Some jolly decent chap has gone and bought Realms of Fantasy from Sovereign Media, which means the magazine will not be going bust, which means that my story THE DEMON OF HOCHGARTEN will indeed be appearing.
All very nice, I must say. It's good to hear of a magazine coming back from the dead--but having said that, I think RoF is going to have to think about shifting its focus away from print and more toward the web. It seems to me that more and more short fiction is becoming an internet-only medium (witness the recent growth in pro-rates e-zines such as Beneath Ceaseless Skies and Clarkesworld). Even if the print version of the magazine continues for a long time, eventually I believe it's going to be a web-only deal.
On a side-note: this might have interesting linguistic effects on the stories published. There's probably a decent paper somewhere in applying systemic functional grammatical analysis to a comparison of fiction in online and print venues. Something to think about.
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