Forever Nocturne E-zine Forum Brain Blizzard Central

Since we don't have virtual post-its, these forums will have to do.

In response to Jinxie's test email, I just wanted to get a few ideas here in the meeting place.

-In addition to the novels we eventually publish, I would like to see (or rather, hear) Audio Books. Since LuLu (which I assume we'll be using at first) offers CDs, this seems viable. I know a few people with good recording voices. I think it would be great, because I don't anticpate other start up publishers venturing into that early on. I think if we can do quality recordings, it'll help set us appart.

-I'd like to stay away from poetry anthologies. Everybody and their duck puts them out.

-I think the four of us should hit the editorial circuit hard this summer, and try to get something published, just to add to our credentials. Even if it's local mags or newspapers, or other online zines. I've seen some sites advertising on the cafe for writers. I just want something more than "Writey McWriterton went to this high school and is an avid shoe wearer" as our credentials.

-Let's not discriminate at all in the genres we publish. I know between Nikki and myself we know a lot of people, so I'm sure you guys have creative friends, too. So if we get someone wanting to publish a children's picture book or a coffee table book of photography, bring it.

That's all for now. I'm sure I'll be back. =)

My SMTP settings for the fullmoonpress e-mail is still not working. GRRR!!  But this is what I was going to say in the e-mail:

I'm going to try to find an agent for Office Politics by summer.

I look at the group forum as our boardroom, and e-mail as a means of sending documents. Since I’m stuck “working for the man” for now, I can’t access my e-mail until I get home, but I can access the WC group from work. Just a thought.

We could call our published writers� group �Inner Circle� and make it invite only.  Just another thought (I got lots of �em. Hehe)

I think we should look at trying our hand at publishing books within the next two years. If we can scrape the money together, we can get a block of 10 ISBNs for around $250.

I think we should also create �stories� on the Forever Nocturne profile under each issue, and the story be basically a blurb about what�s in that issue and provide a link to the issue. However, advertising is freaking expensive on the WC. Woo-ha!! I just about passed out.

If you do 1000 clicks at $.50, we're looking at $500.

If you do $2.50/day, we're looking $17.50 a week. Still not sure if I understand the whole thing, so it oculd be more than that. Much better, but if you're on a shoestring budget like us...

And Brain Blizzard Central...LMFAO!!

Sorry, stepped out. =p

Also, when do we get our super cool and super long job descriptions? I need to put the gratuitous b**b shots on our staff page.

I don't think you have a wide enough camera lens for these b***s. LOL

Sorry about the unexpected vamoose--damn Windows thinks it needs to restart everytime I sneeze. Too much of a chore to log back in at 10:50 pm. hehe

Also--don't shoot me--I was thinking I don't so much like the format of the second page, even though I picked that template from Publisher. I may just play around with Word to make a template we can use. It just seems too busy and the text too small. I'd also like to make the Contents interactive (hyperlinks to the story). Should be relatively easy to do, especially if we're making this in Word and saving as a PDF.

Another thought I had (God, someone stop me! LOL):  If we have the Author Bio in the top left corner at the start of their work (Kind of like my graphics for  OP at the top left of the text. Again, I'll make a template It would just seem cleaner.

I also think each editor (that would be all o' us, in case you're confused) should have their own page for their "Editor's Notes" regarding their section. Er...have we ever divvied up the sections yet???  Here's my thought on that, thinking back to some of the things we've discussed doing before: Young Writers & Short Stories (Jinx); Chapter Fiction & ? (Siobhan); Poetry & Lyrics (Jesse); and Articles & Blogs (Tams).  JUST MY HUMBLE OPINION, DON'T SHOOT ME!  LOL

Hmmm... I would be more comfortable actually if I didn't have poetry. I don't mind taking lyrics under my wing at all (big surprise there, right?), but I'm very lenient with my views on what is decent when it comes to poetry. I react to how the piece made me feel. I'd rather handle something of the fiction arena, or the blogs. We'll save poetry for when Rachael comes on board. ; )

I like the "Editor's Notes" idea, but don't give Poetry to me.  I'm about as good at reviewing that as Jesse!  LOL  No, we haven't divvied up the sections yet.  I'll definitely take the Young Writers and Short Stories.  Perhaps Jesse can do Short Stories as well.  We could split up the genres or something.  Don't mind me.  It's late and I'm exhausted from teenage girl drama over the weekend.  =p  Sio, you can take the Poetry until Rach comes on board, since you have a little question mark there.  =)  Tams, do you want Articles and Blogs?  Blogs will only be written by staff, by the way.  At least, that's what I was thinking.  I figured Tams and Jesse are the master bloggers, so they can split that creation between them.

Jesse, that higher res heading is MUCH better!!!  Do you have the cover in higher res?  I need it.  Don't ask why.  =p

OK, sorry for the delay in getting my fat cheeks over here. I've been busy with life and kids and taxes and all that other rot we do.

As for divification or vivisection of odd magazine parts gimme. Just gimme. I don't care if it's poetry or shorts or leftover ramblings just gimme - and gimme parameters and I will read till my eyes cross. At this point - I'm just happy to work my a*s off for nothing. So you all tell me what you need - and I will be tickled to do it to the best of my ability.

Publication - agents. I am working on both so I agree - the more we can get ourselves as seperate entities out there - the more it can help the joint effort and vice versa.

Advertising. Since we are a free zine with no money  - I concur with word of mouth. I am happy to blog, post links and email ad nauseum. I wonder if approaching vertigo creations for the october issue might be plausible. Perhaps they would want to buy adspace. I've posted the link in my blog, and am also trying to figure out how to get it on my personal website. I've put it up here at WC - and I plan to post a blog about it - the Ezine at least monthly.

Have we thought about a newsletter - maybe monthly to keep the zine - in the view of people? Something simple...a one pager? Tam has MS publisher....lol.  

as for designing the next issue....I am more than happy to help. Like I said, I am happy to do what ever you need me to do. I just want to see this baby go as far as it will go.

Soooooo. which way do I go? (:

LOL - You're not nearly as shady as you'd like to be, Jinxie. I'll email over what you asked for.

As for the divvying... I think it may be a good idea. As you can see, we've already got a slew of submissions coming in. We might go crazy when we get bogged down with work, what with real life (that w***e) invading all the damn time. If no one else but Tammy wants to tackle poetry, I'll go ahead and do it. For the record though, I'd like short stories, or chaptered fiction or poetry/lyrics.

Also, we should think about divvying up the production duties. We don't want to be running around like chickens with our heads cut off. We'll all be taking editing duties, of course, but let's figure out the zine duties. I'm sure it's safe to say I'm the graphics department. =)

Stu thought so. Bua ha ha ha ha!