{"id":13973,"date":"2012-02-08T11:00:40","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T19:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2012\/02\/08\/13973.html"},"modified":"2012-02-08T11:00:40","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T19:00:40","slug":"susans-departure-from-sh-editi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2012\/02\/08\/susans-departure-from-sh-editi\/","title":{"rendered":"Susan’s departure from SH editing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(Short version of this: stop by Susan's departure announcement<\/a> to say goodbye!)<\/p>\n

Last week, my co-editor Susan Marie Groppi announced that she's leaving the Strange Horizons<\/cite> fiction department.<\/p>\n

I'm sad to see her go. She's been a core member of the SH<\/cite> staff since she joined around the end of our first month of publication, in fall of 2000—both as a fiction editor for the past eleven years, and, of course, as editor-in-chief of the magazine from 2004 through 2010. I think she's been there longer than anyone else on the staff besides me, and she's done a lot to shape the magazine.<\/p>\n

She'll be sticking around as an advisor, but she won't be a fiction editor any more.<\/p>\n

In addition to being sad that she's leaving, I'm sad (and puzzled) to see that her announcement of her departure<\/a> last week seems to have gotten so little attention. I'm a little out of touch with the sf blogosphere at the moment, but I haven't seen anyone post about it, and there are only about five comments in response to Susan's announcement.<\/p>\n

I hate to solicit comments—but I gotta think that a lot of people must just not have heard yet, because I would expect there to be a lot more response to such a big change.<\/p>\n

So if you've had a story edited by Susan, or if you've read and enjoyed SH<\/cite> fiction anytime in the past eleven years, or if you've even just seen her host a Strange Horizons<\/cite> tea party at WisCon at some point—consider stopping by the abovelinked entry and saying farewell, and thanking her for her work.<\/p>\n

(I ought to have posted a farewell entry when Karen stepped down<\/a>; I'm sorry I didn't. I was sad to see her go, too! But that post got a lot of attention immediately, so it seemed less important to call attention to it.)<\/p>\n

(Ended up republishing this an hour later; sorry for any duplication in feeds and such.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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