Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 20:44:25 -0400
From: Ted White <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: The Return of The Magazine That Will Not Die?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On 9/29/2011 6:48 PM, mark wrote:

>  Ted White wrote:
>
> > On 9/29/2011 12:30 PM, Elspeth Kovar wrote:
> >
> >> Michael Walsh wrote:
> >>
> >>> No ... not Weird Tales .... Amazing Stories
> >>>
> >>> http://file770.com/?p=7100#more-7100
> >>
> >> You forgot the credit to our own Ted White:
> >>
> >> " . . . where it enjoyed a brief and all too short resurgence
> >> under the tutelage of Ted White"
> >>
> >> Which reminds me of a question - Ted, what magazines have you
> >> edited/worked on? I was trying to come up with them the other day
> >> and couldn't.
> >
> > Thanks, Elspeth. Lessee here: F&SF, 1963-68; AMAZING &
> > FANTASTIC, 1968-78; HEAVY METAL, 1979-80; STARDATE, 1984-85. On
> > the latter I was Editorial Director and I hired Dave Bischoff as
> > Editor.
>
>  Wait: F&SF, '63-'68? Was that *you* I met? Around '65, or so, I'd
>  written a short story, and think I sent it, and gotten no response,
>  and so I was in NYC with my folks, and my mom and I came to the
>  office to offer it....

No, that was Ed Ferman.  I only went into the office once a week.  I was
an Assistant, later Associate Editor.  If you submitted a story as an
unknown, it came to me.  I read them all, within two weeks of reception,
an average of 600 a month.  I passed as many as a half dozen a month up
the editorial chain (which was a short one: me on the bottom and either
Avram Davidson or Ed Ferman on the top), of which one would be purchased
and published.  I had one "slush pile" story in every issue for most of
my five years at The Magazine.  I also wrote editorials, book reviews
and blurbs and did a share of the copyediting.

--Ted White