02 May 2023

Notes from the Production Meeting

We recently had our Production Meeting for the upcoming marvelous May 2023 issue of Electric Spec! We had great quality stories in slush. If you submitted: Thank You Very Much!
I think all the rejections have gone out. (Check your spam/junk folder!) Editors are still contacting authors regarding acceptances. (Check your spam/junk folder!)
One of our editors saved the day by reading an extra amount of slush. (Thank you, Candi!)

We had a fun discussion on the pros and cons of ambiguous-ending stories. Do you like them or dislike them? Different editors had different opinions.
Oddly, we had a bunch of ghost stories that made it to hold-for-voting. Sadly, we could only choose one ghost story. It's curious how stories for a particular issue seem to have similar themes or topics. For example, this time we had ghosts and last time we had a bunch of twins/triplets stories. We are seeing more stories of high fantasy mashed up with other stuff; I've been enjoying those. We hardly had any hard SF this time. (Weird!) We are seeing fewer stories with a political axe to grind (Thank goodness!).

Next week I'll start bragging about our new stories! And, hopefully, we'll start hearing directly from our new authors!

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