Diary of a Mad Editor

It occurred to me, looking at the calendar this morning, that the current issues of Gnome and The 13th Warrior Review are now officially three months overdue. People have been emailing me, asking, "what gives?" and I’m running out of excuses. Truthfully, aside from writing this blog occasionally, I’ve mostly been at the gym. I’m obese, hypertensive, with hypothyroid, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and two and a half years in remission from cancer. So my health has been my main priority as I’ve said on many occasions. That means I spend a lot of the time at the gym. I’m staying away from the ephedra diet pills, thank you very much. But I am rocking the weights and aerobics and, according to the scale at my oncologist appointment yesterday, I’ve lost sixteen pounds since Christmas. So, I’m on my way to slimming down if not quite on my way to publishing those two issues. I do, however, expect at least one of them to be online sometime before the end of the month. Maybe a hard push over the weekend will do the trick. Anyway, before launching anymore submissions my way, keep in mind that I spend two hours in the gym every day and only spend about two hours a week reading submissions.