On editing a horror anthology
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darkling_talesLJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY marlowe1)
Last year solely because I wanted to be published I edited an anthology entitled Teddy Bear Cannibal Massacre - somewhere in the editing process I decided not to include my story in the thing because I wanted it to be as professional as possible, and that meant making sure that every story was as good as it could be (I blamenihilistic_kid and nick_kaufmann for their HWA related posts and mocking of those that just put out garbage) which meant that I was hard on the writers that I accepted for publication and lost two friends in the process. They wrote good stories but with very clumsy prose.
However, I spent most of the time wading through crap horror stories that I couldn't even begin to publish or work with - including the then publisher's girlfriend's vampire story (I hate vampires) - stories with people sticking things into their eye sockets, cute stories, stories with explicit alien sex that were just crude.
And I also beggedjourdannex for her lj entries whcih are not horror at all - but very funny.
What came out is that I have an anthology with 11 stories that have nothing to do with each other with 2 writers from Australia, two from Britain - one that's from New Jersey but trying to sound British.
And of the two reviews - Vas Littlecrow and Paul McAvoy there are maybe two taht they agree on - and the ones they disagree on are stark disagreements. (I personally like Vas's because even when she hates a story she makes people curious - while Paul's sounds like a quarterly evaluation)
So yeah - that's my introduction. This looks like a cool group.
marlowe1)Last year solely because I wanted to be published I edited an anthology entitled Teddy Bear Cannibal Massacre - somewhere in the editing process I decided not to include my story in the thing because I wanted it to be as professional as possible, and that meant making sure that every story was as good as it could be (I blame
nihilistic_kid and nick_kaufmann for their HWA related posts and mocking of those that just put out garbage) which meant that I was hard on the writers that I accepted for publication and lost two friends in the process. They wrote good stories but with very clumsy prose.However, I spent most of the time wading through crap horror stories that I couldn't even begin to publish or work with - including the then publisher's girlfriend's vampire story (I hate vampires) - stories with people sticking things into their eye sockets, cute stories, stories with explicit alien sex that were just crude.
And I also begged
jourdannex for her lj entries whcih are not horror at all - but very funny.What came out is that I have an anthology with 11 stories that have nothing to do with each other with 2 writers from Australia, two from Britain - one that's from New Jersey but trying to sound British.
And of the two reviews - Vas Littlecrow and Paul McAvoy there are maybe two taht they agree on - and the ones they disagree on are stark disagreements. (I personally like Vas's because even when she hates a story she makes people curious - while Paul's sounds like a quarterly evaluation)
So yeah - that's my introduction. This looks like a cool group.
