Welcome Edmund R. Schubert, editor of InterGalactic Medicine Show, an online, quarterly illustrated magazine that publishes a wide range of science fiction and fantasy.
Tell us a bit about yourself and your publication.
The first issue was published in October of 2005, and the first two issues were edited by Orson Scott Card, who founded the magazine [...]

I read previous posts as I tried to figure out what to write about, and was entertained and educated, sometimes simultaneously, which you’d think could cause injury if done without warming up first. I’m not sure, however, that I will be able to follow in the same vein, because my mind is on other things. [...]

Finally, we get to hear from our first industry guest! Please welcome Liz Scheier, senior editor for Ballantine, which is part of the Random House Publishing Group.

Tell us a little about you and your publishing house.
- I acquire mainly for the Del Rey list, which is our science fiction/fantasy imprint, but also acquire for the [...]

Barry B. Longyear, the esteemed author of Enemy Mine, The God Box, and many other marvelous works, says that an important reason why we write is to identify other members of our tribe:  those individuals who recognize something primal in our work, something that sings to their spirits as to no others, and calls them [...]