Monthly Archives: July 2016

Today I received three contributor's copies of Grain Vol. 43.3, the issue in which my latest story appears. The story was submitted to Grain on January 27, 2016, and accepted on May 27, 2016. This may be the shortest turn around time I have ever experienced. Well done, Elizabeth Philips! [...]

Once upon a time, most of an editorial board rejected one of my stories because it was "too dark" for their readers. The lone holdout, my champion, was overruled. If it had been a conversation, I might have said that if they thought that story was dark, they'd be permanently [...]