...continued from Part One ... "Mr. Bethke? How do I become a writer?"The Snark is strong with me. You have no idea how hard it is...

And once again, Spring returns to the North Country. In the space of two short weeks we've gone from watching the glaciers calve... To w...

Thirty-five years ago I was living in Los Angeles, shopping my demo tape all over Hollywood, and trying to take my musical career to the nex...

Twelve weeks into our 2019 reading period, things aren’t quite where I wanted them to be, but on the whole, I’m cautiously optimistic. Ne...

Six weeks into our 2019 reading period, we’ve settled down to a pretty consistent average of seven new submissions daily. Of these— • 6...

Three weeks into our 2019 reading period, things seem to be progressing nicely. Submissions slowed for a few days but then returned to th...

Here’s one more thing we’ll be adding to the Submission Guidelines ASAP: Please do not send email with HUGE (multi-megabyte) attachments ...

“You can’t judge a book by its cover.” Everyone says that, but does anyone actually believe it? Yeah, sure, there may be a few edge ca...

With the 2018 reading period all wrapped up , we’re deep in the throes of book production. If you submitted a story to us in 2018 and ha...

“...good luck placing it elsewhere. “Kind regards, “Bruce Bethke “editor, Stupefying Stories ” Hmm, hmm, re-read it one more time to...

Quentin Walker writes: “I am a writer in my free time and an avaricious reader [...]” (Good opening. We like writers, and always nee...

Just a few metrics for you this morning. Of the more than 800 submissions we received during our 2018 reading period—I don’t have a so...

(Using the illo of a P.O.’d cat in a pink bunny suit, just because I haven’t used it in a while and want to see if facebook picks it up....

Op-ed: “How to Write Heroes: An Incomplete Primer” • by Auston Habershaw Previously: “How to Write a Good Bad Guy” Okay, so the first...

With Stupefying Stories #21 now out on Kindle, we’re moving ahead with back-office work. We have six more Stupefying Stories books—magazin...

Op-ed: “How to Write a Good Bad Guy” • by Auston Habershaw The villain is a key role in any adventure story. It’s really, really hard...

Op-ed: “The Whole Alternate History Thing” • by Bruce Bethke The temptation when writing alternate history is to assume that your one ...

Status Update: Some Lessons from the Slush Pile In the slightly more than three months since we reopened to unsolicited submissions, we...

"The Talk" (Part Three) by Bruce Bethke Previously, in "The Slush Pile Survival Guide:" Part One | Part Two .  A...