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

[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.