Editor Fisher

As we work hard behind the scenes on the fabulous February 2023 issue of Electric Spec, we're pleased to announce a new associate editor: Collette Fisher.

Collette Fisher grew up on a farm in eastern Iowa, got degrees from Michigan State University (German and math) and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (library science). She worked in the library of the chancery office of the Archdiocese of Freiburg, Germany for 41 years, and lives with her husband in Titisee-Neustadt, Germany. She has published "Blue Sunset", inspired by Spoon River Anthology and The Martian Chronicles, electronically and has had stories published in Fiction River, Pulphouse, Penumbric Speculative Fiction, Alien Dimensions, 4 Star Stories, Fabula Argentea, The Lorelei Signal, Dark Horses, Wyldblood Magazine, and other magazines and anthologies.

She says: I encourage all writers to keep submitting while continuing to write new stories. You never know who will love which story you have written. It could indeed be the next one you write that is the one everyone will remember. At a workshop in 2018 I asked two successful writers how many rejections I should "collect" for a story before I gave up and just published it myself. One writer said "50", and the other said "75". I have decided to follow this advice.

Thanks for the advice, Collette! And welcome aboard!