A couple years ago, I created a site that was meant to be a clearinghouse for information about the annual Year's Best fantasy and science fiction anthologies. The idea was that editors of magazines and one-shot anthologies could go to that site to see what Year's Bests were being published in a given year, who the editors were, what the deadlines were, and how to submit published stories to them.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, I was never any good at keeping it up-to-date. I would usually neglect to update it until late in a given year, when half of the YBs were already closed. I would promise myself that I would get on it early the next year, and then I would fail to do so.<\/p>\n
So when the domain names for the site came up for renewal yesterday, I decided that it was no longer worth pretending that some day I was going to do a good job with it. So I let the domain names lapse.<\/p>\n
If someone else would like to take over the project, I'd be happy to hand you what I've got (and you're welcome to use the domain names I used)—but you might be better off starting from scratch, 'cause my database and display pages were never very good.<\/p>\n
Ideally, I think such a system would have a way for YB editors and publishers to sign in as themselves and edit their own data, so they could keep it up to date. (Alternatively, there could be a wiki where anyone could update info—though it would presumably have few users, so someone would probably have to take a moderator role to avoid vandalism and spam and other misuse.)<\/p>\n
Each YB series could have an info page: series title; editor; publisher; what volume they're currently reading for; where and when to send submissions. Plus “purchase” and “TOC” links for past volumes.<\/p>\n
Something like that, anyway. I do think it would be a valuable resource; I just have to reluctantly admit that I'm not the right person to run\/maintain it.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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