Arkham Tales kaput

[Bill Ward]

Just saw that the pdf ezine Arkham Tales will be closing with today's release of their fifth issue (which includes our very own Rob Santa).

So it goes . . .

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[erazmus]

Aww-sh**!
I liked them a lot.

Mike

Michael D. Turner
'Psyched Up' in _Turn the other Chick_-ed. E. Friesner-Baen books
www.baen.com
'Dutchman Rescue'in Continuum SF #6
www.continuumsciencefiction.com/orders.htm

'An Incident at Black Tongue Tavern' in _Bash Down the Door and Slice Open the Badguy_ from Fantasist Enterprises:

www.fantasistent.com/books/anthologies/BASH.php
'Pink Plastic Flamingos''What Smitty Saw' 'Elvis's Space Alien Lovechild' 'Two Ravens''Rejection' (forthcoming) in Big Pulp
www.bigpulp.com/index.html
'Stains''Two ravens''Job Security' 'Yeti Yet' 'Characters in Flight'(forthcoming)in Tales of the Talisman 3-1 www.zianet.com/hadrosaur/index.html
'Morning Coffee''Happy Landings''Teller of Tales''Silver Shells''I'm tired of Bombs, and my dog is dead' 'One Dark Night'in Every Day Fiction
www.everydayfiction.com
'The Jewel Below' 'Mo the Mountain' in Flashing Swords
flashingswords.sfreader.com
Read 'Silver Shells' In The Best of Every Day Fiction
www.everydayfiction.com/features/the-best-of-every-day-fiction-2008/

[Bill Ward]

Me too -- and I had two stories with them that now won't be seen.

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[Ropespor]

I liked it too. Really nice magazine. My story ran in issue 3, and I'm glad Rob got in--sorry yours won't see the light of day there, Bill, but good luck placing the stories elsewhere.


By the way, this is the second time tonight I've read a closing announcement (the other being Flashing Swords) that includes the words "because of the economic downturn."


Which brings me to another thought I had earlier today: Aren't there more speculative fiction fans out there who are independently wealthy? I mean, if even just a handful ofrich (or even just financially secure)sf fans decided to fill in these gaps as a labor of love, we wouldn't have to worry about economic downturns stripping the newsstands and the Web of high-quality sf publications.


http://knighterrors.blogspot.com The official serialization of Knight Terrors: The (Mis)Adventures of Smoke the Dragon, published by Abandoned Towers!
http://ozment.livejournal.com
http://manning.coldfusionvideo.com

[erazmus]

See my last post in Nathan's 'the Point System' thread.

Mike

Michael D. Turner
'Psyched Up' in _Turn the other Chick_-ed. E. Friesner-Baen books
www.baen.com
'Dutchman Rescue'in Continuum SF #6
www.continuumsciencefiction.com/orders.htm

'An Incident at Black Tongue Tavern' in _Bash Down the Door and Slice Open the Badguy_ from Fantasist Enterprises:

www.fantasistent.com/books/anthologies/BASH.php
'Pink Plastic Flamingos''What Smitty Saw' 'Elvis's Space Alien Lovechild' 'Two Ravens''Rejection' (forthcoming) in Big Pulp
www.bigpulp.com/index.html
'Stains''Two ravens''Job Security' 'Yeti Yet' 'Characters in Flight'(forthcoming)in Tales of the Talisman 3-1 www.zianet.com/hadrosaur/index.html
'Morning Coffee''Happy Landings''Teller of Tales''Silver Shells''I'm tired of Bombs, and my dog is dead' 'One Dark Night'in Every Day Fiction
www.everydayfiction.com
'The Jewel Below' 'Mo the Mountain' in Flashing Swords
flashingswords.sfreader.com
Read 'Silver Shells' In The Best of Every Day Fiction
www.everydayfiction.com/features/the-best-of-every-day-fiction-2008/

[Bill Ward]

Didn't even see the FS notice until this morning.

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[Lyn]

This is one reason I'm making a very slow transition from hobby blog with stories, to token market zine (on wordpress, which doesn't look half bad, does it?), to eventually a semi-pro product. At 1 cent a word, a 5k story is (okay, I know I sound silly spelling it out) $50. Which, if it comes straight from the publisher's pocket x5 or 6 stories per, does make publishing each issue an expensive habit. Better than doing drugs I suppose. So yeah, when you find those angel investors, send one my way, lol.

Lyn from ResAliens Zine, Blog, & Reviews
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[Christopher_Heath]

I never subbed to this, but sorry to see it go. Just read Rob's story and enjoyed it thoroughly; nice ending. Sorry Bill, it's always exciting to get an acceptance, so disappointing when the market folds before those stories are published--this has happened to me several times over as well. Good luck with the tales.