“This week’s Nuts & Bolts interviewee is John Joseph Adams. The assistant editor for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and a longtime book reviewer, he has recently turned his hand to editing anthologies. I interviewed him about Seeds of Change (Prime, August 2008).”
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“Which leads us to editing difficulties–of which, I can thankfully say, there were relatively few. Which was fortunate, especially since this was my first attempt to put together an original anthology. One problem was that a lot of writers who I was counting on didn’t deliver stories, so I ended up with a smaller pool of stories to select from than I’d been hoping for. (Not that I bear any ill will to those who didn’t send me stories; it’s all part of the process, and you have to plan accordingly for it.) Additionally, I couldn’t hold an open reading period for the anthology (i.e., accept unsolicited submissions); this is because my day job is working as the assistant editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and the publisher and editor, Gordon Van Gelder (my boss), felt like it would be a conflict if I accepted unsolicited submissions in this particular case since the theme of the anthology is so broad. Which is fair enough, though it did make editing the book a bit more difficult.”
4 out of 5
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