{"id":538,"date":"2014-07-30T14:17:47","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T19:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=538"},"modified":"2014-07-30T14:17:47","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T19:17:47","slug":"and-the-titles-a-quite-good-one-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=538","title":{"rendered":"And the title&#8217;s a quite good one, too."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know what short story writers like?<\/p>\n<p>Magazines.  We really, really like magazines that publish short stories.  (Y&#8217;know.  Like the ones we write.)  Which is why I commend to your attention the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/lynnemthomas\/uncanny-magazine-year-one\">Kickstarter for Uncanny magazine.<\/a>  It&#8217;s the new project from the twisty, uncanny brains of the Thomases, who used to work with Apex and who were some of the editors I worked with on the Apex story some of you may have enjoyed earlier this summer.  If I listened carefully (I&#8217;m pretty tired, so you should go listen carefully yourself), it looks like their business model is to have subscribers get an early e-book version of the magazine and then provide the stories online for the general reader, so if you help fund, there&#8217;s more stories for you early and then more stories for everyone eventually.  I think pretty much everyone who reads this can get behind that idea.<\/p>\n<p>So: Thomases!  Weird speculative fiction projects!  Track record good, outlook positive, go think about their new thing and whether you have two dimes to rub together and throw into making it go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know what short story writers like? Magazines. We really, really like magazines that publish short stories. (Y&#8217;know. Like the ones we write.) Which is why I commend to your attention the Kickstarter for Uncanny magazine. It&#8217;s the new project from the twisty, uncanny brains of the Thomases, who used to work with Apex and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27,25,4],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-my-friends-rule","tag-my-uncle-has-a-barn","tag-ooh-shiny"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":539,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions\/539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}