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Hi! > Do you have a vague release date for Penumbra Bestiary? December, I hope. Though this probably requires me to finalize a bunch of production details TOMORROW... > Do you plan any writer calls for the Penumbra line in the near
> future? Yes. I don't know what it will be yet -- Michelle and I will have to sit down and hash over some different ideas floating about and see which we like best, but we've both been swamped with other things (in her case, particularly, editing the Bestiary and starting to review the En Route 2 submissions; and she says she has 4 or 5 more completed manuscripts in hand that she hasn't had time to review yet). Our ideal is to always have a project in "open call" status, as an opening for fresh talent. > Do you have any plans on opening up submissions for book
> proposals? No. At this point, we have more than enough projects already that we want to undertake. > Do you ever contact writers from the open calls to work on
> other projects? Yes, definitely. One of the main purposes of the open calls is to give us a chance to work with more writers, to have first-hand experience with them. As a practical matter, we don't have room in our schedule to keep all the very talented writers we've worked with busy, so even writing the world's best En Route entry (or whatever) doesn't guarantee anyone work on other projects. However, if you haven't worked with us already, it's not likely that we'll invite you to work on a longer, more substantial (and more secret) project. For example, writers who got Michelle's attention by working on books like En Route and the Bestiary (even though the latter isn't published yet) wrote the next book in the vein of "Seven Cities" and "Seven Strongholds." (That's one of those manuscripts in her queue for review, I believe...)
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