Since I’ve been trying to learn more about marketing, I’ve been paying closer attention to ads for all sorts of products. One of the more amusing things I’ve noticed is that if you are willing to embrace a certain overconfident marketing mindset, pharmaceutical ads can just as easily be genre magazine ads. In some parody parallel universe, these people are working for us.| Neil Clarke
This is older news, but I wanted to have something I could easily point people to that explains how our submissions process has changed since the arrival of generative “AI” models. Up until March 2023, our submissions review process worked something like this: Plagiarism cases happened, but represented a very small percentage of monthly submissions. […]| Neil Clarke
For over a month now, Google has been spreading lies about us. The text below was created by their generative AI tools and inserted into the first page search results for various searches for “Clarkesworld” originating in the US. It’s even more likely to show up in date restricted (last 24 hours, last week, etc.) or “verbatim” responses. Numerous people have submitted complaints on our behalf, including some Google employees, but this result continues to display.| Neil Clarke
When I started Clarkesworld in 2006, it was already pretty well established that the shortest path to bankruptcy for a magazine was newsstand distribution. Since that time, it’s only become worse as the number of distributors has decreased and the costs have skyrocketed.| Neil Clarke
Voting on the winners in each category will close on February 15th at 11PM EST and this year’s winners will be announced in my March editorial.| Neil Clarke
Clarkesworld’s 2024 Fiction| Neil Clarke
I’ve been posting most of these updates in recent Clarkesworld editorials, but it’s only the 3rd and that’s a long time to wait for the next one. Here’s a recap:| Neil Clarke
Clarkesworld Magazine 2023 Stories and Cover Art| Neil Clarke