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Showing posts with label Ink Monkey. Show all posts
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02 June 2009
FINALLY!
22 April 2009
3 Weeks?? Yikes!
Hard to believe it's been three weeks since my last post on here, but I guess it has been. A lot has been happening in that time.
First of all, let's start with the Zine. It never occured to me that a large number of literary people had no idea what a Zine was until confusion popped up in conversation. For those of you who don't know, Zines are little home made things either 1/2 page size or 1/4 page size that are cut and pasted and glued together and then Xeroxed like mad to make copies. (Yes, that's the spazzy answer, but that's pretty much what they are.)
Anyway, a large following for Zines has cropped up in recent years and a number of people - myself included - actually like to collect them. They're generally filled with stories and poetry and essays and they're really creative and interesting.
With the confusion thing in mind, I decided that I needed to give the Zine a different name than "Ink Monkey" without going too far out there. Thus, I have chosen to title it "Ink Monkey Presents: Blots" - I figured little short snippets of writing needed a little small inky name.
Now that I said all of that, I can get onto info about Blots itself. I finished the first two copies, had 100 copies made, and then spent about five hours cutting, folding, stacking, etc... so that I could get them assembled. Remember, this is a pretty low budget operation, so I don't exactly have an intern I can push that job off on.
After all that was done, I got the package out for The Sampler, and I have the package ready to go for GORILLAmART. The really good news is that I have just a very small quantity left after I distribute the contributors copies.
*phew* Just talking about it makes me tired!
As for the magazine itself, I have finally made a few layout decisions that were holding me up. I should be able to finish the mag in just a couple hours time now, and have it ready to go to press at exactly the right moment.
The excitement is likely to kill me, but fear not. I shall wait until after issue 1 hits the stands to die of the shock. LOL!
If you want to contribute to future issues of Ink Monkey Mag or Blots, all the guidelines are on the website!
First of all, let's start with the Zine. It never occured to me that a large number of literary people had no idea what a Zine was until confusion popped up in conversation. For those of you who don't know, Zines are little home made things either 1/2 page size or 1/4 page size that are cut and pasted and glued together and then Xeroxed like mad to make copies. (Yes, that's the spazzy answer, but that's pretty much what they are.)
Anyway, a large following for Zines has cropped up in recent years and a number of people - myself included - actually like to collect them. They're generally filled with stories and poetry and essays and they're really creative and interesting.
With the confusion thing in mind, I decided that I needed to give the Zine a different name than "Ink Monkey" without going too far out there. Thus, I have chosen to title it "Ink Monkey Presents: Blots" - I figured little short snippets of writing needed a little small inky name.
Now that I said all of that, I can get onto info about Blots itself. I finished the first two copies, had 100 copies made, and then spent about five hours cutting, folding, stacking, etc... so that I could get them assembled. Remember, this is a pretty low budget operation, so I don't exactly have an intern I can push that job off on.
After all that was done, I got the package out for The Sampler, and I have the package ready to go for GORILLAmART. The really good news is that I have just a very small quantity left after I distribute the contributors copies.
*phew* Just talking about it makes me tired!
As for the magazine itself, I have finally made a few layout decisions that were holding me up. I should be able to finish the mag in just a couple hours time now, and have it ready to go to press at exactly the right moment.
The excitement is likely to kill me, but fear not. I shall wait until after issue 1 hits the stands to die of the shock. LOL!
If you want to contribute to future issues of Ink Monkey Mag or Blots, all the guidelines are on the website!
31 March 2009
May is fast approaching!
* Do you like to twitter? Well, Ink Monkey does, too! If you actively tweet, consider adding us to your friends list! http://www.twitter.com/inkmonkeymag
* The mag is pretty close to being full! That's good news because it means I can get down to work on the final layout! I still have a to do list as long as California (okay, not really, but it feels like it!), but I'm still confident that I'll have the first issue of the magazine out on time.
* I'm also finishing up with the first couple zine issues as well! I'm almost done with issue one, and I'm partway done with issue two. If that sounds weird to you, it's because I made an executive decision. I have three different distribution channels willing to try the zine, so I'm going to issue the first two issues simutaneously. This is a massive amount of work, so it will almost certainly never happen again.
The good news, though, is that I am looking for submissions for it right now. Yes, I know that I'm always looking for submissions, but this is time sensitive, so I'm looking for submissions that will run sooner rather than later - especially flash fiction of 100-ish words. If you have any, please help!
11 March 2009
What Is Ink Monkey?
Greetings!
If you're a writer, you will truely understand what I'm about to say next. Getting published is sometimes harder than finding needles in haystacks. Especially if you're a genre writer.
I'll admit it. It didn't take too many rejections and "literary fiction only, no genre" notes for me to get fed up with most of what was out there. Is there really anything that wrong with the occational mystery? Can't sci-fi and romance coexist?
So, I toyed with the idea for quite a while. The final straw came when I showed a rejection letter to a published author friend of mine who started poking fun at the gramatical errors in the note. You know, I'll totally admit to not being perfect. I'll even admit that you're going to find the occational spelling mistake, typo or wrongly placed comma on here in the blog. But in the rejection letter? Not a chance.
Businesses need to be run professionally, and that is what Ink Monkey is - a business dedicated to the advancement of the writer.
I can accept the fact that we're not all going to be the next John Grisham. I'll settle for the next Eric Wilson or Jeff Markowitz. Because of that, I started this magazine will help all the other small time writers out there realize their dreams as well.
There it is, the dream and realization of Ink Monkey. In case you couldn't already tell, I'm doing this with a next to nothing budget. For now, Ink Monkey will be published twice a year for $10 an issue.
Watch this space for more updates.
~Mandi M. Lynch, editor
Ink Monkey Magazine
If you're a writer, you will truely understand what I'm about to say next. Getting published is sometimes harder than finding needles in haystacks. Especially if you're a genre writer.
I'll admit it. It didn't take too many rejections and "literary fiction only, no genre" notes for me to get fed up with most of what was out there. Is there really anything that wrong with the occational mystery? Can't sci-fi and romance coexist?
So, I toyed with the idea for quite a while. The final straw came when I showed a rejection letter to a published author friend of mine who started poking fun at the gramatical errors in the note. You know, I'll totally admit to not being perfect. I'll even admit that you're going to find the occational spelling mistake, typo or wrongly placed comma on here in the blog. But in the rejection letter? Not a chance.
Businesses need to be run professionally, and that is what Ink Monkey is - a business dedicated to the advancement of the writer.
I can accept the fact that we're not all going to be the next John Grisham. I'll settle for the next Eric Wilson or Jeff Markowitz. Because of that, I started this magazine will help all the other small time writers out there realize their dreams as well.
There it is, the dream and realization of Ink Monkey. In case you couldn't already tell, I'm doing this with a next to nothing budget. For now, Ink Monkey will be published twice a year for $10 an issue.
Watch this space for more updates.
~Mandi M. Lynch, editor
Ink Monkey Magazine
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