Huh?

Victor’s is 27,000 words. Don’t know about the others in the line up.

Some readers hate his writing style, others don’t. The opinion of just the quality of his writing has been pretty polarizing for decades.

That’s exactly what we do read. Everything —I can’t speak for the other best of the year editors, but I read hundreds of stories from-I just counted the magazines I read (or skimmed) last year —233 issues of magazines ranging-that’s not counting the webzine issues. That’s not counting the anthologies and the…

Perhaps if you actually checked out the feed you’d notice that there are many specific stories recced by others than those you mention (in fact, I don’t think there is a Kiernan story recced yet (although, I’m sure there will be if she’s published anything new this year-because she’s a fabulous writer).

I didn’t mean to imply you were. It’s on the home pages of both the twitter and facebook feeds. There’s not enough space to put our whole remit in actual tweets, which is where this all is posted first.

Andrew-thank you for the shout out.
SJ: It does say it-clearly, on both facebook and twitter.

I just wanted to make sure that your readers understood that horror wasn’t being covered ;-)

Just fyi “Tin Cans” is a reprint from Nick Mamatas’s and my anthology Haunted Legends, published several years ago. Also, I guess you’re not included dark fantasy or horror Bests of Year. If you were, of course both Paula Guran and I edit one each ;-)