One good thing is coming out ofyesterday ’s Weird Tales controversy : We ’re getting a brand new professional scientific discipline fabrication and fantasy magazine . Shimmer Magazine has been a nerveless pocket-sized - pressure cartridge holder that publish stories that are “ dark , strange , funny or all three , ” as Mary Robinette Kowal put it .
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But starting with its next upshot , Shimmer is increasing its remuneration rate to 5 cents per Holy Scripture — the minimum to stipulate as a professional market for theScience Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America . Kowal is making up the difference , so that there ’ll be a unexampled magazine for people who no longer feel like sending their work to Weird Tales .
Kowal quote Shimmer editor in honcho Beth Wodzinski as order :
Even without print the overtly racist chapter of Victoria Foyt ’s novel Save the Pearls , it ’s pretty clear that Weird Tales is no longer interested in publish the variety of beautiful , dark , and original fiction that I adore – and the outspoken outrage from the intact speculative fiction community show that we are not alone in loving these stories .
Kowal says she ’s pay out of her own air pocket to increase the salary rate at Shimmer , to “ make certain that there is a good household for all those weird tales in a magazine publisher that has always , always made me proud . ” So the big achiever out of all this could be writers whose strange , dark stories need a good home . [ Mary Robinette Kowal ]
Top figure of speech : John Picacio cover fine art for Shimmer Magazine .
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