Happy Holidays!

The Electric Spec staff are taking a little time off...
Best wishes and happy holidays to you and your families!

Year in review

At the end of the year, Locus, collects information/stats on all the speculative fiction magazines. Thus, I recently looked over the stats of Electric Spec to send them. Electric Spec is considered a non-profit semiprozine. We had about 1000 unique visitors per month 2023 and about 7600 hits per month.
Thank you, readers!

We continue to get hundreds of submissions for each issue. Thank you, authors!

I do recommend reading Locus' Year-in-Review for lots of great info about spec fic markets. The 2022 summary is here.
I'll try to post the 2023 review here in February (when it usually comes out) 2024.

What a wonderful issue!

We just published another wonderful issue of Electric Spec!
We were pleased to present:

• "Coffee with a Repentant Ghost" by Maureen Bowden--It's hard to let go of your best friend, especially when they keep showing up for coffee.
• "Whispers in the Wind" by Jess L Freed-- Being the chosen avatar of the wind only ever ends in tragedy. Is it possible to change fate?
• "I Am Your Demise" by Clifford Piel--Is death a mystery, or a puzzle that can be solved?
• "Meat Flower" by Ian Keith--Tom has a horrible affliction, but he can't see it, and nobody will tell him what it is. Until...
• "The Tank and the Grasshopper" by J Wallace--You might think a giant war engine would have every advantage over a tiny mechanical bug. You might be wrong.

In addition, in Editor's Corner, we have a fascinating interview with Associate Editor Bonnie Ramthun and an excerpt from her wonderful new middle grade fantasy series The Centerville Chronicles!
Check it all out!