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EDF’s Calendar for October 30 September 2009

It’s the end of September already, and the lineup of stories for October is up at EDF. This will be an interesting month, since it’s the first one where Jordan has had virtually no input — September’s calendar still had a few stories that had been accepted by him but this one is all mine — and it’s also the first one where our new editor Elissa has had some influence. It will be interesting to see how the readers respond to the different stories.

October’s Table of Contents

It’s Official — I’m EDF’s Managing Editor! 2 September 2009

We changed the staff page today, so it’s public news: I am now the Managing Editor of Every Day Fiction.

Jordan’s new title — and just so everyone is clear, he’s not abandoning EDF at all, nor being pushed out, nor anything like that — is Executive Editor, which I think fits his new role perfectly. He’ll still be involved in the direction of the magazine, he just won’t be working on the day-to-day business of reading and accepting/rejecting submissions. The plan is that this will free up his time to do some of the things that we’ve always talked about but never were able to make time to do: promoting the site, organizing competitions, and so on.

This is a good thing for EDF. We’ve grown to the point where the magazine really does need someone in an executive role, handling the big picture, and Jordan does that really well.

This is also a good thing for me. I enjoy the hands-on editorial work and would miss it much more than Jordan will — I think I’d be unhappy in a purely executive role — and I’m already liking the power of being the final decision-maker for story acceptances.

I’m also excited to see what Jordan will do in his new role. We’ve already talked about something interesting for later this year… I can’t reveal it yet, it’s all confidential… but it’s going to be awesome!

EDF’s Calendar for September 31 August 2009

The lineup of stories for September is now posted at Every Day Fiction. I’m particularly proud of this one as it’s the first time I’ve had a direct hand in making final decisions on acceptances as well as rejections — Jordan has been away at the Writers of the Future awards gala for the whole past week so I’ve been completely on my own in finalizing the calendar, writing the editorial, etc.

I’ve also learned that making decisions about acceptances is even harder than making decisions about rejections.

Editorial musings aside, there are some really fine stories coming up this month.

September’s Table of Contents

Enjoy!