Sherwood Smith has agreed to guest-edit a special themed issue of Coyote Wild, designed around YA (young adult) Heroic Fantasy. We’re planning to solicit some stories by invitation, but we’ll certainly consider unsolicited submissions for the issue, as well—if you’ve got something you’d like us to consider, just submit through the regular channels (found under the link to Guidelines, in the sidebar) and please include YA Edition in the subject line of the email.

I’ll keep you updated with the details, as we hammer them out. In the meantime, three cheers for Sherwood!

Here’s a link to her website, and another link to her bibliography just in case you’ve not read them all, yet.

In the meantime, perhaps we can coax her to talk a bit about what she thinks about heroic fantasy, young adult lit, and what she expects from that kind of a story.