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    Apex Magazine: Issue 42
    Apex Magazine: Issue 42
    Apex Magazine: Issue 42
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    Apex Magazine: Issue 42

    By Lynne M. Thomas

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    Apex Magazine is a monthly science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction from many of the top pros of the field. New issues are released on the first Tuesday of every month.

    We are a 2012 Hugo Award nominee for Best Semiprozine!

    Issue 42 features the following content.

    EDITORIAL
    Blood on Vellum: Notes from the Editor-in-Chief
    Lynne M. Thomas

    FICTION
    Splinter
    Shira Lipkin

    Erzulie Dantor
    Tim Susman

    Sprig
    Alex Bledsoe

    The Glutton: A Goxhat Accounting Chant
    Eleanor Arnason

    NONFICTION
    An Interview with Alex Bledsoe
    Maggie Slater

    Behind the Convention Curtain: Programming
    Steven H Silver

    The 21st Century SF/F Professional at Conventions
    Lynne M. Thomas

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherApex Book Company
    Release dateNov 3, 2012
    ISBN9781301827091
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      Apex Magazine - Lynne M. Thomas

      APEX MAGAZINE

      ISSUE 42, NOVEMBER 2012

      EDITED BY LYNNE M. THOMAS

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyrights and Acknowledgments

      Blood on Vellum: Notes from the Editor-in-Chief Copyright © 2012 by Lynne M. Thomas

      The 21st Century SF/F Professional at Conventions Copyright © 2012 by Lynne M. Thomas

      Erzulie Dantor Copyright © 2012 by Tim Susman

      Splinter Copyright © 2012 by Shira Lipkin

      The Glutton: A Goxhat Accounting Chant Copyright © 2001 by Eleanor Arnason (Originally appeared in Tales of the Unanticipated, April 2001)

      Sprig Copyright © 2012 by Alex Bledsoe

      Behind the Convention Curtain: Programming Copyright © 2012 by Steven H Silver

      An Interview with Alex Bledsoe Copyright © 2012 by Maggie Slater

      Publisher—Jason Sizemore

      Editor-in-Chief—Lynne M. Thomas

      Senior Editor—Gill Ainsworth

      Managing Editor—Michael D. Thomas

      Slush Editors—Sigrid Ellis, Deanna Knippling, Kelly Lagor, Eileen Maksym, Michael Matheson, Travis Knight, Olga Zelanova, Maggie Slater, Andy Arnold, Fran Wilde, Jei D. Marcade

      Graphic Designer—Justin Stewart

      ISSN: 2157-1406

      Apex Publications

      PO Box 24323

      Lexington, KY 40524

      Each new issue of Apex Magazine is released on the first Tuesday of the month.

      Cover art copyright Nicoletta Ceccoli. Visit her website at http://www.nicolettaceccoli.com to see more of her amazing artwork.

      Table of Contents

      Editorial

      Blood on Vellum: Notes from the Editor-in-Chief

      Lynne M. Thomas

      Fiction

      Splinter

      Shira Lipkin

      Erzulie Dantor

      Tim Susman

      Sprig

      Alex Bledsoe

      The Glutton: A Goxhat Accounting Chant

      Eleanor Arnason

      Nonfiction

      An Interview with Alex Bledsoe

      Maggie Slater

      Behind the Convention Curtain: Programming

      Steven H Silver

      The 21st Century SF/F Professional at Conventions

      Lynne M. Thomas

      Blood on Vellum: Notes from the Editor-in-Chief

      This issue features two contemporary flash fiction pieces. The first is by Alex Bledsoe, the author of one of my favorite novels from last year, The Hum and the Shiver, and its forthcoming follow up, Wisp of a Thing. Both spin tales of the Tufa, a group of people from the mountains of East Tennessee with a magical affinity for music. Bledsoe’s Sprig brings the Tufa to the Renaissance Faire. Our second flash fiction piece, Splinter by Shira Lipkin, examines the intersection of shattered realities and friendships. Tim Susman’s Erzulie Dantor rounds out this month’s new fiction, with an epic look at the aftermath of a major earthquake. Our classic revisited is Eleanor Arnason’s The Glutton: A GoxHat Accounting Chant, which examines the fall of an alien society looking through a historical lens.

      We’re doing something a little different with the nonfiction this month. In addition to Maggie Slater’s interview with Alex Bledsoe, there are two essays, each exploring a different side of the SF/F convention experience: one from the perspective of a programming chair, by Steven H Silver, and one from the perspective of an SF/F professional (yours truly).

      I’ve noticed a bit of tension within our SF/F community lately, between the fans (particularly those who volunteer to run conventions), and the SF/F professionals who also form an integral part of the convention experience. Steven and I offer glimpses of both perspectives so we can see how the other side lives, in the hopes of making sure that everyone who attends conventions has a wonderful time.

      Our gorgeous cover art is by Nicoletta Ceccoli.

      I hope that you enjoy this issue of Apex Magazine.

      Lynne M. Thomas

      Editor-in-Chief

      Dark Faith: Invocations

      Edited by Maurice Broaddus and Jerry Gordon

      Featuring

      Max Allan Collins, Mike Resnick, Jay Lake, Nisi Shawl, Laird Barron, Tom Piccirilli, Jennifer Pelland, and more!

      Religion, science, magic, love, family—everyone believes in something, and that faith pulls us through the darkness and the light. The second coming of Dark Faith cries from the depths with 26 stories of sacrifice and redemption.

      "…rises to the expectations set by Maurice Broaddus and Jerry Gordon’s first (Dark Faith) anthology, if not surpassing them."

      —Dark Wolf Fantasy Reviews

      ISBN: 978-1-937009-07-6

      Available at ApexBookCompany.com or most major book vendors

      Splinter

      Shira Lipkin

      When I was twenty years old, my best friends and I stepped off the edge of the world.

      Michael died yesterday.

      These two things have everything and nothing to do with each other.

      People aren’t made to do what we did.

      Or maybe they are, and they just aren’t made to come back.

      1. Jay

      Jay was the hippie, floppy surfer-bangs, more pot than speed, more folk than punk, and the first time I met him, he seized my

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