Our whopping 25-page preview of Hell Girl, which is due in stores next Tuesday, just went up on MySpace Comics. Anticipation for this book has been high. It’s a lot of fun and it’s got a great cover, so head on over and check it out.

One of the posters who read the HG preview asked about submitting work to Del Rey. Tricia covered this subject just a few days ago in better ways than I ever will, but I did want to add a couple of things. First, we really enjoy seeing new proposals. Tricia and I are always surprised by how few of them we get, despite having mentioned several times at convention panels that people should feel free to submit work to us. I suspect that’s about to change, now that we have official guidelines up on the site. If we get too many and have to revise the policy, we will, but for now, send ‘em on in. That’s how we ended up publishing Kasumi and The Reformed.

But that leads me to my second point: While we will review and respond to every submission we get, the response to work we don’t want to publish won’t be long. I know what it’s like to want to see your work published, and I know what it’s like starting out, looking for your big break. Even if an editor isn’t interested, you want their feedback so you can get better and hopefully, someday, break through. I wish we had the time to help with that, but we don’t, so please don’t be offended by a short response from us if we’re not interested. It’s not personal; there’s just so many hours in the day.

Okay, I looked for those Marvel pocket books (I’ll explain why I hate the word digests someday soon) without success. If they turn up, I’ll put the picture up here.

More on my career in comics later.

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