Regarding Issue 13 and Flashing Swords

[Nevebaci]

By now I'm sure that all of Issue 13's contributors have received this e-mail

Somebody said...
Because of a downturn in the economy and several disasters, I am indefinitely suspending publication of Flashing Swords and returning all rights to your stories.
We, at Daverana Enterprises, will be continuing to do novels and collections for the time being.
I am doing this with a great deal of regret because all of you are excellent authors.
I wish you every success with your writing.

~ Janrae Frank

This suspension is not a hoax, hiccup or even a temporary set back. To say that I am gutted by this decision is an understatement. I really enjoyed working with each and every one of the contributors for issue 13 and I was really looking forward to editing issue 14 over the holidays. I had some really fabulous stuff lined up!

I can only hope that I conducted my first foray as an editor both ethically and professionally. I also hope that all of you that I delt with personally regarding edits and acceptances for the now defunct issues understand just how grateful I am that you chose Flashing Swords in the first place. It has been a pleasure and an honour to read your efforts. Thank you.

Neve

There is a difference between the man who is wise and cynical and the man who acts like Scrooge with a lemon up his bum. Which are you?

[erazmus]

Well, that sucks. Sorry to see it go.

Mike

Michael D. Turner
'Psyched Up' in _Turn the other Chick_-ed. E. Friesner-Baen books
www.baen.com
'Dutchman Rescue'in Continuum SF #6
www.continuumsciencefiction.com/orders.htm

'An Incident at Black Tongue Tavern' in _Bash Down the Door and Slice Open the Badguy_ from Fantasist Enterprises:

www.fantasistent.com/books/anthologies/BASH.php
'Pink Plastic Flamingos''What Smitty Saw' 'Elvis's Space Alien Lovechild' 'Two Ravens''Rejection' (forthcoming) in Big Pulp
www.bigpulp.com/index.html
'Stains''Two ravens''Job Security' 'Yeti Yet' 'Characters in Flight'(forthcoming)in Tales of the Talisman 3-1 www.zianet.com/hadrosaur/index.html
'Morning Coffee''Happy Landings''Teller of Tales''Silver Shells''I'm tired of Bombs, and my dog is dead' 'One Dark Night'in Every Day Fiction
www.everydayfiction.com
'The Jewel Below' 'Mo the Mountain' in Flashing Swords
flashingswords.sfreader.com
Read 'Silver Shells' In The Best of Every Day Fiction
www.everydayfiction.com/features/the-best-of-every-day-fiction-2008/

[darkbow]

Sorry to see it, but good luck in future endeavors.

The Kobalos Trilogy
City of Rogues, available for the Kindle and at Smashwords
Road to Wrath, available for the Kindle and at Smashwords
Dark King of the North, available for the Kindle and at Smashwords

Non-fiction
An Amateur Beer Snob's Guide to Beer, for the Kindle and at Smashwords


Short stories
"Forlorn" at Deadman's Tome, "Beneath a Persian Sun" upcoming in Carnivah House's "Infinity Swords" anthology, "Zombie Tears" at Dark Fire, "Devil and Devil Damned" at Flashes in the Dark, "The Death of Lester Williams" in the anthology Deadlines, "Deep in the Land of the Ice and Snow" in "The Return of the Sword" anthology, "The Way the Sunlight Lies Upon Her Hair" at Every Day Fiction

For more, check out my blog at www.tyjohnston.blogspot.com</A></A>

[Nevebaci]

Thank you.

There is a difference between the man who is wise and cynical and the man who acts like Scrooge with a lemon up his bum. Which are you?

[DraperJC]

Very sorry to see things turn out this way.

Makes you wonder about the nature of recessions. Generally everybody just stops doing stuff and then, after a while, no one is able to do stuff. Frustrating.

Joshua 24:15b 'As for me and my house...'

My blog, full of writing lessons, reviews, and the occasional travelogue: Scriptorius Rex

[che2000]

Dang - it looked for a while as if things might turn around for FS. Sorry to see it go, it was a great mag.


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