Synopses and panic

I rechecked some of the guidelines for Black Library’s manuscript submission period, boy am I glad I did. They altered the requirements for manuscripts and my thought process ran as follows.

’No more novels’. Meh.

‘Short stories now sample text only’. Hmmm.

‘Short stories no longer require synopses’. Ahhhh, nice.

‘Submissions period now 1^st April – 31^st July’. HOLY BALL-ACHING SHITFIRE!