Posted in General, Writing/Publishing on Mar 27th, 2007 No Comments »
I’ve just finished reading about 40 stories submitted to All Possible Worlds. I don’t know the exact total, but I’ve now read over one million words worth of submissions. Some people don’t read that much in a lifetime and I’ve done it in about a six month time period.
Yesterday I caught myself saying that I [...]
Posted in Business Ideas, Financial, General, Web Design, Writing/Publishing on Mar 26th, 2007 No Comments »
I’ve been working on making some deals with pulp magazine publishers to get some stock into PulpSource. So far everyone I’ve chatted with (via email) has been pretty open to the idea of opening an online small press magazine (and eventually book) shop. I’ve even had more than one offer of ad exchanges [...]
Posted in Business Ideas, Financial, General, Music, Writing/Publishing on Mar 24th, 2007 No Comments »
In the past couple days I’ve read a huge amount of stories for All Possible Worlds. In fact, catch-up might not run too much beyond this submission period, which ends 4/15.
Speaking of 4/15, I’m going to have to do taxes pretty soon. It’ll be really ugly since my garage burnt down over the [...]
Posted in General, Music, Web Design, Writing/Publishing on Mar 21st, 2007 No Comments »
Today was a solid day of sampling. I recorded multisamples of two Roland synthesizers - the JD-990 and the D-550, using up about 8 gigabytes of pre-edit drive space. Since Freewavesamples.com already seems to be getting a good amount of traffic, it makes sense to pursue building it up.
While the sample trigger/recorder was running I [...]
Posted in General, Music, Programming/Software, Writing/Publishing on Mar 18th, 2007 No Comments »
I read a bunch of the submissions to APW today. If I read the insane amount that I read today I *might* actually be able to keep up with them. I also finished Robert Jordan’s The Path of Daggers (The Wheel of Time, Book today. I think I’m going to [...]
Posted in General, Web Design, Writing/Publishing on Mar 18th, 2007 No Comments »
It looks like APW is now live on the Genre Mall. I’ve created a couple of banners, nothing special, but at least I have them now.
I spent much of the day figuring out some things about Drupal. I know a heckuva lot more about the ecommerce module, custom views, and I can do some neat [...]
Posted in General, Marketing, Web Design, Writing/Publishing on Mar 17th, 2007 No Comments »
Today I spent a while looking for distributors for All Possible Worlds. I have a package going out to Ubiquity Distributors tomorrow, will be listed at the Genre Mall shortly, have an info request in to Disticor, have the magazine listed on Amazon now (through Suzanne’s merchant account), and have an info packet printed [...]
Posted in Employment, General, Writing/Publishing on Mar 16th, 2007 No Comments »
You know, this whole ‘trying to become autonomous’ thing is a heckuva lot of work.
I guess I could be spending much less time looking busy and collecting a paycheck at a company somewhere, but we all know how unfulfilling that is. Safety sucks.
Now that the reading period for APW is open I’ve received 22 [...]
Posted in Business Ideas, Marketing, Writing/Publishing on Mar 15th, 2007 No Comments »
When I sent out the “invitation to check out the first issue” email for APW I must have worded part of it strangely because a couple writers thought it was some sort of rejection letter — it must have been the opener thanking them for submitting work. It did get me a lot more traffic [...]
Posted in Marketing, Writing/Publishing on Mar 13th, 2007 No Comments »
I have the magazine back from the printers. It looks much better than I could have ever expected. I managed to get a couple sent out before the post office closed today - mainly to a few fiction review sites. Hopefully a review will show up and give me a boost. Tomorrow I work on [...]