Weeds Update

I know we promised a final list soon, but life has a way of interfering with deadlines and emergencies and the flu. We're still working through the files. You should get an email from us in the next few days with the list of accepted stories. Frances and I are also working our way through some initial edits. Once we have the anthology mostly put together, we'll be sending it to Cyberwizard Productions for final typesetting and edits.

Timeline to publication? I don't have a date but I expect it should be sometime early in 2012. We'll be in touch with more information as we have it.

Thanks for your patience!

Captain's Log, stardate April 26

Just a note to let you know we are working on finalizing the anthology. We're reviewing submissions and sending out some rewriting suggestions. This is shaping up to be a fun story fest. Who knew that evil weeds would be such an entertaining topic?

Thanks for all who submitted to us. We appreciate your efforts whether you were accepted or not. Frances and I are both writers, too, so those rejections were hard to write and send out. We have felt your pain.

We should be getting in touch with those who were short-listed and letting you know our decision on your story. Once we have all the acceptances out, I'll post the ToC for you here. This has been a fun journey and definitely another learning experience for me. I'm looking forward to seeing the anthology in print.

For those unsure of the details, the anthology "Wandering Weeds: Tales of Rabid Vegetation" will be published through Cyberwizard Productions. Once we finalize the acceptances, you should receive a contract for your story. We are not offering payment for this anthology, but you will have the option of buying as many discounted copies as you want while the anthology is in print.

Thanks once again to all the talented authors out there. Good luck in your writing!

Acceptances and other good news

Hi. If you've submitted a story to us, you should have heard back. If you haven't, please drop me an email at wanderingweeds@gmail.com.

We're getting the anthology into shape. We've had lots of great stories submitted. Sending out rejections has been the hardest part of editing this. I'm a writer, too, and I know how bad those rejections can sting.

The anthology is almost full. If you know someone who was thinking of writing a story, tell them to hurry and get it submitted. Once we hit our word count of acceptances, we're closing the slush pile.

Thanks for your participation in this. It's been an eye-opening experience for me as a first-time editor.

First round of acceptances will go out Monday

Hi, everyone.

Sorry for such a long wait. Life happened.

We will be contacting everyone next week, so if you submitted and don't get something from us by Friday, please drop me an email. Include the name of your story so I can double check that we have it in our pile. This editing thing is more complicated than I thought, so it's taking longer than we expected.

The anthology is about 2/3 full, so if you know anyone with a story about evil weeds, have them send it in. It doesn't have to be set in the American West or have tumbleweeds, just some kind of evil plant life as the villain.

We're waiting for more good stories to read!

Deadline Extended!

Due to a lack of evil weeds, must be the weather, we're extending the deadline. The anthology will be open until filled. We'll post a real date when we get close to closing.

So if you've decided not to write that story because the deadline was too close, think again. Think of how much fun you could have writing about weeds devouring an entire town, or weeds from space conquering our planet or some other planet, or zombie weeds that will not die. Wait, those are growing in my front yard...

We're eagerly waiting for your submissions! Email your stories about weeds to wanderingweeds@gmail.com

Full guidelines are here: http://wanderingweeds.blogspot.com/2010/09/calling-all-authors-anthology.html

We're not through Weeding...

We're still looking for stories of Wicked Weeds of all varieties. The deadline is Dec. 31, but if you have a great story not quite finished, just let us know. We can be as flexible as those evil balls of thorny dehydrated vegetation.

For those wondering about payment, we are with a real publisher, Cyberwizard Productions, a small press. There is no payment for the story, but you can buy as many discounted copies as you like to resell. You do get all the bragging rights you want.

And if things work out, you may get some awesome bookmarks and possibly righteous weed seeds, meaning some useful and different garden seeds to try. It depends on how many stories my co-editor and I get to read. We're excited about this subject and thrilled to put this anthology together.

How many anthologies about evil tumbleweeds exist out there?

Status Update

We're rolling in some really vicious, evil weeds here at the editing offices. Good thing it's virtual and so are the tumbleweeds! I'm stocking up on weed killer all the same.

Keep sending them, please. We still have plenty more room for more weeds, just make sure they're bad.

We're in the process of contacting those who have submitted already, so if you haven't heard from us yet, it's coming.