Happy new year, all!<\/p>\n
The Strange Horizons<\/cite> fiction department has, of course, reopened to submissions. We've had eight so far this morning.<\/p>\n The only even remotely significant change to our guidelines is a tiny subtle one: I'd now like authors, when specifying wordcount at the top of the submission email, to always round up<\/em> to the next-highest hundred words, rather than just round off to the nearest hundred. We round up when we're paying, so if authors also round up, it'll give us a more accurate impression of the wordcount we'll be paying for.<\/p>\n As always, the wordcount is meant as an approximation, just to give us a rough idea of how long the story is. We re-count words before sending a check and contract anyway.<\/p>\n But if you happen to think of it when submitting, round up.<\/p>\n (It occurs to me that in various meta-entries about this journal lately I never quite mentioned that a lot of the people who read this are authors who submit to us, so I often use the journal as an informal and unofficial way to spread magazine news. For those of y'all who aren't writers, I tend to figure you can just skip those entries.)\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Happy new year, all! The Strange Horizons fiction department has, of course, reopened to submissions. We’ve had eight so far…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}