Drama and excitement

I didn’t talk much publicly about the freakout of a TC editor in spring 2004 b/c her having some kind of mental breakdown wasn’t exactly public blog fodder. Well ya know what? I’ve decided that it is.
Here’s the story in a nutshell: An editor, let’s call her T, suddenly erased every post she’d ever made [...]

Idiots

I just read (and deleted) an e-mail from a moron. She starts with “Dear Sir/Madam.” As we say on our sub guidelines “Dear Editors” is sufficient. Since I’m listed as “Editor” a lot of the more clueless submissions are addressed to me. It always cracked me up to get a “dear sir” when we had [...]

Better than all right

Nothing for the e-zine blew me away. There was a poem I really liked (by a 17 year old — cool!) but otherwise it was kind of a mixed bag. Between pre-reading all the entries and doing the AB, my brain is drained. Thank god T agreed to do the notifications. I know they’d be [...]

From my Quantum Muse newsletter

Yes, I have been published there. B/c they rawk.
Back in the day, we only got, like, twelve submissions a month, and had to pick the good ones and reject the bad. Now we get about a hundred. The reading takes forever, we always have more good than we can use, and try to save some [...]

New AB article up: Zines

This one was tough. I’ve always done May so I volunteered months ago to do the May article even though I also did March (”Creating An Online Portfolio”). Besides that I’ve been mighty tired lately so the actual work was a struggle. Then I had problems organizing it and getting the point across.
Zines are a [...]