Not to get too all-about-me, but just to use myself as an example, between various RL reasons for a long semi-accidental hiatus and just the luck of the editorial acceptance gods, all I've had is one reprint in the last 8 or so years. I've been submitting a lot and trying hard not to get discouraged, but the Clarkesworld thing is a blow, and the Grimdark Magazine announcement is a much worse one. Not because Grimdark is a venue that matches what I write terribly well -- I don't know that I'd ever have anything to submit to them personally, although I guess never say never -- but because lots of venues deciding to only go to known authors and solicited submissions means I would probably never have another story published, ever.
And, obviously, I'm one person and it doesn't, broadly speaking, matter that much to the industry if nobody publishes my stories. But I think there are a lot of writers in my shoes, and a lot of them less privileged and less connected than I.
I do at least tell myself that smaller magazines and magazines with shorter and more on-and-off submission windows, as you say, are likely getting hit less hard by this than the Clarkesworlds of the world. I hope so, anyway. But the whole thing feels awful.
I do think Idea 1 is a clever one, though! That, or variations on it, could be interesting approaches.
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Date: 2023-02-23 01:45 am (UTC)Not to get too all-about-me, but just to use myself as an example, between various RL reasons for a long semi-accidental hiatus and just the luck of the editorial acceptance gods, all I've had is one reprint in the last 8 or so years. I've been submitting a lot and trying hard not to get discouraged, but the Clarkesworld thing is a blow, and the Grimdark Magazine announcement is a much worse one. Not because Grimdark is a venue that matches what I write terribly well -- I don't know that I'd ever have anything to submit to them personally, although I guess never say never -- but because lots of venues deciding to only go to known authors and solicited submissions means I would probably never have another story published, ever.
And, obviously, I'm one person and it doesn't, broadly speaking, matter that much to the industry if nobody publishes my stories. But I think there are a lot of writers in my shoes, and a lot of them less privileged and less connected than I.
I do at least tell myself that smaller magazines and magazines with shorter and more on-and-off submission windows, as you say, are likely getting hit less hard by this than the Clarkesworlds of the world. I hope so, anyway. But the whole thing feels awful.
I do think Idea 1 is a clever one, though! That, or variations on it, could be interesting approaches.