Editor Interview: Twit Publishing

Indie genre fiction

H.P. Lovecraft, H.G. Wells, Jorge Luis Borges, Ray Bradbury, James Joyce,

We only publish high-quality fiction. I love a great story, and I have to read these stories multiple times, so they had better be good!

Edit, edit, edit!

Well-written prose with a compelling and engrossing story.

We only take writers from the United States. Unfortunately, I get a lot of international submissions that are really great, but I have to turn them down.

I like to know who is writing the stories, but it is not necessary for publication. Previous publication credits do not matter, either.

I can generally tell within the first few paragraphs if a story is right for us, but I will usually finish the story anyways. If the story is poorly written, then I just scan the rest of it.

We do like to have a balanced number of works from each genre, but I have not run into too many problems where that is concerned. Basically, if I like the story and I think it fits, it goes into whatever project we are publishing.

Whenever a new submission comes in, I read the story, decide on which folder to place it (best, maybe, or reject). If I really like the story, and I know I'm going to definitely use it, I print it up and begin editing it with my red pen. When that is done, I enter in track changes, and send it to the writer for review. Of course, I do wait to send it to the author until the call for submission is over. Generally, by the last few weeks before a deadline for submission, I have an idea of which stories are going to be included, but I keep an open-mind until the very end.