Second Chances

John Joseph Adams and I have edited at least six books together. Is it more? I can’t remember. There was the Apocalypse Triptych from 2014. And the Dystopia Triptych from 2020. Both trilogies gathered dozens of our favorite authors and humans to tell three stories about the before, during, and after of some calamity. The Apocalypse Triptych was a huge success. My favorite thing about publishing that series was that these traditionally published authors with great careers made more from the short stories in those books than they usually made from places that paid by the word or in a lump sum. We earned back what we put into the series and paid out royalties! We are still paying royalties on that trilogy. Nothing makes me happier than artists getting paid. The Dystopia Triptych didn’t go so well, and it was entirely our fault (but maybe a little of Amazon’s as well). We set up a pre-order this time, and in order to do that you had to include an interior file, which is a bit weird in the…