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Submission
Sep. 17th, 2008 10:29 pmJust finished preparing _A Bucket Full of Stars_ for submission to _Asimov's_ tomorrow. I can't believe they still want only paper manuscripts. Maybe they think that will reduce the slush pile.
Had to fight tooth and nail to get everything done. There were several odd problems. Two lines kept printing over each other, even though they appeared separately on the screen. Tried two printers; got the same problem. Had to select and pull a trick of setting the Style to Default, even though that's what was showing on the screen already. (Whatever happened to WYSIWYG? Oh, right; they never could get it to actually work.)
None of my printers is wide enough to address a manila envelope of the correct size except for my expensive, wide-carriage photo-quality Epson, so I had to print the address on normal paper and cut and tape. Also, some glitch caused the printer to think the address for the SASE was three pages, no matter how I edited it, so I had to load three envelopes in the proper slot, with the last one out (the first "page") being the one addressed.
Still, it's ready to go. I haven't read an issue of _Asimov's_ in decades, but this is the sort of story they say they want on their submissions guidelines on the Web page.
Had to fight tooth and nail to get everything done. There were several odd problems. Two lines kept printing over each other, even though they appeared separately on the screen. Tried two printers; got the same problem. Had to select and pull a trick of setting the Style to Default, even though that's what was showing on the screen already. (Whatever happened to WYSIWYG? Oh, right; they never could get it to actually work.)
None of my printers is wide enough to address a manila envelope of the correct size except for my expensive, wide-carriage photo-quality Epson, so I had to print the address on normal paper and cut and tape. Also, some glitch caused the printer to think the address for the SASE was three pages, no matter how I edited it, so I had to load three envelopes in the proper slot, with the last one out (the first "page") being the one addressed.
Still, it's ready to go. I haven't read an issue of _Asimov's_ in decades, but this is the sort of story they say they want on their submissions guidelines on the Web page.
