You might notice some changes happening in my bio below my posts, on my About Me page, and on my social media sites. I’ve already mentioned it on Facebook, but I thought I’d better note it here, as well. For the last three years, I’ve been editorial director of Tu Books, focusing on the editorial side. Now my responsibilities have expanded to include marketing and sales, and so my title has changed to publisher to reflect that change in duties.
What this means for writers: I won’t have as much time to accept new submissions, so from time to time our submissions guidelines will reflect that we’ve closed to unagented submissions. We did this over the holidays, and haven’t yet reopened those submissions; I need time to catch up on what we’ve already received, including a nice large number of New Visions Award submissions. So keep writing, and watch for when we open for submissions periodically. This will allow me to concentrate my editorial time on the books we’ve already contracted, with concentrated windows during which I’ll seek new voices.
While this is a big change for me, for the purpose of writers things shouldn’t change too much.
Triple duty. My hat’s off to you. BTW, I was pleasantly surprise to discover an ARC of Diverse Energies on my bookshelf today. Apparently I picked it up at the ALA convention and didn’t even realize it! Yea for me! So once I’m done with Summer of the Mariposas, I’ll settle down to DE.