You know, 600$ for a 1000 word story actually sounds pretty good. If I was a native English speaker I would submit some stuff.
Edit: Brain fart, it's 60$ for 1000 words. I'd still do it.
Edit: Brain fart, it's 60$ for 1000 words. I'd still do it.
Then there are well known award-winnning gay authors such as David Gerrold.
And I've just finished reading last year's Hugo Award winning novel "The Three Body Problem" written by Cixin Liu, a Chinese SF author.
If anything, SF is the field of fiction which has the least problems with "diversity" - its readers are open-minded almost by definition!
It'd be nice to think we'd advanced far enough that females wouldn't feel it was necessary to use male pseudonyms, but it's "JK Rowling" not "Joanne Rowling" to avoid scaring off the boys.