tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671138066699282151.post8850974262072503998..comments2023-10-28T04:57:49.796-04:00Comments on BULL SPEC: Pardon the mess; Getting ready for pre-orders.montsamuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07591244606673064670noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671138066699282151.post-46246706180348665462009-12-14T11:26:26.342-05:002009-12-14T11:26:26.342-05:00Publishers Press has been AMAZING. My regional rep...Publishers Press has been AMAZING. My regional rep is Bryan Bullock, but, not knowing what region of the country you're in:<br /><br />http://www.pubpress.com/External_JSP/contact.jsp<br /><br />I had no idea how responsive and receptive to talking to a "little fish" they would be; so far, again, amazing. They haven't had a magazine (yet) which used Scribus for layout (http://www.scribus.net/) so I may have to fall back on Adobe/etc. though they have been pretty clear with guidelines/trim etc. and I'm hopeful.<br /><br />OK. Back to work. I have to do a much better job of research for my next interview than just showing up -- at a Jeff VanderMeer event I thumbed through a book, saw that he'd written a little short story about "The Secret Life of Jeff Gordon" and asked how it happened. Heh. Not only was it not "the" Jeff Gordon, everybody else in the room seemed to know all about the Secret Lives project in detail. /facepalm. Oh well. I can only get better than that, right? A near decade in sports journalism left me a little over-confident in how easy interviews can be: "So, coach, tell me about that call on 4th down." Writers and authors, it turns out not too surprisingly, have a whole heap more nuance to discover and digest before you can even find a decent question to ask.montsamuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07591244606673064670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671138066699282151.post-67242520476629291012009-12-14T10:01:59.839-05:002009-12-14T10:01:59.839-05:00Ah okay. I didn't realize that it had come tog...Ah okay. I didn't realize that it had come together so quickly. That's pretty impressive!<br /><br />I'd love to know more about Publishers Press, too; as the co-editor of a small SFF magazine myself, I've been looking for more than a year for a way to produce and distribute print editions at a reasonable price. $3 plus shipping is pretty damned good.<br /><br />Bart Leib<br />Editor, Crossed Genres<br />http://crossedgenres.comMetafrantichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12093927544849331391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671138066699282151.post-52675484497698096752009-12-14T09:10:16.399-05:002009-12-14T09:10:16.399-05:00Thanks for the chance to clarify, and the reminder...Thanks for the chance to clarify, and the reminder about the work we need to do in that area.<br /><br />First, some quick background: When we posted the guidelines in early November, we had no idea that we might be putting together a magazine this early -- we figured on at least a year. We were open for submissions for 10 days under those guidelines. But help came pouring in, and by early December we decided to make a go of it. For the one story we officially "signed" we went back and talked to the author; for the others currently in pre-signed acceptance status we're working on clear language specifying what we plan to do with the work.<br /><br />So: the submission guidelines need a serious update; we'll certainly get to those updates before we re-open for submissions in early February.montsamuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07591244606673064670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671138066699282151.post-15378424773843141192009-12-13T23:50:11.735-05:002009-12-13T23:50:11.735-05:00Could you clarify something for me? You're pla...Could you clarify something for me? You're planning a print edition and taking preorders, but your submission guidelines say nothing about print rights; they only mention electronic and audio rights (except for the nonexclusive anthology righs). What rights do you ask for that let you do the print editions?Metafrantichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12093927544849331391noreply@blogger.com