Recent News

November 24, 2006

The other day our editor burst into my office. Spattered from head to toe in gore and other bodily fluids, his eyes gleaming insanely, waving a blood-stained document in the air, exultantly screaming, "I did it! And I enjoyed every single second!"

After calming him down – you know, the usual… three big tubs of ice-cold water and a half dozen virgins, or so – I managed to pry the paper from his clenched fist. This is his confession: My Big Fat Secret.

September 10, 2006

Another mini-rant from the editor, expanding on the theme of the hidden: The Power of the Hidden.

August 10, 2006

Offices Closed
August 11, 2006 to August 22, 2006

This is the week we let the clerks hunt fresh meat in the wild. Please don't worry—they are kept on a government-sanctioned, military-patrolled range at a secret base in the Rockies. The chances of them escaping and getting to your town are much less than they were last year when that happened.

In any case, if you are still alive to read this, we won't be responding to any requests for submission codes or any such Materiel of the Daily Grind until 08/22/06. Don't panic. Grab your towel. We'll be back on duty soon.

July 30, 2006

Bowing to the inevitable, we now accept
e-mail manuscript submissions. Just be sure to obtain your e-mail submission code, so we can keep track of your manuscript. Manuscripts submitted without a MS# will be consigned to the nethermost regions of the trash bin – do not pass Go; do not collect 200 karmic brownie points!

For the Luddite authors among you, we will still accept snail-mail manuscript submissions.

May 2, 2006

A mini-rant from the editor: Revealing the Hidden. Okay, less of a rant and more like "fatherly" advice (or at least as fatherly as our editor is likely to get).

February 1, 2006

We really hate having to do this, but in order to keep the spammers from wasting our time, we're running with our spam filters set on deep-fat fry. For those of you with a legitimate reason for contacting us, here's some advice on getting your e-mail thru our spam filters. First, make sure you include a subject line – e-mails without a subject line are automatically trashed. And make that subject relevant to the content – something like: "An Inquiry About Book Submissions"; just an RE, or Hi, or Hey, or Hello is also automatically trashed. Second, spelling counts – e-mails with mispelled words in the subject line or body are automatically trashed. Third, grammar also counts – e-mails with egregious grammar errors in the subject line or body are automatically trashed. And finally, leave the CC and BCC fields blank – e-mails with anything in those fields are automatically trashed. If you need to send a copy to someone other than us, just forward the original e-mail.