Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Finally...

The next issue of NC Career Network Magazine gets uploaded to the printing company today - finally. What a change this was from the last issue. Last time we put the whole thing together in a 4-day blitz that nearly killed me, and I swore it would never be that way again. This time the process managed to string out over 5 weeks and you know what? I'll take the 4-day blitz over this Chinese water-torture every time. But it's done. It has to be; it's off the printers. Thank God.

That means now I can focus a lot more of my time and attention on the IGMS pile of stories. I've been chipping away at them all along, and I'm about 40% of the way through the pile. Of those stories I've read so far (for those of you keeping score at home), I've rejected about 2/3 of them, and contacted the authors of the other 1/3 letting them know I liked their story enough to put it in my "read again" pile. I've bought 5 stories, had Scott buy 1 more, and am working with one author on rewrites of a story I think is very close to being ready. I've got enough stories to fill one issue of IGMS and am working on filling the next one. We are still waiting on some of the art for issue #3, as well as Scott's new Ender story, but hopefully that will all be done soon.

P.S. For the record, Yes, the "read again" people are being notified.

In unrelated news, here's a link to my monthly non-fiction column for the Horror Library:

http://www.horrorlibrary.net/view_story.php?story_id=586

It's an interview with author Steven Savile about the HWA Mentoring Program.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Fantastic interview Ed, and what an incredible program. It seems so much of what is in the writing world is the "There's not enough room for everyone so the more people who drop before me the better," attitude (Not that moi has ever held this attitude. Uh-uh. Nope, not me. Way too sweet), that it's encouraging to see writers pulling each other along WITHOUT the requesite workshop fee.

Again, great interview and write-up.