Identity Theory fiction
New fiction on Identity Theory: “Without Biting the Fruit of Knowledge” by Jennifer Trudeau.
I’ve been really proud of the stories that have gone up on IdT in my time there, and there’s another excellent one we just accepted. It’s a fun job. Odd thing though: while the number of top-notch (clearly publishable at just a glance) submissions has remained steady, the number of really good submissions has increased and the number of really awful submissions has decreased. It’s making my and Ali’s and Drew’s jobs a lot harder. It used to be that fully a quarter of all submissions could be dismissed out of hand—they’d be 20,000 words long, have major spelling errors in the first line, be about cancer. That number has dropped to about fifteen percent. The ones we turn down instead are like the majority of our submissions—they’re really pretty good: great settings but flat characters; unique plots but based too much on coincidence; too workshopped.
UPDATE: Some kudos for “Without Biting the Fruit of Knowledge” from Dan Wickett at Emerging Writers Network.
