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So you want to become a publisher, uh?
May. 10th, 2003 12:53 amAm I still working on the zine? What zine?! OH you mean that zine...
MAS-Zine issue #3 Strappado de luxe.
Otherwise known as Pure Torture!!
1. Whhaaaaaaggggg!!!!
2. Don't give bonus point to authors who finish on time - at least don't automatically accept the story. Give them chocolate but be firm on having them do the rewrite.
3. If you as foreigner with an adequate education in the English Language can't understand the senctence it is probably grammatically wrong even if the writer is a native english speaker.
4. If you read something that makes you flash back to your Sesame Street lessons, ask the author if this was intended. If she doesn't know what you're talking about or if this happens more than once in a text then it is not supposed to be a stylistic element. Your author simply missed some essential Sesame Street Lessons in life.
5. Get an editor.
6. No, get two. Be grateful - they're the only ones standing between you and MADNESS.
Ask them their opinion before you accept a story.
7. Don't call your editions/issues something like Spring or Autumn. Call them #3 or #4.
By now you know why.
8. Learn to say "No, thank you. Please try again after a rewrite."
That's only nine words.
9. Don't lie about the reasons for rejection.
Although the page count is always a good excuse.
10. Don't get paranoid and start surfing to peoples' livejournals - you'll
find them bitching that it took you over a month to choose between 40 odd
stories for a 200 pages printed mag with illustrations. While you were doing the layout for a 500 pages mag on the side. And work full hours.
11. Don't bother with coordination mailing-lists. The only one coordinating something on them is yourself - everyone else has already gone to the No Email status.
12. Don't do two mags at the same time and work full hours. Get suspicious if you babble about the nice weather as if it's something special. Can it be you don't go outside anymore??
13. Realize how beneficial ignorance can be.
14. Get a thicker hide.
MAS-Zine issue #3 Strappado de luxe.
Otherwise known as Pure Torture!!
1. Whhaaaaaaggggg!!!!
2. Don't give bonus point to authors who finish on time - at least don't automatically accept the story. Give them chocolate but be firm on having them do the rewrite.
3. If you as foreigner with an adequate education in the English Language can't understand the senctence it is probably grammatically wrong even if the writer is a native english speaker.
4. If you read something that makes you flash back to your Sesame Street lessons, ask the author if this was intended. If she doesn't know what you're talking about or if this happens more than once in a text then it is not supposed to be a stylistic element. Your author simply missed some essential Sesame Street Lessons in life.
5. Get an editor.
6. No, get two. Be grateful - they're the only ones standing between you and MADNESS.
Ask them their opinion before you accept a story.
7. Don't call your editions/issues something like Spring or Autumn. Call them #3 or #4.
By now you know why.
8. Learn to say "No, thank you. Please try again after a rewrite."
That's only nine words.
9. Don't lie about the reasons for rejection.
Although the page count is always a good excuse.
10. Don't get paranoid and start surfing to peoples' livejournals - you'll
find them bitching that it took you over a month to choose between 40 odd
stories for a 200 pages printed mag with illustrations. While you were doing the layout for a 500 pages mag on the side. And work full hours.
11. Don't bother with coordination mailing-lists. The only one coordinating something on them is yourself - everyone else has already gone to the No Email status.
12. Don't do two mags at the same time and work full hours. Get suspicious if you babble about the nice weather as if it's something special. Can it be you don't go outside anymore??
13. Realize how beneficial ignorance can be.
14. Get a thicker hide.