Poll: Again and Again
The winner last time was The Naming by Alison Croggon. Now for a new poll, which should be visible on the right there. If you can’t see it the choices are: Honeycomb by Israel Del Rio Wicked Gentlemen by Ginn Hale Saga by Jeff Janoda The New Mars by John L. Manning, Jr. Feel free to leave a comment here with your vote if you can’t see the poll for some reason. One of those books will be what I read next. With that, I’m out! (Don’t click the read more, there isn’t any more after this!)
SBS Magazine: Changes and an Idea
Well, things are changing for how the magazine is going to work. Originally I was going to publish the thing from my home, using a printer and making little “booklet” style things. Then I found out that was going to be really hard without having to buy a bunch of things to make it work (such as a new printer just to make the printing process not take fourteen days to do).So, I came up with several other options on how to do things.I brought up the idea of doing a PDF with a print anthology at the end of the year: the members of YWO shot that down pretty quick (and I don’t blame them).Then I brought up the second idea. Since Lulu is a great source for printing books, I figured we could use that service as a source for printing, and the members seemed to like that idea.With that in mind, we’ve decided to use Lulu to print SBS as a sort of anthology/magazine. We’re shooting for biannual, perhaps quarterly if enough submissions come in. And that’s how it’s going to work (and it’ll work well I think). It’s not “technically” self-publishing, since Lulu is only the printer, not the actual publisher.For those of you who don’t know what SBS Magazine is (or Survival By Storytelling), it’s the magazine I’m editing along with my girlfriend for my website Young Writers Online (YWO). It’s going to feature a lot of young writing talent for fiction and poetry. If you’re interested in being involved, feel free to check out the website and the magazine guidelines here. Those guidelines will likely change a little to reflect the adjustment in how the magazine is being printed, but for the most part it’s correct. We’ve already accepted two short stories and a poem and hope to take in a lot of stuff over the next couple months (we’ll see). I also have an idea to make the magazine better, but I’m not sure how to approach it. I’ve thought of trying to get published authors involved in this, particularly folks who write short stories. It’d be interesting to have a featured author for each issue, someone who has been published before and would be willing to write a story for the magazine (for payment too, and that could be worked out). Anyone out there interested? It’s a magazine featuring young writers, if that’s any help. Anyway, I think that’s enough from me on this subject. Tell all your kids and teenagers!
Hate Mail, Sanders, and Other Nonsense
Simon Owen’s of Bloggasm recently emailed me about his article discussing the broader subject of email privacy.I don’t think I’ll go into discussing all aspects of it here, because what would be the point of linking to the article if I were going to do that? I will say that my personal opinion in regards to emails is this:I think out of respect all emails should be kept at least somewhat private. I don’t necessarily have an issue with posting the contents of an email provided you remove important information regarding the sender. I think, in most cases, it is wrong to post something with the author’s name on it, unless there is a very good reason to do so. In the case of hate mail I have different opinions. When you send hate mail I see that as sacrificing your right to privacy. You’ve now gone from sending a simple email to sending something with the intention to scare and or hurt. If someone makes the decision to post that email with your general contact information, well, then you should probably accept the consequences of your actions. Sending death threats to someone is not something to be taken lightly. If you’re going to send hatemail, expect that it’s going to bite you in the *ss.Anyway, check out that link. It’s really interesting. (Don’t click the read more, there isn’t any more after this!)