Shameless Self-Promotion (Editorial, NYRSF 309)

I’m writing this in mid-May, with fairly high confidence that you will have it in your hot electronic hands well before the end of the month. Huzzah for being on schedule! I expect the June issue will also be on time. July might slip because of convention season (see below), but not, I hope, by much, and then August and beyond should all be well under control.

I talk a lot about hitting and missing our schedule, because that’s one of the things David Hartwell drummed into me: once a monthly magazine starts getting cavalier about its deadlines, it stops being monthly, then stops being bi-monthly, then stops being quarterly, then stops being. Our schedule is a promise not just for this month, but for all months to come.

Our Back Pages

Periodically I like to remind people that (pretty much) our entire run is still available. We have paper copies of the first 24 years of NYRSF available at a new bargain price: $3/issue for any issue of your choice; if you order more than 5 issues, the price drops to $2 each, and 100 or more paper issues of your choice are only $1 each! You can also get our grab bags, sets of 40 unique, random, irreplaceable issues for $20, 60 issues for $30, or 80 for $40. E-mail [email protected] for more information. Take a look at our index <bit.ly/NYRSFIndex> and I’m sure you find something that piques your interest.

More recent back issues—volume 24 and up, from September 2011 onward—are also available through Weightless Books for a mere $2.99 each in the standard array of formats—epub and Mobi for e-readers, PDF for large-screen readers or for printing out. You can find those at <bit.ly/NYRSFIssues>, and they’re included in the Index as well.

And for those who want shiny printed copies, all of volume 24 and up are available as print-on-demand double issues from Lulu.com at <bit.ly/NYRSFLulu>.

Lights of Other Browsers

Another point that I don’t hit nearly often enough is that www.NYRSF.com is once again a going concern. Every issue, we post 3 or 4 articles from the issue on the site, with comments enabled (with screening and moderation), along with a full table of contents and this very selfsame editorial. Go check it out!

I also mention this periodically: The best ways to keep up with us online are through the NYRSF Facebook page (facebook.com/NYRSF) and the NYRSF Twitter feed, @nyrsf. In addition to new issue announcements and updates to the web site, we post/tweet things that we think are cool. And you like cool things or you wouldn’t be reading this.

Can’t Forget the Motor City

For me, the highlight of July is definitely going to be DetCon 1, the 2014 NASFiC (North American Science Fiction and Fantasy and All That Cool Stuff Convention), at which my wife, our husband, and I will be the joint Fan Guests of Honor. You can read more about us here <detcon1.org/coming/guests-of-honor/#BoskyHlavatyMaroney>, but basically we’re a group of fannish writerly types who have somehow managed to make an odd-numbered marriage for the past 22 years. Arthur and Bernadette are fascinating people, and I can talk for a long time about stuff and things, so you should come and see us and all the other wonderful members of the convention. The other Guest of Honor are Steven Barnes, John Picacio, Helen Greiner, Bill Sutton, Brenda Sutton, Nnedi Okorafor, and Jon Davis, so it will be splendid. Detroit, July 17–20. See you there!

—Kevin J. Maroney and the editors