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kaolin fire
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Sister Coyote
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kaolin fire
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| Posted 5/21/2007 1:37 PM (GMT -5) | | The conversation for the title went something like: "We don't want to be the greatest _common_ denominator. That sucks. We want to be the greatest _uncommon_ denominator. Hmm. GUD. good. Hey!"
I'm not particularly fond of themes, but each editor does have their own peculiar tastes, and we try to post about that for each issue, on the submission guidelines page above the form to submit. I know Debbie's currently planning to make her issue at least the slightest bit "flying things" themed. Airplanes, derigibles, ...
At the gut level, I'm looking for stuff that makes me go "SQUEE! I HAVE TO SHOW THIS TO SOMEBODY! NO, I HAVE TO SHOW THIS TO LOTS OF SOMEBODIES!" What exactly that is is hard to define, but _in general_ it has to be something that is crafted exceedingly well and says or does something new to me. The hardest things to get by us in terms of genre are likely to be high fantasy, pulp sci-fi, and space opera. They have certain patterns that are too easy to fall into, that make for a good story but don't make a lasting impression.
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kaolin fire
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| Posted 5/22/2007 3:27 AM (GMT -5) | | Firlefanz said...In your guidelines, you state that GUD Submission Guidelines said...
We want first world electronic and print rights (...), and we would like the right to archive the work indefinitely. We were just having a discussion of copyright (and its reversion to authors after sales drop to a certain level) elsewhere on this board, in connection with Schuster & Schuster, if I remember correctly. From what I gathered there, archiving a story "forever" basically means giving up copyright for the author. Or did I miss something there?
A complicated question, and one that might result in a lot of back and forth, so if you don't mind I'll make it a new post...
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Firlefanz
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kaolin fire
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| Posted 5/23/2007 1:54 PM (GMT -5) | | Our slush process is driven, in part, by our rotating editorship--and each editor is dictator of the content of their issue (though we've declared ahead of time a common goal of what GUD is/should be, that we're all trying to fill). My intent, which is not always the reality of things, is that the editor would personally review every item that came in while reading for their issue--to make sure nothing they would fall in love with was lost. The success of this varies depending on schedules, life crises, and the like.
The "supporting staff" can give voice to their preferences to help the editor in his/her selection, but it's the editor that makes the call of "live or die"--excepting in the case where one of the staff calls "dibs" on it, at which point they've if nothing else saved it from a quick death. This means they like it enough, they want to try to hold on to it until their next issue, whenever that might be ((we try not to hold longer than an issue... but we do contemplate it)). Dibsing does not prevent the current editor from taking it for their own, still.
Once enough content is brought together, and we pool our money (ulp--around $2k for content per issue), the editor starts sending out acceptance letters. Anything shorlisted that doesn't make it and isn't dibsed by another editor is let go.
We'd like to not hold onto maybes that long, but that's how things have been working so far.
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TL Morganfield
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| Posted 12/4/2007 12:09 PM (GMT -5) | | Kaolin,
Do you know how much longer the submission window will be open for issue 3 and typically how long after the window closes are the final story selections made?
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Forthcoming stories:
"What Makes Us Strong" in Atomjack, November 2007 "My Sweet Andromache" in Nanobison, December 2007
Available stories:
"Love, Blood and Octi" in Paradox, October 2007
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cussedness
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TL Morganfield
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| Posted 12/17/2007 6:47 PM (GMT -5) | | I think it's a reasonable change too. Most magazines do it that way anyway.
Thanks for the answers, Kaolin!
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Forthcoming stories:
"My Sweet Andromache" in Nanobison, December 2007
"So Weeps the Thunderbird" in Lilith Unbound, TBA
Available stories:
"What Makes Us Strong" in Atomjack, November 2007
"Love, Blood and Octi" in Paradox, October 2007
"The Divine Conquest of Mexico" in Sorcerous Signals, August 2007
"The Last Arabian Prince" in Atomjack, November 2006
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