The separation between the novel markets and the short story markets took place a long time ago, when fantasy and vampires and space wars became the dominant modes for novels. Those don't translate into short stories very well. And the kind of short stories people write don't translate into those types of novels.
Earl Derr Biggers, the creator of Charlie Chan, once was asked why he never wrote a Charlie Chan short story. He said, essentially, that if he got a good idea for a story he wrote it as a novel. That's pretty much the same today. People write worlds at 900 pages. That pays 900 times as much as a short story so why even bother? Not to mention that's there's only room for a half dozen short stories in a magazine and Nancy usually has three of those spots. On Mar 29, 5:22 pm, delancey <[email protected]> wrote: > This is very interesting, in fact. I was surprised that short story > publications seemed to matter so very very little. > > \ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en.
