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(1) YE KEN NOW. [Via MT Void.] Read Michael Dirda’s article "The two best American fantasy writers you’ve probably never heard of" at the Washington Post. He’s talking about Avram Davidson and Manly Wade Wellman. … Happily, though, these too-little-known but excellent writers — did I mention that both were honored with the World Fantasy
Unfit magazines use Thinkerbeat Reader to “chart… the authors that we thought did really well with a story submission.” But these are not stories they bought – six days ago they tweeted out a link to the list of stories they rejected. The page had names, titles, and a rating between one and five stars. One problem: none of the authors had given them permission to do so. SFWA issued a statement on Facebook warning about the practices in March. Nine months later, Longshot Press is now trying to discredit SFWA in its post “A Clear Bias at the SFWA”. Why does the SFWA post fa...