Seasonal
Just a reminder to authors that if you submit a story now and we accept it, it's likely to be published sometime around September. So if you have a Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur story you want us to publish at the appropriate time of year (late September or early October this year), you should send it our way soon. Likewise if you want us to consider an autumn-oriented story, or a Canadian Thanksgiving story, or a Columbus Day story, or even a Halloween story, send it within the next month or so. Guy Fawkes stories can come in a little later. (And you probably shouldn't send us election-day-themed stories at any time of year unless you can avoid being heavy-handed with them.) Ramadan runs from late October through late November this year, and then comes Thanksgiving in the US. Unlike in 2002, Hanukkah will be late in December in 2003, coinciding with both Winter Solstice (a.k.a. Summer Solstice in the Southern hemisphere) and Christmas; you've still got another couple months before you need to send any Hanukkah/Solstice/Christmas stories you want us to publish this year. But even those should probably be submitted by, say, the 4th of July.