I spent an extraordinary couple of hours with Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen, the great Sámi singer and activist. This is her story (of combating racism, preserving language, belting out electro-pop floorfillers, and being regularly hauled off by the police): www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/int...
Given all of the recent genAI discussion, I wish to repost this.
For some reason the Submission Grinder has been showing that we're closed but WE ARE OPEN FOR SUBS!!!
Tell your family, tell your friends, tell anyone into weird monsterfuckery! 🦑
#submissioncall #opensubs #litmag #erotica #publishing
You wanna see what it looks like when author incomes collapse? Make their books unavailable for libraries to purchase. Go ahead, Author's Guild. See how far that gets your members.
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Xenocultivars is one of my favorite ever anthologies!
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If your publisher uses AI art, they're bad at their job. Full stop.
When a publisher claims they can't afford to invest in your cover art, what they're really saying is that they can't sell your book. /THREAD O'CLOCK
Several people have asked me recently why Analog/Asimov's/F&SF/Ellery Queen/Alfred Hitchcock still don't have Submission Grinder listings again, because the communications from SFWA on the subject have been so positive.
So I thought it might be worth addressing this briefly.
It is very depressing how many SFF presses, imprints, and magazines have closed over the last 5 years. It is equally depressing how few new success stories there are, and how there aren’t any financial boosts for everything that remains.