We Want You To Succeed

The submission deadline for the awesome November 2023 issue of Electric Spec has passed. (But we are accepting submisisons for the February 2024 issue.) We editors are very busy getting through lots and lots of slush. We appreaciate all your submisisons. Thank you!
All the editors love reading fiction and sincerely want authors to succeed. We want to share lovely stories with readers! If you submitted, good luck to you!

As a consequence of all this, we editors have a lot to read right now. This is both wonderful and challenging.
I have some advice for potential Electric Spec authors...

• Please do submit rtf files. This is safer for our computers.
• Please do utilize standard manuscript formatting. A uniform text helps you. We can judge each story by its merits and not be distracted by weird formatting.
• Please do not inundate us with multiple stories at once. This contradicts our submission policy.
• Please do not utilize artificial intelligence to create your work. We only publish stories for and by humans.
• Please do not send us an unusual cover letter. The longer it is, the greater the possibility of offending an editor. No soap-boxing please. We just need the facts. But, be aware, we do require some kind of cover letter.

I'll leave it there. Stay tuned for more next week!