Contact
One address, read by a person.
contact@talehour.com
Corrections and continuity
This is the most useful mail we get. If a story contradicts itself, or a name, date, age or place is wrong, send the story's title and the sentence you noticed. You do not need to explain what the right answer is — pointing at the problem is enough.
Published stories are corrected in place, by hand. How that fits into the wider process is on the editorial process page.
Reporting something worse than an error
If a story contains something that should not be there — content that is genuinely offensive, or material that appears to be lifted from somewhere else — say so directly and it will be looked at ahead of anything else in the inbox.
Rights and permissions
Ask before republishing. Quoting a paragraph with a link back needs no permission and is welcome. Republishing whole stories, mirroring the site, or using its contents to train a model is not permitted — see the terms.
Your account
You can change your details, take down a comment, or delete your account yourself, and deletion is immediate. Write to us only if you cannot get into the account, or would rather a person did it.
Advertising
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What we cannot help with
We do not take story submissions, and we do not give notes on other people's manuscripts. We cannot take requests for what happens next in a story — each one is planned to its ending before a word of it is written, and published whole.
Response time
Mail is read by a person, not a queue, so it is not instant. Corrections are acted on fastest because they are the easiest to verify.