New depths of failure to observe the manuscript formatting guidelines.

You'd think that people who want to write would also know how to read.

You guys are making me nervous.

Well, here’s two thoughts that might or might not cheer you:

1. The formatting guidelines are pretty simple. It should be pretty easy to figure out whether your manuscript was properly formatted: If it looks anything at all like Vonda McIntyre’s manuscript preparation handout (also posted on the All-Star Stories site) — then you’ve got nothing to worry about.
2. If, as it happens, you realize that you didn’t format your manuscript according to the guidelines — well, plenty of other people didn’t either. I’m too new in this business to throw out any manuscript without reading it, and fundamentally it’s going to be the story that sells, not the typography. So it’s still probably not worth worrying about.

Just let your fear be a lesson to you — next market you submit to, be sure to read the guidelines carefully :)

David, saw the Zep antho listing in SF Chronicle's market report a couple days ago. Not sure how big an audience they'd reach, but just so you know.

Excellent. Wonder if we’ll get any screenplays? :)

Never mind — I was thinking of . . . what media-centric SF magazine was I thinking of?

Cinefantastique? Fangoria? Sci-Fi Universe? SF Media? SF Vortex? Starlog?

That's all Ulrich's suggesting, anyway.

Since I suffer from incompetence and inflated self-assessments, I was never concerned that my story was formatted incorrectly. ;-)

-- david j

Well, then you’ve only got the usual stuff to worry about. :)