User talk:Mike-resnick

Kraang 02:58, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Submissions on hold
Hope you find this message. I have your submissions on hold. The way they are entered is not likely to result in the creation of the titles as you intended. The stories need to be inside a publication but in both cases there are some other problems. I think this one is a story that was recently sold to Asimov's. Can we wait until it's actually published? We generally keep current issues of the major magazines fairly well up to date. Idle Roomer was published on the Clarkesworld webzine. We still don't accept webzine submissions, especially after the Helix debacle, but I am going to check with others and see if they think it is OK to enter individual stories from webzines. The process of doing so takes a couple of intermediate steps. I wish everybody published webzines in downloadable formats as is done for Jim Baen's Universe. You can reply on this page.--swfritter 23:14, 8 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Since there was no response on the wiki, I sent an email to the submitter. Both submissions were rejected - one because the story submitted was added when Clarkesworld was added and one because it is a story that has been sold but not yet published.--swfritter 22:21, 30 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Text of email concerning submissions: First the bad news. I have rejected you two submissions. But the good news is that I have managed to add the entire Clarkesworld webzine data so now your "Idle Roomer" is in the database. For many and various reasons (say the disappeared Helix for one) we do not usually enter webzines. The Clarkesworld Hugo nomination was the basis for the argument to include it. I am also rejecting the "Soulmates" submission. We are actually doing a good job of adding data for the three major print pubs so it should show up when it is published.--swfritter 22:29, 30 March 2009 (UTC)