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John Scalzi@scalzi.com |
Fucking correct
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Eric Hildeman
@hildyeric.bsky.social
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And if you don’t win, you’re a sucker.
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William B Hill
@wbhwrites.bsky.social
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I remember hearing about reading fees when I first looked into submitting my writing, and thought “I’m broke, no go.” And then I read your comments about all money flowing to the writer. I have never paid a reading fee because of that.
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GoodCitizen
@goodcitizen.bsky.social
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Musician enters the chat: absolutely fucking correct
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Nicholas Weaver
@ncweaver.skerry-tech.com
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@annleckie.com
I wonder if the rise of AI powered spam is going to force things to change slightly: a token ($1-2) fee just as an anti-spam measure? So the fee is not to gain revenue but clearly just to stop total crap from showing up?
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Timpanogos Slim
@timpanogosslim.bsky.social
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Fuck fees. Those assholes are just looking to make money on the unpaid labor of others.
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John Sundman
@jsundman.bsky.social
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I agree with you but in 2000 I paid $50 to enter Writer's Digest Magazine's 'National Self-Published Book Award' contest. There were, like, I think, 1k entrants & I won for my cyberpunk Acts of the Apostles. $500, plus a bunch of stickers to put on my books & a few WD cover stories @ $100 per.
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Very Ambivalent Very Ricky
@ambivalentricky.bsky.social
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It's largely impossible to submit poetry without paying reading fees anymore. To get a book published you generally have to win a contest and all contests have reading fees. This is a reason I don't submit, but at the same time these publications are not scamming writers.
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B J. Witkin
@itsjustbeej.bsky.social
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The money flows TO the writer, right? 😏
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Jenni Momsen
@jennimomsen.bsky.social
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Scientist here and I think we’re doing it all wrong as journals increasingly charge authors to publish. All while not paying reviewers and editors.
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Allan Donsig
@adonsig.bsky.social
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It’s the Bester & Heinlein story contest story, right? (from en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_...)
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Meredith Rose
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Still mad as hell that some of these fee-farms are considered “legitimate” and even prestigious for the SFF short fiction circuit. I got duped once.
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Shrub Dryad
@shrubdryad.bsky.social
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Even if the publication is a nonprofit?
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Rachel Handley 🏳️🌈
@rachelhandley.bsky.social
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100% money should always flow to the writer, not from them.
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