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Uh...incorrect. Laurie Tom had 2 of her stories on the Tangent list.

-- Mike Resnick

Tangent just put 17 Galaxy's Edge stories on their recommended list, which is not at all bad for a bi-monthly: “To Catch a Comet” by Sylvia Spruck Wrigley (Galaxy's Edge #19, 3-4/16) “The Vampire's New Clothes” by Martin L. Shoemaker (Galaxy's Edge #21, 7-8/16) “Breaking News Involving Space Pirates...

Galaxy’s Edge #24 --- January 1, 2017 Table of Contents Zombies Anonymous, by Larry Hodges Giovanni’s Tree, by Nick DiChario The Waters and the Wild, by Mercedes Lackey To Them We Are Merely Clay, by Liz Colter We Get What We Deserve, by Kevin J. Anderson & Neal Peart It’s Not A Purple People Ea...

It sounds simplistic, but when I finish a story or a chapter I read it aloud, even in an empty room. And I find that some sentences that are grammatically correct and got by me when I proofread can be awkward or even a bit confusing...and you NEVER want you reader to stop -- not to think, or eat, or...

Three of the anthologies I mentioned are out of print. SHAGGY B.E.M. STORIES is back
in print under a new title: BUG-EYED MONSTERS AND BIMBOS. (The publisher didn't know
what a B.E.M. was.) Anthologies don't live that long. Of the 42 I've edited since 1988, I
think 4 are still available.

-- Mike

You ain't lived until, as an editor, you've had to fill some of the anthologies I had to find stories for: SHAGGY B.E.M. STORIES (1988), ALTERNATE KENNEDYS (1992 -- and crazily enough, we got a couple of Hugo nominees out of it), ALTERNATE WORLDCONS (1994), GIRLS FOR THE SLIME GOD (1997), and on and...

Here's the Table of Contents for issue #23, which goes live on November 1: The Editor’s Word – Mike Resnick Breaking News Involving Space Pirates – Brian Trent Ten Things – Ron Collins Devil Went Down to Georgia – Mercedes Lackey Sneak Attack – Eric Cline Songs in the Key of Chamomile – Rebecca Birc...

Thanks. For the record, this (on September 16) is the first I've heard about it.

-- Mike


Addendum: I received congratulations from maybe 300 writers, editors, publishers, fans, and
total strangers around the world by the end of September, so clearly -somebody- heard
about it.

-- Mike

Here's the line-up for #22, which goes live Sept. 1: The Editor’s Word, by Mike Resnick Bookmarked, by Martin L. Shoemaker The Minotaur’s Wife, by Thomas K. Carpenter A Hundred Hundred Daisies, by Nancy Kress A Human’s Life, by George Nikolopoulos In the Yucky Death Mountains, by Eric Leif Davin Mar...

Table of Contents for Galaxy's Edge #21, July/August, 2016: The Editor’s Word #21, by Mike Resnick The Vampire’s New Clothes, by Martin Shoemaker Penguins of Noah’s Ark, by Larry Hodges At the Mouth of the River of Bees, by Kij Johnson The World That You Want, by Laurie Tom Capricorn Games, by Rober...

Here's the Table of Contents for #20, which comes out/goes live on May 1: The Editor’s Word, by Mike Resnick Lord of the Cul de Sac, by Auston Habershaw Ponies, by Kij Johnson Tomorrow’s Forecast, by Zach Shephard Stitches, by Nick DiChario Capricorn Games, by Robert Silverberg Just Another Night at...

Stewart, I've got it. Just back from the Sail to Success Cruise, so I'm a bit behind. I'll get back
to you within the next 10 days.

Mike

Here's the Table of Contents for issue #18, which goes live on January 1: The Editor’s Word, by Mike Resnick The Bone Runner, by Jennifer Campbell-Hicks Wiping Out, by Robert J. Sawyer Full Skies, No Water, by Lou J. Berger The Press of the Infinite Black, by Rene Sears Second Person Unmasked, by Ja...

Here's the Table of Contents for Galaxy's Edge #17, which goes live on November 1: The Editor’s Word, by Mike Resnick From the Moment I Laid Eggs in You, by Josh Vogt Kill Me, by Sabina Theo Out of Africa, by David Drake Elizabethtown, by Eric Cline Wait ’Til Next Year, by Jody Lynn Nye The First Du...

I can't speak to an editor not knowing me (tho once upon a time, back in the Eocine, none of them did), but I do have a story about a rejection. I had sold Gardner Dozois maybe 15 stories in a row with never a turn-down when he was editing Asimov's, and then he rejected a story of mine called "...

I have an editorial. Every issue (except the last one) it appears as "The Editor's Word". Honest.

-- Mike

Here's the table of contents for #16, which goes on sale September 1: The Editor’s Word, by Mike Resnick Recipe: 1 Universe, by Effie Seiberg Airborne All the Way, by David Drake Dreidel of Dread, by Alex Shvartsman Cyberplant, by Marina J. Lostetter Red Letter Day, Kristine Kathryn Rusch The Ides o...

Not to brag, he bragged, but I just sold "Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge" for a 24th time.

-- Mike Resnick

Here's the line-up for Galaxy's Edge #15, which goes on sale July 1: THE EDITOR’S WORD: THE END OF WORLDCON AS WE KNOW IT – Mike Resnick THE COLOSSAL DEATH RAY – Ron Collins MULTIPLES – Robert Silverberg MISS DARCY’S FIRST INTERGALACTIC BALLET CLASS – Dantzel Cherry TIDAL EFFECTS – Jack McDevitt DO ...

A couple of years ago you -were- crazy to think so. Today you are welcome to
brag about your sales and rub it in. And I -still- congratulate you.

Mike

100,000 sales is damned impressive. I congratulate you.

-- Mike Resnick

Contents for #14, going live on May 1: The Editor’s Word, by Mike Resnick Field Defects: A Memo from a Cyborg, by Robert A. Heinlein Shore Leave, by Jennifer Campbell-Hicks Hi, Colonic, by Harry Turtledove Luck of the Chieftain’s Arrow, by C. Stuart Hardwick The Angst, I Kid You Not, of God, by Mich...

Just came across this. I've sold more than 75 novels, close to 300 stories, maybe a couple of hundred articles, and have never copyrighted any of them before selling them. Screenplays are different. Producers make rapacious publishers look like milquetoasts, and I register everything I do -- outline...

Table of Contents – Galaxy’s Edge #13 The Editor’s Word, by Mike Resnick The Ties That Bind, The Chains That Break, by Liz Colter Johnny Come Home, by Pat Cadigan Gyre, by Brad R. Torgersen (Sargasso Containment story) Doing Lennon, by Gregory Benford June 16th at Anna’s, by Kristine Kathryn Rusch T...

E.CaimanSands> Name 50 science fiction writers. At least 48 of them came out of slush piles.
If you're good enough, so will you.

Mike

There seems to be a lot of curiosity and some misinformation about slush, so I thought I'd run this column, which was an editorial I wrote for Jim Baen's Universe a few years ago. It's still every bit as true. Everyone talks about slush, but no one does anything about it. Except read it. Very reluct...

Believe it or not, editors would rather have to choose between great stories than search for enough
barely publishable ones.

-- Mike Resnick

Galaxy’s Edge #12 – Table of Contents -- goes live on January 1 The Editor’s Word – Mike Resnick A Little Song, A Little Dance – Robert T. Jeschonek Counterfactual – Gardner Dozois Curtain Call – Sandra M. Odell Special Economics – Maureen F. McHugh Game Not Over – Ron Friedman All You Zombies – Rob...

Established authors don't go into the slush pile (though of course they did before they became established authors.) Back in the late 1990s, when I was doing the "Ask Bwana" column for Speculations, one of the questions concerned the odds of getting out of the slush pile. I contacted Gardn...

Gossamer: No, it's been something like 30 years since I haven't gotten a fast report. I don't sell everything the first time out, about 10% bounce, but it saves me the trouble of having to simultaneously submit. As an editor, I've run into it a couple of times (not with Galaxy's Edge), and I just sa...