In July 2013, I served as the “editor-in-residence” for the Codex Writing Group, which meant basically I was asking a month-long AMA (“Ask Me Anything”) interview. With Codex’s permission, I’m re-posting the Q&As here on my blog. The questions were all provided by members of Codex.

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What are the chances of you expanding Lightspeed to include a flash story per issue?

I wouldn’t rule it out as something that will never happen, but I don’t have any current plans to implement something like that. I have considered the idea. It most likely would have to wait until we do some kind of major overhaul to the Lightspeed website, since the way it is currently setup doesn’t really give us much if any room to add additional content above and beyond what we already have on the site. Which is not to say that it couldn’t use some re-thinking; webmaster Jeremy Tolbert and I have discussed it on a number of occasions, given the magazine has changed and evolved quite a bit since the original site architecture was originally designed.

The other possibility — which could be implemented more easily — would be that I could add a flash piece to every issue, but make it exclusive to the ebook editions. The question there is: Would more people buy the ebook editions because I add that to each issue? And/or would it make my existing ebook readers happier with the magazine to have such bonus content? (Too bad I didn’t have this as a question on our reader survey.)

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