Thursday, April 7, 2016

These posts are placeholders as I work out the ideas for X-over a crossover oriented fanfic 'zine


Something written on intentionally crappy paper and only in black and white but with stories, artwork, and articles and the like?


Edit: At the moment after doing some research, this is feeling pretty viable, already got a great quote for the print cost of a 64 page zine, sent off some variable questions.

My thoughts are a patreon where a 2 dollar patron would get a digital copy whereas one who is a 5-7ish (still pricing printing and shipping costs) would get the dead tree and pdf version. These costs would basically JUST cover the printing and shipping cost. (Maybe figure out something else to tack on for people who wanna do more: custom stickers or the like.)

Any overprints could then be taken to cons, sold for people looking for back issues in a web store, just dropped off in small book stores to be sold by them, and so on.

Those are my thoughts right now on it, they'll evolve as more research is done.

I kinda figure i would need a staff of about four people to do the editing and one or two for layout. I'd prefer to work with people close by but really this could all be done by people around the world if they're really dedicated and i would basically go to the printer, package for ship, and then drop off at the post office.


Poetry

Puzzles

Word finds

Runic Sudoku

Mazes

Drabbles

Articles about crossover fanfiction

Single chapter stories

Serials of stories (preferably not posted online yet or we have rights to the chapter for a month or so before it gets posted online just to make it more likely to get the stories)

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"There is no one who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it, simply because it is pain..."



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