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Greetings, Tasty Morsels!
You'll be pleased to know that submissions for 2023 have closed. The game is set, and your fate rests with the harpies (Editors, Grendel. We're called editors) now.
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If you submitted to Paramnesia or The Devil Who Loves Me, you can expect to see acceptance letters by the 10th with denials shortly after.
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If you submitted to More than a Monster or our Supernatural theme (tentatively titled Uncanny & Unearthly Tales), please be aware that it's taking longer to wade through all the stardust. Expect another month to receive your letters.
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Our audacious dearest, Editor in Chief, has requested that I introduce you to the harpies.
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Susan Russell, Chief Harpy
Yeelloo! I'm Susan, and Grendel Press LLC is my brainchild. I started editing in early 2020 with an international crew of writers working on a gaming website.
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So what does that have to do with editing? Everything. I realized that I loved the energy of editing for so many authors, even on a small scale. I enjoy looking at the beautiful bones and knowing... I can fix that.
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So in early 2021, I sat down and looked at the facts. Self-publishing was on the rise and I was reading more and more books that desperately needed an editor. I started small and offered my services until I built a client base of authors that have become some of my biggest fans.
Now I want to take the next step.
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Rachael Swanson, Harpy
Hello! My name's Rachael, and I've been an editor for a little over a year now. I've always been a big reader, but it wasn't until July of 2021, after I'd been beta reading for a while, that I realized how much I loved helping authors with their books.
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Getting to be part of the process was exciting, and I'd very quickly decided that I wanted to make that my career. So I found some classes online, signed up, and have been working as an editor ever since.
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On top of being a freelance editor, I work part-time at an editing company and spend the rest of my time with my husband, kids, and two cats, Pippin and Arwen. When I have free time, I love to read, play video games, go on hikes, and play D&D.
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A few additional things about me: my favorite genres to read are fantasy, horror, and romance, my favorite video game is Red Dead Redemption 2 (I could talk about that game forever), and my favorite kind of food is Mexican.
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Kasey Kubica, Harpy
Hiya! My name is Kasey, and I’ve been in the editing world for nearly two years, though it was a lifetime ago that I decided I wanted to be an editor; it just took me fifteen years to get here.
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I work in all genres, including children’s literature, science fiction, horror, and romance, and I hope to end up editing in the culinary world at some point in my career.
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I’m also an author, having opted for self-publishing a short stack of novels over the last thirteen years. A nonfiction travelogue (Swine and Cheese) was my first foray into putting my words out into the public, followed by a short-story entry in Spellbinding: An Anthology of Magic, three erotic romances (Proof, Ignite, and Abroad), and a light-and-fluffy holiday novella, Binge, released on Christmas Day 2021. In the works are a supernatural thriller and a food history cookbook.
When I’ve not got my nose in some sort of story, I hunker down with my other hobbies: embroidery, gaming, hiking, traveling, cooking, baking, and spending time with my partner, Daren, and our deaf, senior corgi-golden retriever, Apollo.
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And that's all, darlings.
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You'll next hear from me in February to introduce our first set of authors... if I haven't eaten them yet.
Yours,
Grendel
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