Another issue, another horribly missed deadline.
Honestly, we're working on catching up on the reading. The holidays
were exceptionally busy--in addition to the various family functions, we were
robbed on Christmas Day and lost a lot of computer equipment (and everything
saved on it).
We will flesh out this editorial at a later point (maybe), but there is one
thing we especially wanted to mention to everyone. Please, please, please
add
submissions@peglegpublishing.com to your non-spam list if you submit
something to us. We have actually had to pass on several pieces of
exceptional writing because we never heard back from the authors and had no
alternate contact information. We will do everything we can to get
in touch with you (we've even resorted to MySpace stalking authors!), but if we
don't hear back within a few weeks, we have no choice but to move on with the
issue.
We know you want to know the status of your submission, too, even if we're
passing on it. To that end, please make sure your spam guard isn't going
to send us off into the void. Also, please include your name and address
on your submission (we have actually had a few submissions with no name on
them!). Also, although we don't list it in our submission guidelines, feel
free to add your phone number as well. We have actually called an author
about a submission when we had no email address. We do what we can to
contact writers, but if all we have is a name, it can be very difficult.
Also, if you're changing email addresses, please drop us a line and let us know.
Include your name, your new email, the name of your submission(s) and, if
possible, the date you submitted.
As always, we appreciate everyone's patience and understanding. It
seems like we say it all the time, but GlassFire is a labor of love, but it
doesn't pay the bills. Real life has a way of interfering, it seems, with
every issue. But please don't let our tardiness turn you away from any of
our amazing writers and artists. We have incredibly talented people here,
and there's no doubt that GlassFire is only the beginning for them.
They're going far, and we're privileged to be able to publish their works.