Award-winning author and editor Catherine Lundoff had questions for the new helm of Candlemark & Gleam.  The answers to her questions can be found here.  Excerpt:

My own taste is eclectic, flexible and unibrow and I will freely confess a weakness for evolved space opera. I want to see nuanced swashbuckling, works whose universes, societies and inhabitants are unusual and diverse beyond lip service (Anglophone SFF is far more parochial that it likes to think).

Originality of concept and quality of craft will be the paramount selection criteria. I consider the process of sculpting a work a dialogue between author and editor. Having read across genres in four languages, I’m impervious to glitz du jour and what I call “rediscovering black holes”.

On a related note, today we’re giving out half the gift certificates linked to The Other Half of the Sky and the VanderMeer Winter Tape Mix StoryBundle.  We’re also extending the giveaway period for the remaining ones to December 24.  The StoryBundle itself will run till the 31st, and makes an ideal gift for bibliovores.