Things AI can do (but there aren't many)

[Homer Potvin]

Submission Grinder has noticed. Soo Generis' listing on there says "This publication uses some practices that are causes for delisting, including the editorial use of generative AI, as well as contracts that state that writers are implicitly agreeing to publication terms at time of submission."

Break that down for me, please. Particularly the "delisting" part.

 

[Naomasa298]

Break that down for me, please. Particularly the "delisting" part.

Basically, Submission Grinder is one of the two main sites where we look for places that are open for submissions. If they get delisted, i.e. just removed from their searches, very few people will find them to submit stories for their anthologies.

The generative AI part is the responses we're getting. The contracts bit, I have to say I didn't notice - nothing I got suggests that you agree to publish by submitting. Their T&Cs say "You are free to withdraw your work at any time before we make you a formal offer of publication. If we do make an offer, you will receive our full Publishing Agreement to review and sign before any binding commitment begins." So I don't know where that bit is coming from.

I have only had a first response from them. If their responses when it comes to the full editorial review sound like AI, I will probably withdraw, $0.08 a word be damned.

 

[Homer Potvin]

If they get delisted, i.e. just removed from their searches, very few people will find them to submit stories for their anthologies.

Gotcha. Submission Grinder would remove the publisher from their searches, thereby greatly restricting the publisher's ability to publish. That's an interesting stand on the part of Submission Grinder, if I understood it correctly.

$0.08 a word be damned.

Is that good?

 

[Naomasa298]

Gotcha. Submission Grinder would remove the publisher from their searches, thereby greatly restricting the publisher's ability to publish. That's an interesting stand on the part of Submission Grinder, if I understood it correctly.


Is that good?

Yeah, I think that's the minimum rate you have to sell three stories at to qualify to join SFWA (Science Fiction Writers of America). It's a low pro-rate. Pro rates go from $0.14-$0.08, semi-pro from $0.07-$0.01, token is $0.01 or a token, like $25 for a story.