What Happened to Ruthie's Club?

[gingerwoman]

Anybody know? It appears to be gone.

[Medievalist]

Ruthie died, and Neil Anthony and Dulcie and Fr. Nat kept it going as long as possible, but the costs went up, and the subs went down, and they all had real life jobs. They wanted to pay writers and artists.

[JanDarby]

I got a note from them before they shut down, telling contributors to the site that they were going on hiatus, hoping to reopen, but it didn't seem likely.

It's a real shame. They were lovely to work with, always paid on time, took the editing seriously and always offered a bit of praise to the writers (and presumably the visual artists too).

[gingerwoman]

The gave me my first paying gig and were lovely. I didn't get the letter because I hadn't subbed to them in a long time. They paid a decent solid little wack of money for short stories. So sad.

[Medievalist]

It was a great bunch of people, it really was.