A Few Weird Tales Follow-up Links

[jimhines]

Before I get into the links, I wanted to say thank you to everyone for your support and encouragement after Wednesday’s post. I’m declaring comment amnesty for myself because I just couldn’t keep up with them all, but I’ve read and very much appreciated every single one. Thank you!

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A number of people have reported that Weird Tales editor Marvin Kaye is responding to and defending himself in emails, but despite the publisher’s claim that Kaye would be making a statement shortly, I’ve not seen anything. That said, the publisher’s post went up five days ago. I know that businesses can’t always respond on Internet time. But I hope we’ll see some follow-up soon.

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I was very happy to see #ThoroughlyGoodBooksbyPOC show up as a trending topic on Twitter, at least briefly. Shaun Duke has compiled an alphabetical list of recommended books and authors here.

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I had caught Mary Robinette Kowal’s announcement that, in response to the Weird Tales mess, Shimmer was now paying pro rates. What I hadn’t realized was that Kowal was underwriting this rate increase herself. I therefore nominate her for the Golden Platypus Award for Awesomeness.

Mirrored from Jim C. Hines.