ReaderCon is one of my favorite conventions, and I’m really excited about this year.  I’ll be arriving on Friday, July 9th and staying through Sunday.  I’ll be on one panel, hosting a kaffeeklatsch for Sybil’s Garage, and doing a reading.  Here’s my schedule: Beneath Ceaseless Skies Reading – Friday, 6pm Reading with several BCS authors.  I’ll be reading an excerpt from “The Suffering Gallery.” The New and Improved Future of Magazines – Friday, 8:30pm, Salon G Bradford, Clarke, Gorinsky, Ga. Grant, Kressel Sybil’s Garage Kaffeeklatsch – Sunday, 1pm, Vineyard Kressel & editors from Sybil’s …

I’m trying to get Sybil’s Garage completed in time for Readercon, just about seventeen days from now.  So far I’ve laid out the text and included minimal artwork and call-outs.  I still have the marginalia to add, as well the cover to design.  The latter of which I expect to take a few days by itself because the cover has to be spectacular.  I don’t think a cover makes a book but it can certainly break one.  All of this is a lot of work for sure, but it’s also …

If you or anyone you know would like to advertise in Sybil’s Garage, you can download our Sybil’s Garage No. 7 – Rate Card. Sybil’s Garage has a loyal fan-base of several hundred regular readers from all over the world, and each issue is hand-delivered or mailed to many important industry professionals.  Your ad will be seen by a large fraction of the speculative-fiction community.  Issue number seven in particular will be available to more markets than ever before, including Amazon.com, listing in the Ingram book distribution database which sells to …

I have finally finished reading slush for Sybil’s Garage No. 7.  We have 28 short stories under consideration and I expect to take just over half of those for the issue.  Many thanks to my hard-working slush readers Rajan Khanna, Greer Woodward, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Devin Poore, Mercurio Rivera and Paul Berger for helping me read the 540 submissions that came in this period.  Expect to hear a little bit about each of them and their experiences working for Sybil’s in the next few weeks.  Also, I hope to have …

Here are the Sybil’s Garage submission stats to date. We have received 540 stories, 98 poems We have rejected 485 stories, 66 poems Average response time: 18 days for stories, 28 days for poems I have 31 stories left to read and 24 poems left to read.  I have 24 stories and one poem under consideration.  I’m a little behind on my May 1 deadline to finish reading all stories, but I hope to have everything read by the end of this week.  Please query if you have any questions.