Don’t forget! The current Big Based Book Sale is still ongoing for another two days!
The Fall issue is dropping VERY SOON, but if you were a mailing list subscriber, you got secret links to where you could buy it early nearly two weeks ago!
Current submissions status: 65 stories left to read.
We’re moving around a lot of money right now to pay off the expenses on the Mighty Sons of Hercules project, and once the accounts are settled and the business card zeroed out [or close to], we’ll be able to start sending out more offers to the top-tier stories in the maybe bucket. These will begin ~September 15th-18th (after my next payday). We will try to have everyone contacted by the end of September.
Please bear with us just a little bit longer. We had at least one person who got incredibly impatient and demanded to hear a response from us one way or the other because it had been “over a month” [it had been one month and 3 hours] which would’ve earned a hasty rejection even if I hadn’t read the story just the night before.
Apologies to people who got me their stories on the last day of submissions. It’s not looking great for you, because I’ve already got to cut ~30k-40k words of stuff in the maybe bucket that I HAVE read [RIP chances of your otherwise exceptional novelettes]. Anything I read going forward has to be good enough to bump off a heartbreaker.
A series of minor financial disasters have spiraled into a major financial disaster [it has just been one thing after another for the last two months, a few hundred bucks here and there, then I find out that I need a new transmission], so WE CANNOT OVERBUY THIS YEAR. There’s no money in the budget (business or private) for it.
We have some ad-space in the winter issue as well as back cover and interior slots available for 2024.
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