The Anachronist's Cookbook, my steampunk story from the iPhone app Steampunk Tales, has been selected for inclusion in Ann and Jeff Vandermeer's Steampunk Reloaded anthology!
*cure kermitflail*
Not only is this an awesome series with great editors, but it means a lot more readers for that story. The ideal existence for the Cookbook is as part of a steampunk anthology, where the tropes it's reacting to are all around it, and it can almost be a real artifact within the world created by the other stories. I'm so excited to be in this one--and kudos to Ann and Jeff for looking in unorthodox places for fiction.
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I don't think this really deserves an entry of its own, but it has been brought to my attention that the Powers That Be at Realms of Fantasy have been posting to Facebook and dismissing not only my entire post about the women-only issue, but all argument about it anywhere because I also mentioned email submissions. (I believe I am the only person to mention email submissions, in the context of other debates RoF might want to respond to editorially.)
I have no idea why mentioning another debate means this one can be ignored, but that seems to be the size of it.
This apparently means I'm just a "sour grapes" girl and can be dismissed. Actually, the phrase sour grapes means that one is denied something one truly wanted, so as a response, one disparages the thing to make oneself feel better. Since I am a woman and eligible for the issue and have never submitted to or been rejected from RoF (though I'm pretty sure I would be now), this phrase is darn near non-sensical when applied to this discussion, which let's be honest, brings the magazine tons of attention and free advertising.
So allow me to say: scratch what I said about email subs. Doesn't matter. Obscures the issue at hand.
*thinks*
Yep, I still think the issue is sad and segregating, the call for submissions poorly worded, and the implications upsetting.
LOL
Woot!
BTW go look at my LJ to see the film project I have started working with, going to see if I can't wiggle you in to it some how.
Realms of Fantasy - I don't get their email policy. It's a standard submission format these days, and sometimes the only means to send a story. They're way behind the times.
The sour grapes argument is always trotted out when people don't have a leg to stand on. I also think it's one used on writers rather a lot, to deflect reasonable criticisms that editors don't want to face up to.
I don't mind a rejection - that's part of the game. But no response at all is just rude, particularly considering I went to the expense of sending the submission by mail (and for international submissions, postage and reply coupons are an expense).
After that experience, I removed this publisher from my personal "markets to submit" list. There's no reason to waste money submitting into a black hole.
Cora
Thanks! Have any more?
That is some condescending, pro-status quo (I like how I can spot conservatives now by the way they treat "affirmative action" as a dirty word!) idiotic blathering I have seen from media industry professionals
in a long timein a few weeks.I'm a reader and a writer, and I just cannot support that magazine anymore. I just can't. This is what, the THIRD time they've said something bigoted and then pulled the ostriches with heads in the sand act?
I'm glad that Doug apologized. I don't think the original intent of issue idea even came from him, if I'm understanding correctly, so I won't speculate on that. However, I don't have confidence that he is an ally or even past the -isms 101 stage, and his boss is obviously a complete arse. Why should I give my money to people who think I'm spilling sour grapes (I've never submitted), that I don't buy anyway (I did. DID, past tense.), and that I'm automatically less talented -- and by implication, less than human -- for being female?
Enough.
Steampunk: Reloaded
As to RoF's issue, I haven't been paying enough attention to speak knowledgeably.
Also, RoF, WTF.
Sigh.
I'll just be over here rolling my eyes.
Did you know that Cat doesn't read? I'd somehow missed that. Totally shocked, I tell you!
And every time someone dismisses you for those insights, it always ends badly for them and they get bad publicity over it. *shakes head* stupid people, no cookie!
As far as RoF go -- they're just...well, dickwads is the word that first comes to mind. Because sure, if you don't agree with them in every detail, you're obviously a hack writer who can't read and has nothing better to do with your time than attack them. I'd like to know when a disagreement with someone became an "attack", though.
Twerps.
Congrats! And forgive RoF for being defensive; they're obviously on the wrong side of this issue (in two senses, I guess) and must know it, poor things.