I'm going to finally decommission this account and just be @chipotle on Mastodon. (I'm hoping I've disabled the Twitter crossposting via Moa, which is a little…let's say "fiddly." It's fiddly.)
This obituary for Gene Wolfe is one of the most brilliant, weirdly sweet articles I’ve read online in years. https://www.theringer.com/2019/4/25/18515675/gene-wolfe-science-fiction-author
Medium thinks it's a brand: https://micro.coyotetracks.org/2019/04/13/medium-thinks-its.html
I'm sure there's something more tiring than arguing with people about why furry publishers pay so little, but I can't think of it right now. (Bottom line: the bottom line. Nearly all of them pay 0.5–1¢ a word because they barely break even at that point; I'm not sure we've *ever* had a print anthology that could have sustained a 3¢/word pay rate.)
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