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ellen_datlow ([personal profile] ellen_datlow) wrote2009-01-27 05:25 pm

Realms of Fantasy closing after April issue

Today it's been all over the blogosphere that Realms of Fantasy is being closed down by Sovereign Media after its April issue.

It's sad to lose any magazine in our field and I feel badly for Shawna McCarthy and her staff, who put a lot of themselves into the creation of the magazine.

The managing editor Laura Cleveland provided information on the closing to SFScope after rumors started earlier today. Those rumors began when Cleveland herself told an unnamed writer--before management alerted the staff (including Shawna, who is in Italy), the columnists, the authors whose work is in inventory, (some of which was purchased a mere week or two ago) or anyone else. Of course, the "writer" blabbed all over the net--and Cleveland is surprised.

Re: I'm beginning to wonder...

[identity profile] ellen-datlow.livejournal.com 2009-01-27 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. I saw the initial story and sorry, have no sympathy for him. He should have just killed himself and left his family alive.

Re: I'm beginning to wonder...

(Anonymous) 2009-01-28 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
Not the first:

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1848422,00.html

-MarcL

Re: I'm beginning to wonder...

[identity profile] jeffcrook.blogspot.com (from livejournal.com) 2009-01-29 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Amen.