Sunday, March 22, 2009

submissions for future issues

82 is ready to be mailed. 83 is essentially full, although I could use a little bit of filler art. 84, scheduled for publication in September of this year, is about 40% full. I'm wide open for submissions of poetry and art for that issue and all subsequent issues.

I have about 10 submissions on hand, most of which have passed the first reading. In fact, as soon as a deposit I am uploading to my PayPal account clears, I expect to accept two or three of them immediately. That will still leave plenty of room in the September issue.

Regrettably, I am still not in contact with my erstwhile layout person, Steve Cooper. I'm a little worried about him. Besides that, he has some filler art that was supposed to go in the issue 82. This includes some work by Guy Beining and by Randy Moore. Nothing I can do about that, but I'm sure Steve will surface again and either will resume his work with me or give me back the art work.

When you send art as electronic computer files, please either sign the work or put part of your name in the file name. This would prevent errors of the kind I made in issue 82, when I attributed two drawings by Scott Virtes to someone else. This was entirely my fault, not Scott's fault, but I would have been able to avoid the mistake if his name had appeared in the file name or on the work in question.

2 comments:

Richard H. Fay said...

Would you consider previously published art, art that has appeared on-line in blogs, or art that may appear in other publications in the future? I've got a few pieces of divider art I did for Abandoned Towers/Cyberwizard Productions of a fairly long and narrow nature that might work for Dreams and Nightmares, if you're looking for bottom-of-the-page fillers and the like. Even if the stuff I've posted in my blog won't work for you, I can also do similar originals just for D&N.

David Kopaska-Merkel said...

Richard

I would consider previously published art. I prefer things that were not published recently and/or were not widely distributed. I don't know how many people view abandoned towers. I also don't know how many people read your blog. the fewer, the better, from the point of view of reprinting recently published art.