In July 2013, I served as the “editor-in-residence” for the Codex Writing Group, which meant basically I was asking a month-long AMA (“Ask Me Anything”) interview. With Codex’s permission, I’m re-posting the Q&As here on my blog. The questions were all provided by members of Codex.

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What magazines (other than Lightspeed and F&SF) do you like to read, and how do you tend to do it, i.e. e-reader, on their website, their print form, etc.?

The magazine I read most often cover-to-cover is probably MacLife. I just recently got a new PC running Windows 8, but for the past four years I was a Mac user, and I also have an iPhone and an iPad (Mini). I expect I’ll still find much interest in MacLife, as it’s as much an iOS magazine as it is an OSX one. I read that in hardcopy, because, well, because I keep it in the bathroom. (I don’t like to bring my phone or iPad in there, at least not after an unfortunate incident in which my phone was knocked off the sink as I washed my hands an plunged into the toilet.)

Otherwise, I try to keep up with the other short fiction magazines as much as I can. Those I almost always read on my iPad these days (in the Kindle app). I almost never read fiction on my computer; I’ll almost always get it onto my iPad somehow to read it. (That doesn’t count editing, of course, which IS done on the computer.)

I used to read DECIBEL every month, but I found I was usually better off just doing my own research into metal to find stuff I liked, since half the time when I read the reviews I had no idea what kind of album it would be or even what sub-genre of metal it is.

Is the world ending?

I hope not–that’s where I keep all my stuff!

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