H von D, I’m wrapping up Without Really Trying for now… unless I have something to say that’s too controversial for the EDF forums.

Right now, I have two options–I can generate content for this site that gets read by like 20 people these days (maybe), or I can generate content for EDF which is read by 800 people. My options seem clear.

This’ll probably be my “Rant blog”, but I’ve been too busy latetly to be pissed off!

I write mostly genre fiction, but my education is in English Literature in general. We believe that the genre short fiction market is not big enough to support an ambitious project like EDF on its own. For instance, there are only 15K searches for “short story” in Google per day. That’s readers, writers, everyone–worldwide. The idea behind EDF works best with massive exposure, and to get that, we needed to provide something for everyone.

Camille does write herself, but she is a “natural novelist”. People find it easier to write at certain lengths, and for Camille, that’s novel sized works. It is also tougher for her to find the time to write between starting a new family and caring for EDF.

I would love to continue answering your questions, but the comments of this blog aren’t the best medium. Perhaps we could continue this conversation in the forums at EDF? The address is http://www.everydayfiction.com/forums/

Congrats on your stories being published. You seem to be very much into genre fiction, what prompted you to launch a more generic fiction website?

Does Camille not write herself? Or is she just yet to make a sale?

We’re just starting out, so we’re bound not to have a 100% hit ratio. In fact, can any magazine make that claim?

I believe in every story we’ve published, but at first, we worried that we weren’t going to get enough submissions to fill our very aggressive quota, so we accepted stories that we wouldn’t have accepted now. Hopefully, in the next couple of months, you’ll start to be more and more blown away by our selections.

If you’re interested in reading me, I have a story in the pro-paying anthology Sails&Sorcery (http://www.fantasistent.com/books/anthologies/SAILS.php). I have several other stories in various magazines right now, ranging from The Sword Review to Anotherrealm. I’ve also written back-to-back Semi-Finalist stories in the Writers of the Future contest, and been a winner in the Vancouver Courier Short Fiction contest (circulation ~300,000).

Camille, my co-editor, has her honours English degree, and I’m working on mine.

Though this is the first magazine we’ve edited, I’m not sure what you mean by “just a passion”. Seems like a contradiction in terms to me

Read quite a few of the stories, some good, some not so good.

I was just wondering about your background. Have you edited a magazine before or had anything published?

Or is this just a passion for you?

I loved Starship Troopers. Let’s hope we succeed as well as he did!

I suppose that short fiction includes satirical essays, fictional biographies etc.. But for now, we’re concentrating on stories.