As you may have heard elsewhere, Gordon recently procreated (with the help of his lovely wife). The result: Zoe Tamsin Van Gelder. And as a extra special bonus, this whole baby business prompted Gordon to buy a house.

The new place is a two family-deal, so Gordon’ll be living upstairs, and F&SF will be living downstairs. So the office is now in Jersey City instead of Hoboken; though it’s in a different city, it’s only about ten minutes away. Don’t worry–we’re keeping the same PO Box, so our submissions address hasn’t changed. If we find a better (closer) post office, we might change it eventually, but for now we’re still going to use the same one.

On Thursday and Friday of this week, we were making runs back and forth to the new place, shuttling over files and computer equipment–small and important stuff that we didn’t trust the movers with. The new place looks to be pretty cool–we’ll have lots of extra room to work with, including a LOT more storage space. In addition to the main house (which has a big basement too), there’s a gigantic shed-thing in the backyard–it’s bigger than some Manhattan apartments. It’s in kind of rough shape right now, but as Gordon says, it’s got a lot of potential. If Gordon grants permission, perhaps I’ll post some photos of the new office once we get it up and running.

That’s all there is to say about the move, I guess, but I just wanted to point out that our response times might be delayed a bit over the next few weeks as we settle in (due to the move, and other reasons). I didn’t get any slush read on Thursday or Friday, and I was already backed up a little bit when this week started. So don’t panic–we’ll get to it soon.