2010 draws to a close. Queries received before December were considered for the inaugural digest, while those received more recently will have to wait and see if they make it into issue two (slated for fall 2011).
We hoped to have the final lineup for volume one set by now. In fact, we hoped to have the first issue out by now! Neither has happened. This publication isn't a living for me - it isn't even a part-time job - so other things sometimes take precedence. That said, to those who were invited in October to submit complete manuscripts, you won't have much longer to wait. Some people have already been contacted, and everyone will hear in the first week of January.
I also want to thank everyone who has submitted since we started. I have been impressed with the interest writers have shown as well as the quality of the work we've received. As a writer, it's a bit depressing to realize books as solid as these have to fight to see publication in a POD digest paying next to nothing. Such is the life of the aspiring fiction author! The good news is that most of the work I've read shows promise--enough promise that the authors should stick with it. Call me an optimist, but it's my sincere belief that very few truly terrific books go unpublished. The one way to virtually guarantee you'll see print is to write an incredible book, and the only way to do that is to keep writing.
Volume one should be available early in 2011 (March?). I'll let you know here where it can be purchased. In the meantime, keep submitting. I don't post here often--it's a homepage, not really a blog--but we are always accepting submissions. All the best through the holidays.
- The Editor
