A cautionary tale
Jan. 28th, 2009 04:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
threemonkeysI know a few of you have published SF anthologies of some sort over the years. This is for you...
I read an anthology called Omega edited by Roger Elwood. It appears to be an ambitions early '70s collection of stories by authors trying hard to push the "new wave" envelope. It does not work all that well but you had to admire the editor for trying to find out where things could be pushed.
I was interested enough to find out a little more so I looked up Roger Elwood's Wikipedia entry. You really should have a read. I really can't see anybody here ending up like this, but its worth having a look so you know who to blame when you can't get your anthology published.
In other news, today on National Radio was a report on Wikipedia planning changes to the way biographical entries can be updated.
I read an anthology called Omega edited by Roger Elwood. It appears to be an ambitions early '70s collection of stories by authors trying hard to push the "new wave" envelope. It does not work all that well but you had to admire the editor for trying to find out where things could be pushed.
I was interested enough to find out a little more so I looked up Roger Elwood's Wikipedia entry. You really should have a read. I really can't see anybody here ending up like this, but its worth having a look so you know who to blame when you can't get your anthology published.
In other news, today on National Radio was a report on Wikipedia planning changes to the way biographical entries can be updated.
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Date: 2009-01-28 04:25 am (UTC)To kill the anthology market anywhere now, first it has to be alive and outside of the dedicated con-going crowd it only rarely shows signs of life. (Thinking in sales volume terms that is - not quality). I don't think it has ever recovered from Elwood.