"Salt of Judas"

[Eric James Stone]

My latest story to be published, "Salt of Judas," is now available at Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show. Click here to read the beginning for free.  You can purchase the issue for only $2.50.

I wrote the first draft of this story in 24 hours at the 2004 Writers of the Future workshop.  As the seed for the story, Tim Powers gave me a packet of sugar and told me to pretend it was salt.

[Skar]

Good story.    I just finished reading it over my lunch.  Worth the 2.50 all by itself.

[Eric James Stone]

I'm glad you liked it.

[Skar]

Question: All I can find in the way of submission guidelines for IGMS is

If you wish to submit a story, please respond to this email and include your story as an attached MS Word or WordPerfect or RTF file.

Please include your name, street address, phone number and e-mail address.

Anything beyond that I should know about submitting?  Like format, layout or font size?

[Eric James Stone]

Format your story using standard manuscript format, as if you were going to print it out.  Then email the file.

[Skar]

Thanks.  Am I correct then in assuming that they print it out for the slush pile?

[Eric James Stone]

Well, I don't know about that.  I'm just going off of: (1) That's how my manuscripts were formatted when I sent them to IGMS, and (2) Always use standard manuscript format unless specified otherwise.  (For example, Strange Horizons has very specific rules on how to format a manuscript to submit to them electronically via text-based email.)

[Tink]

Geez. It seems like it would be easier to just copy the story into Notepad and then add the characters to indicate ital. Wouldn't you think? Doesn't Notepad automatically strip formatting and curly quotes, so you wouldn't have to go through the trouble of removing them yourself?

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

some curly quotes are kept, actually. It's best to do a find and replace.