Sory for the lack of posting in the past few days. The release of Issue 12, and then me and my whole family getting sick, slowed us down considerably. I think we knew we were all getting sick even back around the 30th, but we beat it back until after our party and the release; then it hit us hard, and we’re still recovering.

The party was a lot of ( Read more... )

The long-awaited LGBTQ issue of Crossed Genres has been released!

FICTION:
“Crawl” by Kate Bachus
“Cold” by Melissa S. Green
“Finished” by C.A. Young
“The Tale of the Innocent Little Mermaid Statue” by Megan Rose Gedris
(with accompanying art)
“Mismatch” by Shay Darrach
“Heart of Venus” by Michael G. Farquhar
“Stay” by Angela Kroeger
“Woodwork” by ( Read more... )

Eventually, I lost count of all the posts and retweets about the rejected ad. A lot more people read about it than commented, though… as near as I can tell, over 1,100 different people have read the post since it went up, and that’s just here on the website. I don’t have tracking numbers for Livejournal, Facebook, etc.

I can’t even begin to track ( Read more... )

The pdf edition of Issue 8 is pretty much done. I got the entire thing reformatted to 8.5″ x 11″. But I realized that I hadn’t properly sized the cover to 8.5 x 11, so I couldn’t do the merging of the various pieces (I was at work). I’ll do the sizing over the weekend (it doesn’t take long) and merge the pieces when I get back to my day job on ( Read more... )

Not the end, obviously. There is no true end. But at least the completion of Issue 8 has appeared on the horizon.

The Print, online and Kindle editions are essentially finished. Still waiting for one last biography, which is really ticking me off since I’ve emailed twice about it already. If I don’t have something by tomorrow then the bio’s ( Read more... )

Up until late on Friday I’d actually forgotten that today is Father’s Day. Go figure. Had a great day; my son got me a great gift (apparently he picked it out himself, although he had a bit of help paying for it); watched a movie with my wife (The Forbidden Kingdom - not as bad as I’d feared); had takeout, and most importantly, I played with ( Read more... )

More editing was done today. It’s going a bit slowly, but it’s coming along.

I heard back from the writer to whom I sent an embarrassingly formalized email. Fortunately he didn’t take offense at it.

Because the Flash Fiction contest is only open for submissions for a few more days, I made a couple of ( Read more... )

Since last night’s post was really an announcement about the release of Issue 7, I thought i should do an actual day-in-the-life post.

We ended up with almost exactly the same number of submissions as last month - 2 fewer to be precise. That’s not counting the submissions we received which are outside the size range we accept. The number of those ( Read more... )

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Since I took Friday off from my day job, I just spent a 3-day weekend - the first 3 days of May - doing basically 3 things:

1) Uploading Issue 6, making announcements and the various other sundry things that go with Release Time.
2) Reading, reading and a bit more ( Read more... )

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First: in less than an hour (where we are) It’ll be Earth Day! In recognition of this we’re offering an incentive to help keep Crossed Genres afloat and avoid killing trees at the same time: For Wednesday only, get a year’s subscription to the E-Book of Crossed ( Read more... )