Interzone

[lizwilliams]

As of today, following discussions, it would appear that I have joined the Interzone editorial team.

I've had a long, if informal, association with the magazine from the days when it was published in my then-home town of Brighton. David Pringle is a good friend and I've a lot of admiration for him for keeping the magazine going, even and perhaps especially in its later days. It was the first magazine to publish me (not the first to accept one of my stories, but the first to publish) and I owe it a huge debt of gratitude for helping to kick off my writing career. When it moved up the country, there was general agreement that this was a sound solution.

Andy Cox has now asked me to come on board and I am happy to do so.

Comments

[alexmc.livejournal.com]

Congratulations

[chrisbutler.livejournal.com]

Jaw hits floor!

How absolutely marvellous!

[klingonguy.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

Now maybe my epic adventure of a young thoat's quest to leave behind his origins in a squalid Martian orphanage and open the red planet's first interspecies deli as a stepping stone to a bid for god-emperor and put an end to a centuries' old policy of random immolation of bookstore owners will have a chance of rising out of the slush pile. Or maybe not.

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

But this sounds right up my street! Send it to me immediately!

Perhaps this might be a good moment to point out to everyone else who has thoat stories less accomplished than those of Klingonguy, that I won't actually be reading the slush per se. Andy and Jetse do that and then pass things on to me.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[ex-triciasu.livejournal.com]

that's fantastic news--congratulations to you and to interzone!

[merriehaskell.livejournal.com]

V. cool news, Liz!

[lisamantchev.livejournal.com]

Confetti! :)

[shadowhelm.livejournal.com]

w00t! Congrats!!!

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

Thank you, folks. This is a very recent development and, indeed, a complete shock. But I'm very pleased it has come about.

[dsgood.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

That's great news! I expect the high quality of the magazine to get even better :) Congrats, and have fun with it!

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

>I expect the high quality of the magazine to get even better

Depends how many stories about thoats I decide to ask Andy and Jetse to consider.

(This thoat thing, BTW: it started with BANNER OF SOULS, which had some of its inception in the novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs. My friend Klingonguy asked me what kind of a Martian novel could it be, if it didn't have thoats? It still doesn't. But if I write any more, I'll put a thoat-esque creature in).

[kefiraahava.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[mt-yvr.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! And others beat me to the punch line of wanting to sidle up and mutter "I've got this story, see..."

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! Andy Cox made a wise decision.

[wishus.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[ianmcdonald.livejournal.com]

That's rather fab --quite an honour.

[vaughan-stanger.livejournal.com]

Delighted to hear it, Liz. I'm sure Interzone will do even better with you on board.

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

I hope so! Thank you.

[dsgood.livejournal.com]

And, of course, you need to put in Martian whisky: Cutty Thark.

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

LOL!

[hollowpoint.livejournal.com]

That's great news! So are you joining the trio or Jetse with the email subs? Thinking about it, four editors is going to make the voting on stories a bit more tricky.

I'll keep an eye open for the official announcement! :)

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

Not sure yet - we're still finalising the details. This is all fairly sudden (at least from my point of view!)

[hollowpoint.livejournal.com]

Best of luck with it - I look forward to reading the fruits of your labour!

[benpeek.livejournal.com]

cool--congrats.

[nwhyte]

Excellent!

[greeneyedkzin.livejournal.com]

They couldn't have chosen a better person.

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

Thank you! What a kind thing to say!

[yvonneh.livejournal.com]

That's brilliant, for you and for us, the humble readers! Yvonne

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

Thanks! And I am a humble reader too, in one of my hats. I know what I like to read, but whether that will translate into what IZ likes to publish....we shall see.

[(Anonymous)]

At the risk of sounding old-fashioned, it's also good to have a woman who's a published writer in a high-profile position in the business - especially one who writes kick-ass SF.

Yvonne

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

Andy Cox has always been encouraging of women in the business - he wrote to me early on to ask me to send material into TTA because he didn't think enough women were doing so.

IZ has traditionally had female input in the form of Lee Montgomery (she was one of the first people to edit me), but I think she stopped editing for them at some point in the late 90s.

Mind you, if you look at the field over the last few years, there's been a high percentage of women - at Bantam, Gollancz, Harper Collins and Roc particularly, and also in Asimov's and Realms, of course.