I’m an aspiring Weird Fiction writer myself with polymorphic hands–early mornings & Sundays they bang out weird prose, but by day they switch interface references in favor of Java code…

I’ve been reading my target pubs religiously, with special attention to Weird Tales & the new writers making their first sales there–Bob Bodey’s Body Parts, Renovations, Creature.

I’ve also been researching editorial process, and would appreciate any peek behind the editorial curtain such new writers can provide. Has your experience with Weird Tales and Ann Vandermeer been along the lines Ellen Datlow describes in an interview?

“Very few stories are so perfect that they can’t use the critical eye of an editor. Throughout my career I think I’ve seen maybe three or four that needed absolutely nothing. Many stories come in that I like a great deal but that I feel need work– from just a light line edit to a major rewrite…Anyway, the first go-through questions and tries to address the more major problems in the story (that is, of course, if I like the story enough to invest the time and energy in it in the first place).”

Any light you can shed on editorial process with respect to Ann VanderMeer and company?