Well, that's a sad thing.

[seawasp]

From wyjoe, we get the news that Jim Baen's Universe is closing up.

It was an ambitious experiment to create another, high-paying venue for short SF/F fiction. They gave it four years.

But it never quite reached the level necessary.

I'm afraid I'm not particularly surprised. It's not a real blow for me -- I don't write short stories, really -- but for those who aren't writing in the novel category this could hurt. There just aren't that many worthwhile venues available, and those that exist are getting more pinched. I wouldn't be surprised if, by the time I'm 60, all of the SF magazines are gone.

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[meril.livejournal.com]

Same here. I subbed for two years, stopped reading it when my PDA broke, and forgot to check it again to see if there were stories by authors I was interested in.

(And, re the main publishing business--outside of the yearly Weber and Drake release and whatever seawasp comes out with...haven't been buying those either.)