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January 3, 2014
2014 Awards Eligibility Post
Last year, Clarkesworld Magazine received its third Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine. It appears as though we’ll be going out on top. The combined income from Clarkesworld (and its parent, Wyrm Publishing) has just barely crossed the threshold for semiprozine eligibility. We are NOT eligible for nomination this year. This is a very good sign for the future of Clarkesworld and gives me continued hope that someday I’ll be able to make this my full-time career. Thank you to all our subscribers, advertisers, and donors for helping us achieve this bittersweet milestone.
It has been my honor to be nominated (and lose to Sheila and Stan) for the Hugo Award for Best Editor (Short Form). I continue to be eligible in this category and hope that you will consider nominating me again.
Our stories continue to be eligible. Here’s a complete list of Clarkesworld‘s 2013 stories and novelettes:
Novelettes (7,501 to 17,500 words)
“Cry of the Kharchal” by Vandana Singh
“One Flesh” by Mark Bourne and Elizabeth Bourne
“The Symphony of Ice and Dust” by Julie Novakova
Short Stories (up to 7500 words)
“Driftings” by Ian McDonald
“Variations on Bluebeard and Dalton’s Law Along the Event Horizon” by Helena Bell
“Effigy Nights” by Yoon Ha Lee
“Gravity” by Erzebet YellowBoy
“The Wanderers” by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
“Vacant Spaces” by Greg Kurzawa
“The Weight of a Blessing” by Aliette de Bodard
“The Last Survivor of the Great Sexbot Revolution” by A.C. Wise
“86, 87, 88, 89” by Genevieve Valentine
“Annex” by Benjanun Sriduangkaew
“No Portraits on the Sky” by Kali Wallace
“Melt With You” by Emily C. Skaftun
“Soulcatcher” by James Patrick Kelly
“Tachy Psyche” by Andy Dudak
“(R + D) /I = M” by E. Catherine Tobler
“The Urashima Effect” by E. Lily Yu
“This is Why We Jump” by Jacob Clifton
“Free-Fall” by Graham Templeton
“Pockets Full of Stones” by Vajra Chandrasekera
“I Tell Thee All, I Can No More” by Sunny Moraine
“Across the Terminator” by David Tallerman
“Shepherds” by Greg Kurzawa
“Found” by Alex Dally MacFarlane
“Mar Pacifico” by Greg Mellor
“The Promise of Space” by James Patrick Kelly
“Bits” by Naomi Kritzer
“The Creature Recants” by Dale Bailey
“Mystic Falls” by Robert Reed
“The Aftermath” by Maggie Clark
“Never Dreaming (In Four Burns)” by Seth Dickinson
“Daedalum, the Devil’s Wheel” by E. Lily Yu
“Of Alternate Adventures and Memory” by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz
“Silent Bridge, Pale Cascade” by Benjanun Sriduangkaew
An interesting side-note: While we are now “professional” in the eyes of the Hugo Awards, we are still “non-professional” by World Fantasy Award definitions. We still have a way to go there.
January 1, 2014
The January 2014 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine
The January 2014 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine is now available. You can get the issue:
Online at www.clarkesworldmagazine.com
Via podcast subscription (free)
or help us pay the bills by purchasing Clarkesworld with a subscription at:
Amazon.com
Apple Newsstand (iPad/iPhone)
Google Play (Android Phones and Tablets)
Weightless Books
or as a single issue ebook from Amazon, B&N, Kobo, Weightless, Wizard’s Tower and direct from us at Wyrm Publishing
JANUARY 2014 – ISSUE #88
FICTION
“The Clockwork Soldier” by Ken Liu
“Grave of the Fireflies” by Cheng Jingbo
“Wine” by Yoon Ha Lee
“Ship’s Brother” by Aliette de Bodard
“Utriusque Cosmi” by Robert Charles Wilson
NONFICTION
Distributed Cities by Carl Abbott
Driving through a Cloud with Pat Cadigan by Jeremy L. C. Jones
Another Word: Will Aliens be Alien? by Craig DeLancey
Editor’s Desk: Anthologies, Patreon, and the 2013 Reader’s Poll & Contest by Neil Clarke
PODCAST
This month’s stories will be released in audio form over the course of the month. Read by Kate Baker.
COVER ART
Guten Morgen by Waldemar Kazak
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December 13, 2013
Patreon
Have you heard of Patreon? They are a cross between subscriptions and Kickstarter. Their purpose is to enable fans to support and engage with content producers. It’s become quite popular with people that regularly produce free content (podcasts, YouTube channels, etc.) and I think it has a lot to offer the publishers of online magazines.
Clarkesworld has always accepted donations, but this portion of our income has always been erratic and unstable at best. It is almost impossible to plan around a year’s worth of donations, so instead, it becomes the rainy day or special projects fund.
Patreon’s model is based on recurring pledges. Basically, it’s a monthly subscription and that’s a model that works extremely well for a magazine. You can plan around that and it fits our existing infrastructure beautifully. It also allows us to provide another option to the people who want to support us, but have no interest in ebooks. We’ve heard from several people that fit that profile, so…
Clarkesworld Magazine now has a Patreon account and it is fully integrated into our citizenship program. (Don’t know what that is? Details on our Patreon page.) We’ve also established a goal that, when reached, will add another story to each issue of the magazine. Yes, this is in addition to the same offer we’ve made in regards to our digital subscriptions at Amazon, Apple, Google Play and Weightless.
Check out our page and let me know what you think.
December 10, 2013
Clarkesworld: Year Five ebooks now available
Wyrm Publishing has released CLARKESWORLD: YEAR FIVE in ePub and MOBI/Kindle editions. Trade paperback is coming later this month.
Since 2006, Clarkesworld Magazine has been entertaining science fiction and fantasy fans with their brand of unique science fiction and fantasy stories. Collected here are all of the original stories this Hugo Award-winning magazine published during their fifth year. Included in this volume are twenty-four stories by visionary writers of short fiction, including Ken Liu, Nnedi Okorafor, Robert Reed, N.K. Jemisin, Yoon Ha Lee, E. Lily Yu, and more!
CONTENTS
Introduction by Neil Clarke
Ghostweight by Yoon Ha Lee
Perfect Lies by Gwendolyn Clare
Tying Knots by Ken Liu
Seeing by Genevieve Valentine
Salvaging Gods by Jacques Barcia
Laying the Ghost by Eric Brown
The Children of Main Street by A. C. Wise
Diving After the Moon by Rachel Swirsky
Three Oranges by D. Elizabeth Wasden
Matchmaker by Erin M. Hartshorn
Trickster by Mari Ness
The Book of Phoenix (Excerpted from The Great Book) by Nnedi Okorafor
The Architect of Heaven by Jason K. Chapman
Frozen Voice by An Owomoyela
Trois morceaux en forme de mechanika by Gord Sellar
Pack by Robert Reed
Semiramis by Genevieve Valentine
Whose Face This Is I Do Not Know by Cat Rambo
The Taxidermist’s Other Wife by Kelly Barnhill
On the Banks of the River Lex by N. K. Jemisin
Signals in the Deep by Greg Mellor
The Fish of Lijiang by Chen Qiufan, translated by Ken Liu
Conservation of Shadows by Yoon Ha Lee
The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees by E. Lily Yu
Clarkesworld Citizens – Official Census
About Clarkesworld
Trade Paperback Coming Soon
EBook Edition Now Available at:
Amazon.com
B&N
Kobo
Weightless Books
Wizard’s Tower
Wyrm Publishing
December 3, 2013
December 2013 Issue of Clarkesworld Magazine
The December 2013 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine is now available. You can get the issue:
Online at www.clarkesworldmagazine.com
Via podcast subscription (free)
or help us pay the bills by purchasing Clarkesworld with a subscription at:
Amazon.com
Apple Newsstand (iPad/iPhone) *NEW*
Google Play (Android Phones and Tablets) *NEW*
Weightless Books
or as a single issue ebook from Amazon, B&N, Kobo, Weightless, Wizard’s Tower and direct from us at Wyrm Publishing
DECEMBER 2013 – ISSUE #87
FICTION
“Daedalum, the Devil’s Wheel” by E. Lily Yu
“Of Alternate Adventures and Memory” by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz
“Silent Bridge, Pale Cascade” by Benjanun Sriduangkaew
“1016 to 1″ by James Patrick Kelly
“The Pure Product” by John Kessel
NONFICTION
Druids Reconstructed by Lee Beavington
A Craftsman of No Small Skill: A Conversation with David Drake by Jeremy L. C. Jones
Another Word: Two and a Half Writers by Daniel Abraham
Editor’s Desk: Behind the Scenes Tour by Neil Clarke
PODCAST
This month’s stories will be released in audio form over the course of the month. Read by Kate Baker.
COVER ART
Elliptic by Julie Dillon
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November 1, 2013
November 2013 Issue of Clarkesworld Magazine
The November 2013 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine is now available. You can get the issue:
Online at www.clarkesworldmagazine.com
Via podcast subscription (free)
or help us pay the bills by purchasing Clarkesworld with a subscription at:
Amazon.com
Apple Newsstand (iPad/iPhone) *NEW*
Google Play (Android Phones and Tablets) *NEW*
Weightless Books
or as a single issue ebook from Amazon, B&N, Kobo, Weightless, Wizard’s Tower and direct from us at Wyrm Publishing
NOVEMBER 2013 – ISSUE #86
FICTION
“Mystic Falls” by Robert Reed
“The Aftermath” by Maggie Clark
“Never Dreaming (In Four Burns)” by Seth Dickinson
“Manifest Destiny” by Joe Haldeman
“Special Economics” by Maureen F. McHugh
NONFICTION
Sapir-Whorf Must Die by Anaea Lay
Hard Truths in Our World: A Conversation with Bradley P. Beaulieu by Jeremy L. C. Jones
Another Word: What I Did on My Summer Vacation by Jamie Todd Rubin
Editor’s Desk: Year Seven by the Numbers by Neil Clarke
PODCAST
This month’s stories will be released in audio form over the course of the month. Read by Kate Baker.
COVER ART
Lost in Space by Piotr Foksowicz
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October 14, 2013
Capclave Ebook Workshop
Had a great time at Capclave this weekend. One of the things I did there was run a small intro to ebook design workshop. With only two hours, I decided to go with more of a shotgun approach to covering the topic. It would have been nicer with a bigger screen, but overall, there were only a handful of things I would have done differently. If you were there, thanks for attending and I hope you were able to get something out of it.
Here are some of the things I shared with the group:
Sigil (for editing the epub files)
Calibre (for converting epub to mobi/kindle)
Word2CleanHTML.com (for stripping a Word document down to the basics)
EPUB Validator (to test your epub files before converting to mobi)
Nook Reader App (reads epub files on a variety of devices)
Kindle Reading App (reads mobi files on a variety of devices)
Adobe Digital Editions (reads epub files and tends to act odder than others)
MobileRead Forums (great place to get answers about anything ebook, my go-to site)
I also promised to share the basic CSS I had used for my examples:
p {
margin-top: 0em;
margin-bottom: 0em;
text-indent: 1.27em;
}
p.noindent {
margin-top: 1em;
text-indent: 0em;
}
p.line-above {
margin-top: 1em;
}
p.line-above2 {
margin-top: 2em;
}
h1 {
margin-top: 4em;
text-indent: 0em;
font-size: 1.6em;
font-weight: bold;
text-align: center;
margin-bottom: 2em;
}
p.book-title {
margin-top: 3em;
font-size: 1.7em;
font-weight: bold;
text-indent: 0em;
text-align: center;
margin-bottom: 0em;
}
p.author {
margin-top: 0em;
font-size: 1.5em;
text-indent: 0em;
font-weight: bold;
text-align: center;
margin-bottom: 1em;
}
p.centered {
text-indent: 0em;
text-align: center;
}
I didn’t say I was going to do this, but I’m going to start blogging some of the details from the session. It’s going to take a bit of time (need to squeeze it into my schedule), but you’ll eventually have everything we covered with details.
October 2, 2013
The Clarkesworld App is now available
The Clarkesworld Magazine apps for iPad, iPhone, and Android devices launched yesterday! The app is free to download and from within, you can purchase individual issues or monthly subscriptions.
If you don’t already have a subscription through Amazon or Weightless, I hope you’ll consider supporting us by choosing one of these alternatives.
Download now from iTunes or Google Play.
October 1, 2013
October 2013 Issue of Clarkesworld Magazine
The October 2013 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine is now available. You can get the issue:
Online at www.clarkesworldmagazine.com
Via podcast subscription (free)
or help us pay the bills by purchasing Clarkesworld with a subscription at:
Amazon.com
Apple Newsstand (iPad/iPhone) *NEW*
Google Play (Android Phones and Tablets) *NEW*
Weightless Books
or as a single issue ebook from Amazon, B&N, Kobo, Weightless, Wizard’s Tower and direct from us at Wyrm Publishing
OCTOBER 2013 – ISSUE #85
FICTION
“The Symphony of Ice and Dust” by Julie Novakova
“Bits” by Naomi Kritzer
“The Creature Recants” by Dale Bailey
“The Ki-anna” by Gwyneth Jones
“A Night at the Tarn House” by George R.R. Martin
NONFICTION
Difficulties of an Asteroid Capture Mission by Karen Burnham
Deep into the Dark: A Conversation with Lavie Tidhar by Jeremy L. C. Jones
Another Word: What Are You Doing Here? by Daniel Abraham
Editor’s Desk: Seven and Counting by Neil Clarke
PODCAST
This month’s stories will be released in audio form over the course of the month. Read by Kate Baker.
COVER ART
Neo Maya by Raúl Cruz
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Thanks!
September 23, 2013
Clarkesworld Promotional Poster for Capclave
I’ve been trying to come up with a different Clarkesworld poster for each convention I have a table at. This is what I have in store for Capclave next month:
