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Nice to see short fiction making a bit of a comeback. Shame all this MAGA stuff didn't bring back the best thing about the 50s: short format and serial fiction periodicals.
Some of the short fiction magazines that still exist have had to stop accepting submissions from unknown authors. The month chat gpt was released they saw a 10x increase in submissions.
Amazon only accepts 500 book submissions per author now. Per day.
That's just bonkers. I'm sure the 99 cent shovelware ebook market is absolutely flooded.
I just can't believe there's that many people who can read that many books in the world.
Like, I can read a few books a year. Not 500 a day! If everybody wrote 500 books a day we would have like billions of books written per year.
They literally cost nothing to produce and the authors get pennies on the dollar, they didn't have to sell very many copies to make money.
I use SCP writings to replace the short form horror texts
Some of those are really good!
Yeah there's some really great and really terrible one lol. I like to listen to The Exploring Series on YouTube, he covers them really well.