Realms of Fantasy has proven beyond reviving. So sad.
Posted by redux (Member # 9277) on :
RoF was a pretty decent magazine. It's sad to see it go.
Posted by Brad R Torgersen (Member # 8211) on :
I've said it elsewhere, the days when an explicitly short fiction market could survive without subsidy from a parent organization, are probably behind us. Warren Lapine gave it the college try, but there was not enough marketplace support to make it viable. Too bad.
Posted by tchernabyelo (Member # 2651) on :
I suspect we'll see it again at some point next year, but probably in a very different format. It's got too much of history and too much of a name/presence for someone not to try something with it.
Posted by History (Member # 9213) on :
And I just purchased their last issue at Borders to examine the type of stories they publish. Ah, well.
I see he's willing to sell ownership of ROF for just $1.00. He invested $50K to publish ROF, and it is listed as a SFWA professional publication. So, if you REALLY want to be a professional writer....
Posted by rstegman (Member # 3233) on :
I heard that there are a number of pulp magazines coming out now. They prefer series, each story complete in and of themselves, but each story carries on from where the last started. The one I know about is already swamped for the people they have working there.
Posted by Robert Nowall (Member # 2764) on :
I was afraid of that all along. Or I suspected it would happen all along. Either way.
Posted by LDWriter2 (Member # 9148) on :
It is sad, and as someone said I too was afraid it won't last even though it should.
Posted by KayTi (Member # 5137) on :
I have this vague sense that what Amazon has recently announced with moderately short (by that I mean long short) fiction and with how easy it is to publish your own short stories (I just published one of mine on Smashwords. It was easy, though time-consuming to do it the first time) that the short fiction market will be completely different in a few years' time.
Too bad for this market, though, as I know it meant a lot to a lot of people.
Posted by LDWriter2 (Member # 9148) on :
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Realms of Fantasy has proven beyond reviving. So sad.
There're not the only one Dreams of Decadence closed also and I think they were owned by the same company. Which is why I mention it here.
That and because even though I didn't like the name they were the only market that specifically asked for urban fantasy. Others include it in a list of fantasy but they asked for it.
