Yesterday the general public got its first glimpse at a sneak peek of the LGBTQ issue’s cover art. Or at least, those who visited Tor.com did. Pablo Defendini and Richard Rhorer delivered on their promise to host an ad for the LGBTQ issue on the Tor.com website for free for a couple of weeks leading up to the release, and a week after. If you go ( Read more... )

The first proof came in the mail today. WOW. The cover could not be more perfect. (Being the stickler that I am, I’m going to shift the title down and to the left just a touch before we submit for the 2nd proof. But otherwise… wow. A truly beautiful piece of work.

The inside looks great too. It has the lower-resolution versions of some of the ( Read more... )

We had a little blackout tonight. A fierce rainstorm knocked out the power on our block. It was only about 10 minutes, but it did knock us offline. Fortunately our son was already asleep and didn’t notice a thing.

The 2nd proof of Issue 11 arrived, and it’s a big improvement. It’s still a bit too purple for my tastes, but it’s clear and clean and ( Read more... )

We got another query today asking about our policy on profanity. We get this question pretty frequently. It is always better to ask though, and we don’t mind the question at all - we appreciate that you’d take care to consider the details.

I think I’ve said so here before, but I’m going to repeat my response to the query: We don’t object outright ( Read more... )

(NOTE: I don’t know why, but this never got posted. It was written a couple of days ago.)

I’m a bit depressed today. I just found out that Mary Travers passed away yesterday after a long fight with leukemia. I can’t remember a time in my life when I didn’t know “Leaving On A Jet Plane”, “I’m In Love With A Big Blue Frog”, and of course “Puff, the ( Read more... )

Today was an odd day. We got a lot done, but it kind of didn’t feel like it, because we weren’t scrambling to work on the current issue as much as possible. Still, we did make good progress on other things.

The majority of my CG time today was spent working on a new design for the inside of the print and PDF editions. I’ve always been unhappy with ( Read more... )