3 February 2008; if you or anyone... (More...)
The Strange Horizons fiction department received its 20,000th submission this evening. Give or take. The official count overcounts some things... (More...)
This isn't a full report on SH submissions, but there are a couple of tidbits I wanted to mention: Before... (More...)
The past couple of weeks have seen a marked increase in mistakes on submissions. We've seen more mistakes than usual... (More...)
During the month of January, 2008, Strange Horizons received 494 valid submissions--our highest-volume month ever, but only barely edging out... (More...)
Submission volume this week, in stories per day, went: 45, 27, 25, 24, 17. So we had a total of... (More...)
Last year, submission volume went like this for the first four days of January: 33, 40, 35, 23. Those first... (More...)
Our server is in the US Eastern time zone, where it's just after midnight, so Strange Horizons has now reopened... (More...)
This is my annual stats post: a whole bunch of statistics and thoughts regarding the Strange Horizons fiction department. (If... (More...)
As of a couple hours ago, the Strange Horizons fiction department has responded to every story ever submitted to us.... (More...)
I'll do my end-of-year stats sometime soonish, but for now, just wanted to mention that we closed to subs shortly... (More...)
Reminder to authors: you have six more days (counting today) to submit to Strange Horizons before we close to subs... (More...)
Something that continues to baffle me, in a low-key sort of way: About two to three times a week (not... (More...)
This afternoon, we received our 19,000th submission. Well, okay, there's enough flex in definitions and recordkeeping that that's not an... (More...)
This year, the Strange Horizons fiction department is temporarily closing to submissions during the months of November and December--that is,... (More...)
It just occurred to me that September 1 marked the 7th anniversary of the launch of Strange Horizons. Happy birthday,... (More...)
Our web host, Pair, upgraded our server on Thursday. As a result, for the past 48 hours, the Strange Horizons... (More...)
Three quick things as I rush off to a meeting: Susan's been nominated for a Special Award in the World... (More...)
As I mentioned a couple weeks ago, some of the pieces we've published at Strange Horizons are now Creative-Commons-licensed. Below... (More...)
Strange Horizons is having its 2007 fund drive, and we need your help. Partly that means financial help, of course,... (More...)
A couple of our authors have recently expressed interest in providing Creative Commons licenses for their work that appears in... (More...)
I could have sworn I'd written about this recently, but I can't find it. Apologies if this is a repeat.... (More...)
We've now responded to all stories submitted before 24 April. If you submitted to us on or before 23 April... (More...)
Nick M. notes that only women submit to Clarkesworld using initials (in place of a first name). Which I found... (More...)
I sorta thought that submission volume was going down again, but I was wrong. April turned out to be our... (More...)
The Strange Horizons fiction department has now responded to all stories submitted before 3 February 2007; if you or anyone... (More...)
A few authors have received mysterious Server Errors when they submit using our RTF submission form. The short version of... (More...)
Final submission count for January: 491 legitimate subs. Our previous highest-volume month was January of 2005, with 342 subs. That's... (More...)
A passel of sf-related news and tidbits (which seems to be all I post about these days--some day I'll have... (More...)
The first week of 2007 netted us a total of 161 SH submissions... (More...)
A few assorted tidbits I've been meaning to mention: adfamiliares and jere7my got engaged! J7y also posted a great photo... (More...)
Wednesday we received 35 valid submissions; Thursday "only" 23, which would still be enough to make it the fourth-highest-volume day... (More...)
Y'know how yesterday I said that we'd never received more than 33 valid subs in a single day? Today we... (More...)
On the first day of 2007, our authors gave to us: 33 valid submissions, 2 email submissions formatted in HTML... (More...)
This is my now-annual stats post: a whole bunch of statistics and thoughts regarding the Strange Horizons fiction department. (If... (More...)
We have now responded to all stories ever submitted to Strange Horizons. So if you've ever sent us a story... (More...)
The Strange Horizons fiction department is now temporarily closed to subs through the end of 2006. We reopen on January... (More...)
Just a reminder that the Strange Horizons fiction department will be closed to subs for the month of December, so... (More...)
As usual, the Strange Horizons fiction department is temporarily closing to submissions during the month of December this year. If... (More...)
The Strange Horizons fall fund drive is nearly over, and I still haven't managed to post about it. I suppose... (More...)
For the first five months of this year, submission volume each month at Strange Horizons almost exactly matched submission volume... (More...)
On Friday, September 1, 2000, at 2:30 a.m. UK time, Strange Horizons went live with our first content. I say... (More...)
We at Strange Horizons have just about filled up our publishing schedule for 2006, and have started on 2007. Interestingly, even though still only about 33% to 40% of our submissions are by women, in 2006 two-thirds of the stories we're publishing are by women. (More...)
I've noticed a couple of recurring problems in submissions to SH lately, so I wanted to spread the word about... (More...)
Some things I did this weekend, including several that I had not planned to do, in no particular order: Spent... (More...)
We received our 14,000th submission at Strange Horizons yesterday. At the current rate of submissions, I'm expecting we'll reach 15,000... (More...)
Say you're a writer, and you want to submit to a magazine. Say you've actually read their submission guidelines, but there was something in them that you think the editors can't possibly have meant. (More...)
We've finally decided to take the RTF submission system out of beta, and to make it the official preferred submission... (More...)
In case anyone's been wondering what's up with the SH forum and missed Susan's explanation: Last Friday (9 June), Susan... (More...)
For over three months now, I've been meaning to post a note about Liz Henry's excellent SH review of Touched... (More...)
Tomorrow night (which is to say Wednesday, 10 May), there'll be a rapid-fire reading in San Francisco to benefit Strange... (More...)
Strange Horizons has announced the winners of the 2005 Readers' Choice Awards. Congratulations to all! Also, as Susan notes in... (More...)
This past week turned out to be the fourth-highest-volume week ever for SH submissions; we received 90 stories this week.... (More...)
Assorted Year's Best TOCs and news and such: Kathryn Cramer has posted the table of contents for Year's Best SF... (More...)
Two notes about the SH Readers' Choice Awards: The voting period has been extended to this coming Wednesday, March 22.... (More...)
Under the new eligibility rules for the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer, Strange Horizons is a qualifying... (More...)
It's often hard for readers to tell how long a given story is, and various awards divide stories into categories... (More...)
I've developed what I think is a fairly accurate (but entirely useless to most of the world) algorithm for a computer to automatically guess the gender of an author who submits to SH... (More...)
Some deadlines, to-do items, and con-related notes, and more good news for SH. (More...)
Various editors of the various Year's Best science fiction and fantasy volumes have started posting their tables of contents. And... (More...)
Rather to my surprise, only three people have used the experimental RTF submission system in the week since I mentioned... (More...)
There continues to be tremendous confusion among some SH submitters over the distinction between curved (or slanted) quotation marks and... (More...)
If you'd like to submit a story to Strange Horizons as an RTF file (rather than converting it to plain... (More...)
In January, 2006, the Strange Horizons fiction department received 339 submissions, which is 3 short of the record set in... (More...)
Locus Magazine's Recommended Reading list for 2005 is now online. Congratulations to everyone whose work appears on the list! I... (More...)
Or maybe I mean "weird week." I haven't been sleeping well, but I've been sleeping late. I've been putting in... (More...)
Submission volume dropped a lot in the second half of the week. We had a total of 90 submissions from... (More...)
I'll try and post a more substantive entry sometime soon. For now, more SH stats: Yesterday, we received another 21... (More...)
Today: 24 submissions--more than either of the past two days, and tied for second-highest-volume day ever. For those keeping score... (More...)
Today we received 22 more submissions. Also, I wrote some new code to make it easier for me to enter... (More...)
Submission volume today was high but not quite as high as I expected: "only" 23 submissions today (during normal periods,... (More...)
Here are some of the things I've done in the past week, in no particular order: finally washed some dishes... (More...)
Here are a whole bunch of statistics and thoughts regarding the magazine, probably a lot more than you want to... (More...)
We have now responded to all stories ever submitted to Strange Horizons. So if you've ever sent us a story... (More...)
We've rejected 40 stories in the past couple days, so we're down to only 30 still under consideration. But we... (More...)
Fourteen of the twenty book boxes arrived Saturday morning. Presumably the rest will arrive Monday. They're stacked in my garage... (More...)
Quite a while ago, we SH editors discovered that when we send a rejection to a cox.net address, cox considers... (More...)
As usual, the Strange Horizons fiction department is temporarily closing to submissions during the month of December this year. If... (More...)
I'm sleepy and headachey, so figured I'd take a break from serious magazine work to post something a little more... (More...)
Here's another piece of advice for writers. (Or anyone else, but writers are who I see doing this.) When you're... (More...)
The other day, in my entry about the SH fund drive, I said I would love to see a bunch... (More...)
As October draws to a close, it's time for a semiannual tradition: Jed suddenly remembering that we're having a fund... (More...)
While I'm (sort of) on the subject of that old journal entry about author gender and prolificness, perhaps an update... (More...)
Some good things that've happened recently: Had lunch with Susan G, whom I hadn't seen in much too long. Had... (More...)
In case anyone who cares hasn't heard yet, Strange Horizons is now temporarily closed to fiction submissions for the month... (More...)
As usual, the Strange Horizons fiction department is temporarily closing to submissions during the month of December this year. If... (More...)
Some things that've made me happy lately: At World Fantasy Con this past weekend, half a dozen people I didn't... (More...)
On the off chance that anyone at WorldCon is reading this and doesn't know: The Strange Horizons and Small Beer... (More...)
Assorted good stuff today (by which I mean Friday, though posted a little too late for "today" to be officially... (More...)
Last night online people kept saying "All Hail King Torg!" So I Googled, and found that they were referring to... (More...)
And one more thing: today (more or less) marks 18 months since Strange Horizons launched. Go us! (It's also my... (More...)