Literary Brushstrokes recently suffered some setbacks. Other editors
moved on to other things, as they should, since this is a non-paying operation
with no income. Our original web hosting
service tried to take us to the cleaners, but gave just enough warning before
we had to pay or be shut down, so that we could copy a lot of our original
content – something we are still trying to recover from and bring our website
back up in full with past issues, etc. This whole endeavor has come down to one
editor and one trusted reader.
Unfortunately, many of you have made submissions that still need to be read
and responded to, and those who received acceptances and agreements have not
been able to enjoy seeing their work in print. For that I heartily apologize.
We thought we needed to recover completely before publishing our next
issue, but see that is not the case at all. We need to be responsive and
respectful to those who submit work.
Publishing is all about deadlines. We have set a new deadline to have
an issue in print by mid-September, if not sooner.
Those who received acceptances, please notify us if your work is still
available and you would like to see it published. Also notify us if you have published
elsewhere. To those who have submitted your work and haven’t received a
response yet, please send a withdrawal notice if you moved on elsewhere, or
send us email that you are still interested.
Again, our sincere apologies.
