Editor's Notes Part Two

Resist. You must resist assimilation.

You really should.

A relatively new phenomenon is to stoke up writers on social media with the lure of a place in an anthology. For editors this is a marvelous thing because floods of stories will naturally pore in.

But be wary. Be careful WHO is dangling the shiny baubles.

I recall a recent pitch, a couple of years ago, where scribes were pumped up with invitations; daily messages of the grand scope of the project; lucrative contract terms and visibility from space. Facebook was all a twitter and twitter was foaming at the beak; new writers, writers who barely dipped a toe in the ink of published works posted feverishly about their brushes with greatness only in the end to be dashed by cronyism.

I am not smart. I warned people as I warn today. Choose wisely who are willing to entrust with your work.