I just wanted to post a quick note to let the writers who read this blog know that over at F&SF we’ve added a new editorial type to the team: Lisa Rogers. She’s just started working with us, but she has several years of editing experience. She went through some slush on Wednesday, so some of you will be seeing rejections from her. I really just wanted to point this out to let everyone know that she has not replaced me—we’ll just be working along side one another.
Over on the F&SF Forum, editor Gordon Van Gelder posted the following note:
We’re going to do a promotional giveaway with this issue. There’s a box of copies of this issue on its way to me and I’d like to give away the copies people who will blog about the issue. So here’s the deal:
1) Go to our "Contact Us" page: http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/contact.htm
2) Tell us where to mail your copy of the issue.
3) Receive the issue and blog about it. Naturally, we prefer if you read the issue before blogging about it, but I’m just insisting that you blog about it. (The first time we tried this promotion, people mistakenly thought they should blog about the magazine before receiving the issue. No. Get the issue first, then blog about it.)
4) Send us a link to your blog.
That’s all there is to it. I’ll post here when we run out of the giveaway copies.
Spread the word!
That’s 160 pages of top-notch science fiction & fantasy. Here’s the table of contents:
THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION
July • 59th Year of Publication
NOVELLAS
NOVELETS
SHORT STORIES
DEPARTMENTS
CARTOONS
COVER
Has everyone been popping over to the new F&SF blog to read all the wonderful goodness over there? I’ve posted a few more F&SF author interviews since we launched:
There’s also some other varied stuff. Like, for instance, we’re giving away a copy of the DVD of The Martian Child. Go view the contest rules and enter! Even if you don’t want it, you could give it to a friend or something. Do it for pride! I think the contest rules are fun. You should go play.
Also, I just posted the Jan. 2008: Favorite Story Poll the other day, so be sure to go vote. (Those won’t be appearing here anymore.)
So, anyway, I’m curious what you all think of the F&SF blog so far. How is it? What could we be doing better?
The April 2008 issue of F&SF is now on sale. This issue features a new Silurian Tale by Steven Utley, and this month’s bonus online reprint is another Silurian Tale, "Promised Land," which first appeared in our July 2005 issue.
Here’s the table of contents:
NOVELETS
SHORT STORIES
DEPARTMENTS
CARTOONS
COVER
Not that kind of alignment, D&D players. What I’m talking about is text alignment.
One of the annoying variances in manuscript formatting that tends to annoy me as an editor–or rather as a reader who happens to be reading something in manuscript format–is when writers put their name and/or any other information in the header aligned to the left margin. You see, there is a reason that standard ms. format dictates you put your name/title of the story/page count, etc. on the right. Well, there might actually be more than one reason, but the one that seems obvious to me, having read so many thousands of mss. over the years is that when that information is left-aligned, the reader trips over it every time he/she turns the page. If you look, you’ll notice books never do that either–so when you flick your eyes to the top of the next page, the first words you see are the continuation of the text, rather than being interrupted by the title of the story or the name of the author.
F&SF has officially entered the blogosphere! Go check out the new blog, as well as our new forum. I’ll be moving my F&SF author interviews over there, and indeed have already done so: my interview with Albert E. Cowdrey is up now.
So, go have a look. And tell your friends!
Dave Truesdale goes "Off on a Tangent" again. What’s it about? Well, the title of the article–"SFWA Nebula Apathy Slights Original Anthologies: Or Why I Like the Hugos"–pretty much sums it up.
The March 2008 issue of F&SF is now on sale. Also, on the F&SF website is this month’s bonus story, Tropical Nights at the Natatorium by Richard Paul Russo (reprinted from our September 2003 issue).
Here’s the table of contents:
NOVELLAS
NOVELETS
SHORT STORIES
DEPARTMENTS
CARTOONS
COVER
Locus has published its 2007 recommended reading list. The following stories from F&SF made the list:
Novellas
Novelettes
Short Stories
Congrats to all of the authors!
* Also in Wastelands.
Kathryn Cramer has posted the table of contents for the forthcoming Year’s Best SF 13 edited by David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer. Two of the 25 stories are from F&SF: