Does anyone know anything about CANONS (the religious studies journal) because I’m supposed to be published in it but I have not been able to communicate with anyone despite reaching out several times and have repeatedly been ignored

Hi! Thank you so much for replying!

she's already communicated to everyone whether or not their paper will be published, in order to avoid the kind of limbo you're worried about

There is unfortunately still a lot of limbo, because the only information I have is that publication is in May. I have no idea when I’m supposed to be available during that time.

I don’t know when the editing process is actually going to happen / when I’m supposed to be involved so I have no ability to prepare. I have other things in my life that I need to balance and won’t be able to quickly edit this paper on short notice because I take a long time to do things. I worked with your other editor who gave me a quick summary of when the editing process would start, how long it would take, what the schedule/plan was, etc, and it went smoothly . Maybe this is an abnormal problem, but I really need to be able to plan my work load.

The editor-in-chief (my partner) is editing papers pretty much solo; this journal doesn't have a lot of manpower behind it, so it takes a while for rounds of edits to go out.

This is perfectly understandable. I have issue with waiting for her to do what’s obviously an incredible amount of work, all by herself. I just want some super basic info like when does she plan to finish editing? When will we be starting the editing process? What is her/the general plan?

some students try to micro-manage the editing process and get really defensive when their writing is critiqued, which monopolizes the editors' time. Based on your post, it sounds like you maybe want this to be the very first thing on her agenda.

This is literally the farthest thing from what I’ve been doing. I have had no ability to micromanage the editing process /monopolize the editor’s time because I have barely communicated with her to begin with. I haven’t even had the opportunity to be demanding because we have yet to exchange edits and I haven’t received criticism yet. The most demanding thing I’ve done is ask for a timeframe. I totally get how I could come across like that. Those people definitely exist and they suck to work with (although having an issue with criticism when Thats literally an editors job is very odd). I don’t need to be the first thing on her agenda, I just want to know what the agenda is, so that I can make one. Once that happens, will happily fade into the background until the time we’re expected to do things.

Just hang tight and chill out while this one person makes her way through all the papers.

I would genuinely love to. I don’t even want to imagine how stressful it probably is to have to solo edit a journal. That said, it’d be much easier to do this if I was communicated with properly from the beginning. After months of silence, I was told at the last minute (when it was already to late) that my essay needed more work and had to be postponed. I get that plans change, but it’s really just not a great position to be in and I want to avoid a repeat of something similar.

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