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I wanted to get today s installment out there quickly because I ve been seeing a lot of publishers/editors putting themselves at risk. I will preface this with the fact that I am not a lawyer. Recently, a number of editors and publishers have gone out of their way to announce how they ve been deceived by someone [ ]
I ve been working on a series of posts that have to do with issues related to AI and short fiction (particularly in light of some events of the last month) that I plan to post as I finish them. I m a slow writer, so this could take some time. First up, one aimed at the [ ]
I traveled out to California for the Locus Awards last weekend and was pleasantly surprised to win the Locus Award for Best Editor and to have Clarkesworld win for Best Magazine. But that was not all, we also had two stories win: “We Begin Where Infinity Ends” by Somto Ihezue won Best Novelette and “In [ ]
In 2025, we received 14,805 submissions and averaged 1,233 per month. That s an increase of roughly 130 per month over the prior year. This data does not include the AI -generated submissions that resulted in bans, but does include works we consider suspicious. These are stories that we believe may have been assisted or translated by [ ]
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In early September, I will be a guest at this year s Bulgacon, held in Pazardzhik, Bulgaria. I ve never been to Bulgaria before, so I m looking forward to visiting someplace new to me and meeting with local fans and fellow guests. I ve just received my schedule: Sept. 6 18:00–19:00 [EN] AI in Art and Why [ ]
I shared this video of a Cooper s Hawk enjoying the pool we set up for our wildlife on Bluesky and people wanted to know more about the setup. We started doing this a couple of years ago. We live near a wildlife refuge and have lots of little and big friends dropping by. In addition [ ]
Later this month I ll be attending the Seattle Worldcon. To help make it easier for people to find me there, I m sharing my program schedule below. I do have some unofficial things scheduled (dinners, lunches), but otherwise, I m happy to chat with people. If you can t find me at the con, try to catch me [ ]
Since I ve been trying to learn more about marketing, I ve been paying closer attention to ads for all sorts of products. One of the more amusing things I ve noticed is that if you are willing to embrace a certain overconfident marketing mindset, pharmaceutical ads can just as easily be genre magazine ads. In some parody [ ]
This is older news, but I wanted to have something I could easily point people to that explains how our submissions process has changed since the arrival of generative AI models. Up until March 2023, our submissions review process worked something like this: Plagiarism cases happened, but represented a very small percentage of monthly submissions. [ ]