"Crime Fiction for the New Century will feature the best and most derelict, deranged, bareknuckled honest voices to bring about a renaissance of crime fiction. Currently, the predominant “mystery” magazines are two lame, staid, old fogey establishment publications: Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. Both are put out by the same publisher and stuck in a timewarp of 1950's schlock. They even have mystery crossword puzzles catering to nuns living sober lives in the cornbelt.
"Murdaland will not be kin to this kind of writing or experience."
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4 comments:
I've found that when people feel they have to go out of their way to bash the fifties, it is rarely a good sign.
Too bad they think the way to promote themselves is by bashing the competition...
My predicition: These people are going to fold within six months as so many others have before them. These people who start the new magazines don't seem to realize what it takes to get a print magazine out there. And as well instead of bashing another mag, they should merely be saying what they want. AHMM is a fine magazine. Some stories are very good. Others' okay. But as a whole it's something I like to read.
I like EQMM, and AHMM, too. I like it that whoever's behind this wants to bring some new energy into the field, but it takes more than energy to succeed. If they can get through several issues, they might have a chance to stick around.
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