September 2008 – Neil Clarke

Clarkesworld Honorable Mentions in YBF&H 2008

On 09/27/2008

The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: 21st Annual Collection edited by Ellen Datlow and Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant is out! The following Clarkesworld Magazine stories have received Honorable Mentions:

"Orm the Beautiful" by Elizabeth Bear
"Clockmaker’s Requiem" by Barth Anderson
"Something in the Mermaid Way" by Carrie Laben
"The Third Bear" by Jeff VanderMeer
"The Oracle Spoke" by Holly Phillips
"Moon Over Yodok" by David Charlton
"I’ll Gnaw Your Bones, the Manticore Said" by Cat Rambo
"The Ape’s Wife" by Caitlin R. Kiernan
"There’s No Light Between Floors" by Paul Tremblay

Clarkesworld Magazine reopens to submissions tomorrow.

By Neil Clarke

On 09/19/2008

In Uncategorized

What’s the same:

payrate: 10 cents per word
story length: 1-4K
stories to appear online (text and audio), as signed chapbooks, and in Realms, the annual Clarkesworld print anthology
the types of stories we’re looking for
non-fiction and art submissions submissions still via email

What’s different:

fiction submissions must be made through our online submissions system instead of email
an ability to check on the status of your submission through the same web page (including how many stories are ahead of you)
stories submitted as RTF or Word documents
form letters instead of personalized rejections
new group of slush readers
new editor: Neil Clarke
new goal: 14 day response response time

Full submission guidelines can be found here: http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/submissions/
Submissions received before September 20th will be deleted.

Technical issues can be sent to clarkesfiction@gmail.com. This is a new system, so honest feedback (to the same email address) would be appreciated.

another disgruntled sitemeter user

By Neil Clarke

On 09/14/2008

In Uncategorized

Sitemeter.com "upgraded" their services this weekend. This morning, I performed the mandatory migration and then it promptly seized while trying to load all the flash-powered graphs. Now it doesn’t even recognize my username and password. According to their new help files, all passwords have been uppercased, which just strikes me as stupid, but trying that didn’t help. A quick search and bloggers all over the place are complaining. The new software is a disaster.

Any other victims out there? I get the impression that l should be looking for alternative web stats packages…

EDIT: YAY! They are switching back!