Cassie Alexander writing on Jay Lake’s “Tub of Improvement.” This is the best explanation to the “hey, I sold 1/2/3 stories and now nothing for months/years/forever, what gives?”-problem I’ve ever read.
Jay Lake’s Tub (and on being a newer writer)
And, just in case you get too optimistic about everything from that, here’s a look at what happens when you start melting the 1 400 000 000 000 tonnes of carbon held frozen in Arctic permafrost: