Behind-the-scenes

To those of you who sent us stories for the marvelous May 2022 issue of Electric Spec, thank you very much!
(To those of you who didn't your stories in on time, don't worry. We're accepting stories for the awesome August 2022 issue!)

We are hard at work behind-the-scenes getting the new issue ready. What does this entail? Well, we have a veritable army of editors reading the submitted stories. Many stories have more than one editor consider them. Thus, the longer it takes to hear back from us, the better it usually is.
However, we never take more than four months to get back to authors. Sometimes, authors don't hear anything back. Unfortunately, that usually means the story got lost somewhere in cyberspace. (No idea why this happens occasionally.)
Anyway, keep any eye on your email for the editor's message. This will initially be a 'No. Thanks.' or a 'Maybe. Stay tuned.' message.

We are currently planning the Production Meeting for the beginning of May. At this meeting each editor presents their rankings of all the 'Maybe' stories from favorite to least favorite. And, then, the debates/games/kerfuffles begin! In recent years, each editor generally gets to successfully advocate for their favorite story and will end up working with that author.
So, at the meeting, we plan out the whole issue, from artwork to stories, to Editor's Corner. I'll tell you more about this later.

I better get back to work on slush!