Who do they think we are?
Mount Zion Speculative Fiction Review is a phenomenon! We have submissions from all over the U.S., one or two from Canada, one from the U.K., and one from Israel. I just received an email telling me the author had heard of us from an email from the Maryland Writer’s Guild. Woot!
What continues to amaze me is how seriously people are taking us. It’s not like we’re paying a great rate (one dollar and a one copy). I think some people have resonated with our vision and others have been convinced of our legitimacy by our nice website (designed and written in notepad by yours truly). Heck if they could see our “office” well, they might just send their poems and stories elsewhere.
We had originally hoped to publish our first issue on October 1st. Hah, hah, hah, snort, yeah, hah, right! Between my publishing partner building his own house and my limited time, we are now hoping to have it ready for October in general. It’s doable, but just barely.
The biggest obstacle we face right now is printing. We are hoping to print and assemble all the copies ourselves. If we had any start-up money at all, we’d take the files to a printer and let them do it. However, I have only worked for about six months this year and Mike has been building his house, so we are trying to produce a great looking publication on the cheap. We both grew up in working poor/low middle class families so we know how to make do with what we have. Maybe the first issue will sell so wonderfully that we can have the second done professionally.
Anyway, off to InDesign (I hate InDesign, give me QuarkXpress any day)…
whoa! This sounds extraordinarly cool!
Can’t wait!