{"id":3426,"date":"2009-04-30T20:49:34","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T00:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3426"},"modified":"2009-04-30T20:49:34","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T00:49:34","slug":"sorry-were-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3426","title":{"rendered":"Sorry, we’re closed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier today, I did something I’ve been putting off for awhile: I closed Kaleidotrope<\/a> to submissions.<\/p>\n

More importantly, I did the rough calculations that suggested I pretty much had<\/i> to do this. Already, I’d been telling future contributors that I couldn’t guarantee when their work would appear, that I was pretty full-up on acceptances at the moment, and that it could be as late as late 2010 before their submissions saw print. That’s a long time to wait if you’re a writer, and it didn’t seem fair to expect it of anyone.<\/p>\n

So, starting tomorrow, the zine is temporarily closed. I still have several submissions awaiting replies in my in-box, but after that I won’t be accepting submissions for several months, or longer. I’ll instead be busying myself with putting together the next two or three issues with what I’ve already accepted. I regret all the great writing I’ll need to pass up in the interim, but I think this will be good for both the zine and my sanity. (I won’t mind an in-box that doesn’t need near-constant pruning, for instance.)<\/p>\n

And who knows? When I open back up, I think I’d like to start offering my contributors just a little more money…<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earlier today, I did something I’ve been putting off for awhile: I closed Kaleidotrope to submissions. More importantly, I did the rough calculations that suggested I pretty much had to do this. Already, I’d been telling future contributors that I couldn’t guarantee when their work would appear, that I was pretty full-up on acceptances at … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-3426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-kaleidotrope"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}