I’ve written before about how speculative magazines are struggling to survive right now because of the double punch of the Amazon ending its Kindle Newstand Services, which reduced subscriptions, and Twitter’s collapse which reduced outreach.

Though while not a fiction magazine, Locus Magazine has been a vital part of the SFFH publishing industry and they are struggle to reaching their fund raising goals this year. Locus is a magazine focused on publishing news in the genre with monthly issues that have interviews, essays, reviews, and spotlights on new and established writers. Last November they published my essay “Writing Short Stories in the Margins” in their special short fiction issue. They are like no other magazine in the genre and their absence would leave a large and gaping hole not easily, if ever, filled.

They are currently in the last days of their Indiegogo Campaign and there’s a lot of cool things up for grabs like signed books, art, and author chats. So if you can, please consider helping Locus out. It would not only be helping the magazine, but many, many writers and editors in the industry.