Hi Everyone,
I’m about to ask for your help with something. As I noted when I announced that Shawna and I would be coming back, there are a number of submissions that were in various states of consideration when the magazine announced its closure. The only right thing to do was release these manuscripts from consideration. Now, the manuscripts I had that were going to be passed along to Shawna were discarded. In the interests of goodwill, I’ve subsequently contacted all of these authors and invited them to resubmit their manuscripts to me via email if they’re so inclined. (PLEASE NOTE: this is a special exception made just for them under the circumstances–we’re still at this time just accepting submissions via snail mail).
However, there are also quite a number of submissions that are sitting with Shawna, enough that I thought it would be a good idea to post this note. Here’s the thing: Shawna is going to have a lot of reading ahead of her as we build the magazine’s fiction inventory back up. Since I don’t have the manuscripts, it would drive me rather insane to hunt down all of the email addresses to all of the authors who have stories with Shawna. And it would be rather time consuming for Shawna to email all of these people to see if they’d like their manuscripts to still be considered. Then she’d also still have to wait to hear back, which eats up more time. I’d rather Shawna be able to use this time to read stories as we get the magazine caught up. Some folks have already told me they still want their stories to be considered. But I’d like to hear from the rest of you. If you had a story that was with Shawna and would still like it to be considered, please email me (slushmaster@gmail.com) and tell me the name of your story. It will save Shawna the trouble of reading a story that has since been withdrawn. It also wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world to let me know you’re officially withdrawing your story or that you’ve already sold it elsewhere.
So here’s where you come in, Internets. Blog about this. Tweet about this. Facebook about this. Help us out. As Picard would say, “Make it so.”
Thanks all.
ETA: Please don’t contact me regarding general slush submissions. Not that those stories aren’t important, but it will just create too much confusion. We’ll figure this out a little later, thanks.
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This is probably a silly question, but should we assume if we hadn’t heard anything that our submissions were not with Shawna and consider resubmitting?
I’m sorry, but I’m not fully understanding your question. Did you submit something and never heard back about it?
Correct. I had received the note saying that the magazine was closing down and that my manuscript was released to be submitted elsewhere. I just didn’t want to clog up your guy’s email box if it was necessary, seeing as how your all going to be pretty busy getting the magazine back up and running.
Sorry, that should have been unnecessary to clog up your inbox, not necessary.
I’m not sure who controls the ROF Twitter feed, but it’s real easy for us to retweet if you post something there.
Well, for a long time the Twitter account had been inactive, but it looks like the new publishers have dusted it off: http://twitter.com/RealmsOfFantasy I have the new password, so when I can take a breath I’ll post it there myself.
Hi,
Are you accepting new submissions? I was about to send something just when the notice came that the magazine was closing down. Now I want to send it again.
I’m happy to see ROF will still be with us.
Thanks.
Yes, as has been noted, we’re open to submissions. Guidelines here: http://www.rofmag.com/contact-us/