Production Meeting Report

We had a great Production Meeting over the weekend! Editors Grayson, Nikki, and Candi were especially awesome! Your hard work is appreciated. :) Huzzzah!
Thank you to all the editors for reading slush in a timely manner. :)

If you submitted a story for the fabulous February 2022 issue: Thank You!
All the authors we received stories from that we couldn't use have received rejections from us by now. (Aw!) Please try again.
A few acceptances haven't quite gone out yet, but will this week. These take a little longer because they require contracts and additional info and instructions.

We had a bunch of really excellent stories which means we will attempt to ...publish six stories for this issue, rather than the traditional five. Here's hoping that works out!
We have also selected some very nice art! Here's hoping that works out, as well! :)

You may be wondering why or if our acceptances don't always work out.
We accept simultaneous submissions, so sometimes authors sell their stories elsewhere before we can publish them.
A couple times in the long history of the 'zine, authors and story editors were unable to agree on edits. In those cases, we released the pieces.
Finally, our time for acceptance for art is a bit longer than for fiction, so sometimes art is no longer available.

Next week I'll start bragging about the fabulous February 2022 issue of Electric Spec!