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mscelina · Dec 29, 2011

Oh--duh!

Themes for Penumbra are now posted through August, 2012 on our website at www.penumbra.musapublishing.com. While Shakespeare (February's issue) is very specific, some of the others--animals, politics, and dreams--are pretty broad. I am not getting as much sci fi and horror at Penumbra as I would like. If you have any questions about Penumbra or submissions, you can email me at editor (at) musapublishing (dot) com.

michael_b · Dec 30, 2011

Unfortunately several of those calls have already reached their expiration or are too close to the dates they are due for anyone to get stories in at this point in time.

Filigree · Dec 30, 2011

You never know, if you have a backlog of stories. That's why it pays to keep track of submissions calls.

mscelina · Dec 30, 2011

Well, we're getting between 25-40 submissions a day, which is down a little bit through the holiday season as expected. Once our staff returns from their holiday--and all the writers get back to submitting--I'm sure that Penumbra will be cranking right back up to the pre-holiday levels. Then, too, the issues that are about to expire have been on our homepage since September. So anyone who wanted to write a story specifically for our call has had more than enough time to do so.

CC.Allen · Jan 3, 2012

My curiosity has gotten the best of me. I am wondering if any of the musa-ites are around...

I submitted a query yesterday afternoon (1/2/ 3:00 pacific time) while the message regard not accepting submissions through 1/1 was still posted. I noticed the blog message updated this morning. Now I am curious as to whether query e-mails were still being rejected until this message was updated. I am patient and have no problem waiting, but wasn't sure whether or not I may need to re-sub? If anyone has any advice as to the timetable of your system auto-rejecting subs, it would be appreciated. Thanks.

P.S. I realized this morning that I did not receive an auto-responder either way, that is what led me to thinking...

Filigree · Jan 3, 2012

I have to hold off submissions a week or two, anyway. By that time, I figure they'll have changed the messages.

mscelina · Jan 3, 2012

CC.Allen said:
My curiosity has gotten the best of me. I am wondering if any of the musa-ites are around...

I submitted a query yesterday afternoon (1/2/ 3:00 pacific time) while the message regard not accepting submissions through 1/1 was still posted. I noticed the blog message updated this morning. Now I am curious as to whether query e-mails were still being rejected until this message was updated. I am patient and have no problem waiting, but wasn't sure whether or not I may need to re-sub? If anyone has any advice as to the timetable of your system auto-rejecting subs, it would be appreciated. Thanks.

P.S. I realized this morning that I did not receive an auto-responder either way, that is what led me to thinking...

The vacation messages were taken down yesterday from the email accounts. If you haven't heard from my submissions assistant, Kaitlin Bevis, I recommend that you re-send the original query.

CC.Allen · Jan 3, 2012

Thank you, Celina. I will resubmit and wait to hopefully hear from Kaitlin.

sheadakota · Jan 3, 2012

I wish I knew how to post a pic in my message but I managed to post it in my siggy- Look below and see the wonderful new cover for my MUSA release in Feb!!!

frolzagain · Jan 3, 2012

Wow Sheadakota, that is a beautiful cover! Congrats!

Erin · Jan 3, 2012

sheadakota said:
I wish I knew how to post a pic in my message but I managed to post it in my siggy- Look below and see the wonderful new cover for my MUSA release in Feb!!!

Love the cover...I clicked on it hoping to see a bigger picture, but it takes me to a Lyrical Press page error.

sheadakota · Jan 3, 2012

Erin said:
Love the cover...I clicked on it hoping to see a bigger picture, but it takes me to a Lyrical Press page error.

Wow - i have no idea how I did that! :tongue

Cyia · Jan 3, 2012

sheadakota said:
I wish I knew how to post a pic in my message but I managed to post it in my siggy- Look below and see the wonderful new cover for my MUSA release in Feb!!!

Save the photo to something like Photobucket, then paste in the code Photobucket provides for message boards.

sheadakota · Jan 4, 2012

Thank you !

SmallThing · Jan 4, 2012

mscelina said:
If you're sending on a short story or pairing, please just embed the story into your query email with a basic, one-paragraph synopsis (no, I don't want any synopses longer than the stories). If I like what I see, we'll discuss the story and the different options available for you at Musa. I'm treating short fiction on a case by case basis.

What about something in the range of 13-14K? Would you still want that embedded in the query/synopsis email, or would you prefer the first twenty pages as a start?

Thanks!

mscelina · Jan 4, 2012

For a story of that length, just attach the story as a rtf or doc file to the email and let the submissions readers know that I said it was okay.

Cassie Knight · Jan 4, 2012

An Interview of Celina/Musa Publishing

Hi all!

I have a terrific interview on Celina/Musa Publishing on my blog, See Jane Publish, at http://seejanepublish.wordpress.com/2012/01/04/industry-interview-musa-publishing-by-kim-wollenburg/

Seriously. She is amazing. You gotta check it out. I learned more great things about her and Musa doing the interview.

Enjoy!

Filigree · Jan 4, 2012

Very good interview!

Mclesh · Jan 4, 2012

Very nice interview, Celina! (And just when do you sleep exactly?)

seun · Jan 4, 2012

Mclesh said:
Very nice interview, Celina! (And just when do you sleep exactly?)

Celina sleeps?

Mclesh · Jan 4, 2012

seun said:
Celina sleeps?

Maybe she plugs herself in for half an hour to recharge every other day?

seun · Jan 4, 2012

You're thinking of my hair clippers.

Mclesh · Jan 4, 2012

Well, then maybe she's like Elf. He only needs a solid 40 minutes a night -- as long as there are enough candy canes within reach.

mscelina · Jan 4, 2012

What are you guys going on about? I sleep between 6 am and 10 am, like any good vampire with a red pen.

And thank you, Cassie! i enjoyed doing the interview.

SmallThing · Jan 4, 2012

mscelina said:
For a story of that length, just attach the story as a rtf or doc file to the email and let the submissions readers know that I said it was okay.

Thanks!

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