Vi a Margo, a New Year’s Resolution:

Oh, and there’s a great profile of her here.

Well, it just turned over to 2006, so Happy New Year!!! More soon… (well, tomorrow).

I’ve enjoyed Eileen Gunn’s Infinite Matrix, so I was saddened to hear it was closing. Eileen has fought the good fight for a long time to keep it going, but it plainly wasn’t to be. As it prepares to join SciFiction and Lenox Avenue in the digital abyss, it seems fair to suggest that the future of the online publication of original fiction seems likely to undergo some major seachange. With new ‘zines from Jim Baen and Orson Scott Card either online, or due online in the New Year, and with podcasts and such on the rise, these are interesting times. In the meantime, a book containing the best of Infinite Matrix seems like a swell idea.

I’ve enjoyed Eileen Gunn’s Infinite Matrix, so I was saddened to hear it was closing. Eileen has fought the good fight for a long time to keep it going, but it plainly wasn’t to be. As it prepares to join SciFiction and Lenox Avenue in the digital abyss, it seems fair to suggest that the future of the online publication of original fiction seems likely to undergo some major seachange. With new ‘zines from Jim Baen and Orson Scott Card either online, or due online in the New Year, and with podcasts and such on the rise, these are interesting times. In the meantime, a book containing the best of Infinite Matrix seems like a swell idea.

I spent a lot of time at World Fantasy this year talking to publishing folk. I like talking to publishing folk, and it was a lot of fun. One very strong impression I came away with is that the ‘hot’ thing at the moment is romantic fantasy, especially romantic fantasy with vampires. It seems that, following in the footsteps of Laurell K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake and Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer, everyone wants to tap into the romance/fantasy/vampire/chicklit crossover. I don’t know why this is so, but it is. sigh.