We are briefly closed to submissions. 

As always, thank you for your support and encouragement. 

Mike & Ryan 

Some time ago, Ryan and I made the decision that we would rather publish late and have a good full book than to rush some questionable content through just to meet a deadline.  For those of you who have been waiting, we are moving right along and hope to have MZSFR out soon.  We only have a handfull of stories left to read, so if you have been waiting to send something in, now is the time.  I would like to thank you for your continued support and I hope to be hearing from you soon.

 Mike Poole, Publisher

We are now up to date on submissions.  The few stories we do have are about a week old and will be finished off on Tuesday.  Vol. 2 issue 1 is well underway and if you have any good tales to submit -- please send on.

Ryan and I have been getting some really good stories.  And I'm sorry to say, we have rejected some really good stories because they do not meet the pg-13 rateing set forth in the guidlines.  After much discussion, we have decided to put togather an anthology with a more liberal policy toward language, sex, and violence.  This will include all those jucy tales that were banned from Mount Zion Speculative Fiction Review due to content.  We will NOT take any erotica.  However, we would love to publish some good stories.  Look for us soon to be posting another submission inbox for the anthology.  It is still in the early stages of planning, so bear with us on the release date, we have yet to set it.  More information is forthcoming.

All our orders are up to date.  If you have not recieved your order by first of next week, please send me an email (mpooleATmountzionpressDOTcom).  We have also revised the way we do our shipping to increase the speed in which you will recive MZSFR

Of course, for most of our readers and contributors, this is moot.  I will try to get a video to post on the blog as well. 

Reading for 2.1 is going well.  Were within our 6 week deadline and hope to get most of the rest read tonight.

I have added the Cover and Table of contents for 1.3.  There's a link on the home page and here's one for the Blog:

Cover and TOC 1.3 

Anyway.  With our first issue we posted a cover(it's still on the home page) and the table of contents (toc) on the web site as a way to sate our rabid fans.  We haven't done that since.  Shame on Mount Zion.  I will make sure MZSFR 1.3 cover and toc are on the web site by next week.  I will also post future issues as well.  

No get out there to those fora and email lists and tell folks how great MZSFR (remember its a Journal) is.  C'mon 154 pages for 5 bucks.  You can't beat that with a shuggoth!

We are now reading for 2.1 in earnest and have already accepted several good stories.  Although we are running about two weeks behind on our submissions, I expect to be well within our six week turn-around by Tuesday.  If all goes well our submission box will be empty the following week. 

Finally, I spoke to a few retailers this week and hope that Mount Zion will soon be for sale some place other than our website.  Although these will be local to the Norris and Knoxville areas, it's a start.  I will update the Crier as to where it will be when an agreement is reached. 

If you have any specific questions shoot me an email  mpoole_AT_mountzionpress.com

Tonight we put the finishing touches on the first printing of MZSFR 1.3.  It will be in the hands of the USPS by week's end.

More Blogging!

Going foward we are going to use The Cryer more regularly.  We plan to keep regular readers updated on the happenings at Mount Zion Headquarters (really just a lone cabin in the dark woods of East Tennessee) as well as more information about the shared setting of Mount Zion.

MZSFR 2.1 is under way.

We have begun reading submissions for our next issue.  Jim Edwards (a familiar name from MZSFR 1.2) and Douglas Lind (from MZSFR 1.3) have each supplied great stories to kick the next issue off.

We have started getting caught up on submissions.  If you sent us a story, be patient we are getting to it. 

Secondly, we are going to try to update The Cryer much more frequently.

Finally, we have begun printing and hope to be sending out copies next week.   

Thanks for your continued interest.  Each issue we do provided us with ways to improve and this issue was no exception.

Here's a story of Appalchian horror from Athena Workman.  Brought to you by Apex Digest.

November has been a busy month for us.  I think I've mentioned that we bind these babies by hand.  The only thing we have to send out is cutting the pages.  And the cut-guy took off about twice as much as we requested.  So we've been straightening that out.
 
More importantly, Vol. 1, No. 3 is almost finished.  We had hoped for a November release, but early December is fine.  If we had the submission volume (assuming the same quality ratio) we could definitely go quarterly. 

We should be sending out contributor and subscription copies pretty soon.  I am really happy with this issue and I think you will be too.

Editorially yours,
Ryan

Click HERE to purchase your copy. 

So where are we now?

MZSFR Vol. 1 No. 2 is being hand bound just like the first issue. Contributor copies are printed, cut, and bound.  We will be putting on covers tomorrow and mailing them Wednesday.  Subscriber copies will follow immediately.

Frankly if we could continue doing it by hand we would.  I enjoy turning a box of cut pages and covers into bound books.  Alas, it's just not efficient.