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Slight updates to guidelines. Status.

Posted on 2009-12-03 at 15:30 by montsamu

We've made some updates to our guidelines and wanted to briefly highlight them:

1. Explanation of logarithmic word count share for anthologies;
2. We will accept attachments of any kind (as long as we can read them!) in future submissions periods;
3. We will accept two story submissions per author, per submissions period, to avoid a common occurrence this time around of having already accepted a story on one or the other side of the speculative fiction spectrums and not giving enough time for a follow-up submission;
4. Cap

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Progress, slow and steady.

Posted on 2009-11-27 at 06:27 by montsamu

Already a week overdue on finalizing responses, I am afraid it will likely be a week more yet before every story gets its proper evaluation and response. Please do rest assured that each one will be fully considered in time, and that the main reason for delay is in the interest of allowing such consideration.

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Reading and reading and reading. And reading. And translating.

Posted on 2009-11-20 at 03:39 by montsamu

Apologies for the slower responses to your submissions than anticipated. There's been enough stories that we truly enjoyed that if we could we'd fill a little (or not so little) anthology.

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We are now closed for submissions until 1 February 2010.

Posted on 2009-11-16 at 05:00 by montsamu

Thanks everyone, so much for your submissions. We have so very many excellent stories to re-read and consider, and are, frankly, a bit overwhelmed. So much in just 10 days! All this really means is (1) submissions from now forward will be returned unread; and (2) we hope to actually finish selections in a week to ten days instead of that window moving further and further forward as more great stories come in.

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Heads up: will be closing submissions for this reading period at midnight Sunday night EST.

Posted on 2009-11-12 at 21:09 by montsamu

We've received so many great submissions, and many other ones quite good, besides. We promised to keep submissions open for 10 days and Sunday night at midnight EST will be that minimum. To be fair to ourselves, our day jobs, our families, and the stories we've already received that we'd be happy to end up selecting, we're going to close for submissions of original short stories at that time so that we can finish our selection process for this first submissions period.

So: keep 'em coming until then! For the

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Request for comments: a mutiny on the bounty.

Posted on 2009-11-11 at 15:05 by montsamu

We're still tinkering with how we want to approach original works publication. (For benefit works, initial publication will be in Creative Commons BY-NC-ND or less restrictive at the author's request.) First, again, we'll never, ever sue or threaten to sue anyone for copyright infringement, etc. (Several reasons for this, let us know if you really want the speech on it.) What we're trying to do is both find a way to (1) give us a chance at being the 'authoritative' source for the files for a short period

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Call for discussion: ads on the blog.

Posted on 2009-11-11 at 13:58 by montsamu

We don't think we'll need to do ads, and don't particularly want to and may not anyway, but what do our communities think of some minimal ads on the blog (only: never in e-books or audiobooks) to help make sure we can break even and keep going as long as we can? We would treat any ad revenue for the site as if it were a direct donation to the site as described in the "UPDATE" portion of "The BULL SPEC dollar."

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Closed for reprint submissions.

Posted on 2009-11-10 at 18:02 by montsamu

We are now closed for reprint submissions. Our capacity for reprint production work is full for 6 months, and we'll post an update when we re-open for reprints in about three months. Original submissions are still open and welcome.

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Insanity, we has it.

Posted on 2009-11-10 at 15:19 by montsamu

We would have liked to have this lined up for our "coming out party" last Friday, and it may be a tiny bit premature, but we're in talks to provide video versions of some stories in American Sign Language, accept incoming video stories in American Sign Language, accept incoming stories in text or audio in Hindi, and provide text and audio versions of some stories in Hindi. There's other bits we won't mention yet as they would be even more premature, but things are COOKING, folks, and we couldn't be more

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Two more days of reading.

Posted on 2009-11-10 at 03:20 by montsamu

Another little update on progress on the submissions inbox. There were 2 more stories which trickled in late Saturday, and a nice little stream continued Sunday and Monday. Everybody should have at least received an acknowledgement by now, so if you haven't, please give submissions at bullspec dot com a ping. It's hard rejecting any of these stories and our "short list" is starting to grow. Thanks so much for trusting your stories to a new market.

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