Me-Zines

[out_there]

I’m thinking of printing up Not Homophobic and Like Sailing and Home Runs as little booklets (think of them as mini-zines for me). I was going to put them into one booklet, but then that booklet would be about 140 pages long (60 for LSHR and 80 for NH), which might be a bit long for a basic A4-bound document.

I was going to do it for me as a bit of a pride thing, as a physical example of what I can accomplish, but it occurred to me that if I’m going to the hassle of printing out pages and binding and photocopying, I might as well check if anyone else wants a copy.

It feels really, *really* self-promoting to be asking, but does anyone else want a copy? I would expect repayment of costs (no, I currently have no idea how much photocopying/binding will cost, but even if I can cover that, I certainly can’t afford to pay for international postage) but I wouldn’t be making a profit.

Basically, this is a post to see if anyone else would be interested. (If not, I’ll just go ahead and make mine.) Leave me a comment saying which story you’d want and the region I’d have to post it to. Then I can figure out costs, let you know, and you can decide if you definitely want it and the best way to repay me.

ETA: And in case you are curious, I'm planning on the most-basic-of-the-basic production values: Times New Roman, black and white, no images.

Comments

[in-the-bottle.livejournal.com]

Ooohhh!!! I've entertained thoughts as well, but the one or 2 I've made so far to send off to friends for their birthdays have been quite a bit of work, hence the thought of mass producing, especially with other people's fic, is rather daunting! Though if it's a team effort, it might turn out to be fun. :D

[scribewraith.livejournal.com]

Well I edited and put out (with a couple of other people) a monthly zine on the brisbane goth scene for about 2 years, so much sympathy on the production side

what worries me is the distribution - i'd be happy to do the main editting/managing and outsource some of the design work etc as long as we could get help with distribution - but then there are options like some of the POD presses (print-on-demand) like cafe press/lulu etc.

[in-the-bottle.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, distribution... Never had that problem before since it's just to that ONE person I was making it for. ;) Print on demand does sounds like the way to go, but that also kinda increases the production costs since you can't get bulk printing discounts that printers give out.

There's always the option of 'Only available in Australia', which could probably cut down the audience by... oh, 90%? LOL!