Weekend update
Some things I did this weekend, including several that I had not planned to do, in no particular order: Spent...
Archive for Editing
Father’s Day plus assorted miscellany
Belated happy Father's Day to all y'all fathers! I hope you had a splendid day. My day was okay. Slow...
Assumptions and queries
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.
Strange Horizons fiction submission form
We've finally decided to take the RTF submission system out of beta, and to make it the official preferred submission...
Tickled
Being an editor has its pleasures. One of the things that makes me happiest about editing is seeing authors expressing...
SH stats
Here are a whole bunch of statistics and thoughts regarding the magazine, probably a lot more than you want to...
Another quick magazine update
We've rejected 40 stories in the past couple days, so we're down to only 30 still under consideration. But we...
Fair use
If you want to quote someone else's work, make sure you understand the law.
Don’t spam the editors
Here's another piece of advice for writers. (Or anyone else, but writers are who I see doing this.) When you're...
Another disappearing weekend
Been a while since I've posted anything personal, hasn't it? Some assorted updates: First, I apologize for all those items...
Missing words
Here's something I've been seeing a lot in submissions lately: sentences in which words or phrases or sometimes entire clauses...
The story of my weekend (III)
Sunday night I had dinner with K at a little place called Cafe Bar. It was noisy and filled with...