A Note About the Upcoming Release
Posted by Darwin - 04/11/09 at 11:11 pmGreetings, everyone. Sorry for the lack of story this Monday, but there’s a valid reason for that.
I will be releasing Vol. 2, Iss. 1 shortly. This issue of the ‘Zine will feature 8 stories along with some non-fiction content that will take the total page count over 100. That means that the Lulu P.O.D. version will be, for all intents and purposes, a 6×9 Trade paperback anthology.
Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to release it in time for Halloween proper, even though it’s the “Halloween” issue. The reason is that I a) underestimated the time needed to lay it out and b) decided that the last two stories I added at the last minute deserved illustrations as much as any of the other stories.
Not that I really have the free-state money to buy the illustrations, but I guess I can go without lunch for a week or so or maybe sell off a paintball gun on Ebay or something to recoup the greenbacks before my wife divorces me.
Anyhow, as soon as the last bits of art come in, I’ll be uploading things to Lulu for the POD and downloadable PDF versions. There’ll be two PDF versions. One high-resolution that is the same as is used for the Lulu POD typesetting and one lower-resolution for the memory-space conscious folks. We’ll add Mobi and Kindle versions shortly thereafter, as well. The following Monday will see the start of releasing the stories to free web-only reading.
It looks really good in my desktop publishing software at this time. Jennifer Miller’s cover art was carefully adapted by Kevin Wasden into yet another killer cover. The stories are all great, each in their own way, and they’ll all now have their own art to go with them, and the art continues to amaze, even at the story illustration level.
Laterz.
Darwin
November 5th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
Ooo, I’m excited about this. *bounces*
Question: Is it just me? Even when logged in, I can’t “continue to read the stories online”–all I get is a blank page when I click the link. Is there a secret password or a handshake or something?
November 5th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
Glad to hear that you’re excited.
Maybe I’m doing something wrong. After some deliberation, I decided that I wanted the story pages to not be cached by search engines. The reason for that is that I feel it’s my responsibility to not just allow the authors’ stories to go out of control all over the internet.
However, if the log-on thing isn’t working, then I’ll need some other sort of solution. A story that can’t be read is useless for everyone.
November 5th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
Okay, setting the pages to “Private” was not what I wanted to do and, frankly, I can’t find a way to do what I want to do. Therefore, I’ve set everything back to the way it was before. All you have to do is click on a story link from the blog post or the Library and you’ll go straight to the story, logged-in or not.
Hope that helps!
November 6th, 2009 at 6:43 pm
I think this is the better way anyway. I found that if I had to login, I sometimes would just skip because I’m in too much of a hurry. Sad, but true.
And those of us who publish on the Internet understand that the work is ‘open’ to others. I’d rather have more readers than worry about what might happen. After all, being in print and not on the Internet at all certainly isn’t any better, given how many pirated print books are out there.