Travis Tea, of Justice

[jere7my]

PublishAmerica claimed, on their website, that SF writers are "writers who erroneously believe that SciFi, because it is set in a distant future, does not require believable storylines, or that Fantasy, because it is set in conditions that have never existed, does not need believable every-day characters."

PublishAmerica is a vanity press that will accept pretty much anything.

Thirty SF writers set out to push the limits of "pretty much", by writing as ineptly as they could, "forgetting" one chapter, choosing two writers to write the same chapter twice, and letting a computer write one chapter composed entirely of Markov strings based on the previous chapters.

And their work was accepted. You can read a bit here.

(The strange thing is, I've read this before. But I can't remember where. Pain pain pain. Need pee—new pain.)

Comments

[arctangent.livejournal.com]

Would've been easier on themselves to spare the arrogance and just say "We don't publish genre fiction because we don't like it". I would've respected them fine for that.

[god-of-belac.livejournal.com]

LOL! Alan Sokol lives! (well, he's still alive anyhow, but you get the point).

[megan-powell.livejournal.com]

You've read it everywhere before. Between the PublishAmerica debate, the definition of "professional" debate, the decline of [insert genre here] debate...there's a reason writers spend so much time with the people in their heads.