The Future of Quantum Muse
by Michael Gallant

Today, Quantum Muse stands at a crossroads. Not, surprisingly, that we may sell our souls to the Devil at midnight.

No we stand here today and wonder what the zine will look like in months to come.

Raymond M Coulombe, a founder and original editor, has bowed out of the zine. This means he's roughly 6 years slower on the uptake than Tim Goyette, but still smarter than I.

I am determined to keep the site going, but I'm not exactly sure how that's going to happen. I want to thank everyone who offered help. I will very likely take some of you up on it, once I look around and see where it's most needed.

The biggest immediate change is that I will be putting QM out as a bimonthly publication for a while at least, to get my bearings on how to budget the time for the reading, acceptances, formatting, etc, and to see how anyone whose help I accept works out. Typical of creative people, I am bad at organization and deadlines, but a fussy, pain- in- the- ass perfectionist who's difficult to work with, so it's more likely to be me who is the problem than those of you who offered help.

The more subtle change is unfortunate but inevitable. Being the sole editor will change the flavor of the zine, regardless of how much I try not to. When Ray and I were doing it, we had a balance, we were able to look at things from two perspectives and judge depth better than any one person can. He often championed stories I wouldn't have accepted, and often these were big hits with our readers. I sometimes latched onto a piece and just annoyed him until he agreed to let me publish it, and sometimes I was right about those.

Now that it's all me, well, I like to think I'm open to new experiences enough to keep a variety of fiction here.

But it's hard to know that about your own judgement.

There it is. I don't know how qualified I am to keep this thing moving, but so long as you keep reading, I'll try not to pile us up on the rocks.

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