Fiction Editor Shawna McCarthy has made her most recent round of purchases for Realms of Fantasy. Stories making her cut include:
“The Progress of Solstice and Chance” by Richard Bowes
“The Man Who Made No Mistakes” by Scott William Carter
“Barbie Marries the Jolly Fat Baker” by Nick DiChario
“Sweeping the Hearthstone” by Betsy James
“Seeking Captain Random” by Vylar Kaftan
“Isabella’s Garden” by Naomi Kritzer
“Side Effects” by Susan J. Kroupa
“Return to Paraiso” by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz
“Second Childhood” by Jerry Oltion
“Collateral Damage” by Kate Reidel
“Wet Work: A Tale of the Unseen” by Matthew S. Rotundo
“Leap of Faith” by Alan Smale
Editor Douglas Cohen tells us that Bowes, DiChario, Loenen-Ruiz, and Rotundo are all making their first sales to the magazine. He also writes “As you might notice, this is a pretty big buying run. The reason for this is that Shawna had a pretty backlog to work through that built up during the Tir Na Nog Press era due to a buying freeze. But with this buying run, the fiction department is a lot closer to caught up. Anything that Shawna had under consideration that was submitted before 9/26/10 should have received a response by now.” He then goes into some detail on the fact that they may still have submissions six months old in this post.