While I was out having meetings yesterday evening people were talking about me. More specifically they were walking about Emerald City. I tracked this down to Paul C. Smith, who was talking mainly about Paul Jessup’s plans for a new online magazine about weird fiction.

For what it’s worth, I never saw Emerald City as an exclusively weird fiction magazine. Obviously my fondness for the likes of China Miéville and Jeff VanderMeer meant that I wrote a lot about such work, but I did try to read fairly broadly, and will continue to do so. But best of luck to Paul in his new venture.

I have actually considered using Kickstarter for my own business plans, but I’m not sure I like it. To start with I’m going to do something regardless of whether I get some arbitrary level of start-up finding. Also if your project does reach the funding target they take 5% of the money. But it might be useful for some projects, and I do still have a US bank account.

Talking of fund raising, Liz Williams now has a PayPal button up for people to subscribe to her new short story series. Inspector Chen fans, you know what you need to do.