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http://jessicaverday.blogspot.com/2011/03/wicked-pretty-things-running-press-and.html

http://sparkle-project.blogspot.com/2011/03/update-on-wicked-pretty-things.html

If you are an editor of an anthology, then pretty much you say what goes into it. I'm not saying I agree with Telep's misguided decision to ask for a m/m story to be converted to a m/f – but if that's her comfort zone, so be it. Perhaps she didn't (very probably didn't) have any precise guidelines from Constable and Robinson as to what they would accept or not, and if Telep was more comfortable with m/f stories then that's her choice. The lesson here, I think is to make sure the original call for submissions is clear clear clear clear clear. That being said, just because the submission guidelines don't say that they don't accept (for example) incest, it doesn't naturally follow that if you sent them an incest fic they'll accept it. While – OF COURSE – i would like all publishers and anthologies etc etc to be entirely inclusive, I'm hard headed enough to realise that's not going to happen. It's a shock to the system but some people don't want to read glbtqi stories. Just like I don't want to read het ones.

Would anyone call me heterophobic if I only wanted m/m stories in an anthology? When some editors only want gay male writers, or only female writers—that's their choice.

I understand that Telep and the BOTH publishers have said that they will accept the story as is, and the author concerned is refusing to let the story go into the anthology on princple—she doesn't want Telep to benefit financially. That's her choice—but it does seem a little like cutting your nose off to spite your face, particularly as she has won the battle. it would be far far better to get the m/m stories included and have a mixed anthology, surely? Telep has said that she will never again cut a m/m story out of an anthology, and yet authors are pulling out of every anthology she's editing.

Internet witch hunts are not pretty and Telep, Running Press and Constable and Robinson have all posted statements and apologies. This "Omg I will never allow anything I write to be tainted with Telep" vendetta by authors not even part of the pretty wicked things anthology leaves an unpleasant taste in my mouth. Let's move on and start destroying someone else.