Luna Station Quarterly

There are huge, wonderful, amazing things going on behind the scenes here at LSQ. Unfortunately, whenever you combine huge and wonderful with things like code and files you rarely are able to escape without a few hiccups. We’re experiencing some behind-the-scenes hiccups right now.

I had debated releasing what I had ready, but the issue and the news that goes with it are so big and so awesome, I would rather wait and have everything PERFECT for you all. And that takes a little time. And debugging. Thank Odin I do this code thing for a living or I would be panicking right now. Instead, I’m just tired and wish I had a spare clone hanging around. 

So, if you would all be patient for another day or so (I know, I know. Trust me, I want to get this issue out to you so you can read all of the awesome) I will be trumpeting the news when the everything is live. 

Thank you, dear readers, for your support and patience. I believe it will be worth the little wait. 

Your humble editor, signing off at 2:15 a.m. (See? This is how much I love you guys.)

We’re still open to submissions for our next issue, but only for one more week! Why not consider sending us a story? 

Behind this pixel, and this one right here> there are gears turning. We’ve got wonderful announcements coming and you’ll hear all about them on June 1st! Don’t forget to check in then for new stories and new news.

While all this is going on, we encourage you to check out “I Open My Eyes” by M. Darusha Whem,  our featured story of the week.

Hello everyone!

We are just a month away from Issue 010! There are still two weeks left to get your submissions in and we'd love to see your stories. You can find out more details on our submissions page; the deadline is May 15th. 

Just a little reminder that we are now accepting donations toward our big goal: paying our authors! We hope to have everything in order to become a paying market in 2013, assuming the apocolypse still leaves us with some sort of money and computers.

While enjoying the last days of the end times (remember, it is Zombie Awareness Month), please enjoy our featured story of the week, "Mercy Denied" by Danielle E. Shipley.

We are still open for another month for our next issue. Number 010 is going to be very interesting. There are some surprises that will come along with the publication of this one. Because those preparations are keeping us very busy behind the scenes, this post is going to be very short. In fact, it’s already almost finished.

We know, you’re excited, though not nearly as excited as we are. In fact, we’re so excited that all we have the patience to do is tell you that our featured story of the week is “Loose” by Evan Mariah Pettit. Go read it and enjoy! No, seriously. Go read it now.

Our webhost upgraded our server over the weekend, and thankfully, LSQ is still fighting fit and ship shape. While this was all going on, we’ve taken the opportunity to switch our weekly updates to Tuesdays (ta da!) and also added a little bonus. 

You can now follow us on Tumblr! All our blog posts, along with some extra content, will be posted over there and then posted on Twitter and Facebook. It’s a whole social networking infinity loop or something. We know it made our heads spin just trying to connect it all!

In any case, you can now follow us all over the place. Hopefully this also makes it easier to spread the word about our ongoing mission to bring you awesome new stories by up and coming women speculative fiction writers. (No, that doesn’t read like SEO marketing-speak at all. Nope.) Our raison d’etre is sincere and we do hope you’ll lend support to these awesome women.

What’s that? Have a story of your own you’d like to see published? Why not send it in? We’re still taking submission for our next issue. See the obviously-named submissions page for details. (hint, hint, we’d love to see more fairy tales!)

And last but not least, our featured story of the week is ”Moonbeams and Shadows” by Isabella Hodson. We do hope you’ll go read it and enjoy it before taking a gander at our other offerings. 

Have a great week everyone, and keep writing!