It’s been two months since I started this magazine. In that time, we’ve posted four excellent pieces of short fiction and pointed you towards some interesting artists. We’ve also tried to encourage some interesting works of new art, and I hope that will continue. I’ve been busy trying to publicize the quilt challenge, and I hope I get a lot of takers on that.
Since I’ve started, I’ve been working on defining my vision for this page better. You may notice that the wording in the sidebar has changed. (There is also a new dedication page that describes my goals in this project more.) My goal is that same space as one of the better art shows at a science fiction convention — ideas, artwork, discussion and arguments sparking all around. And of course, the artwork is grounded in the stories and books that created this literary genre. Often, it seems that fantastic artwork consists of illustrations, or even cover art created only to sell a book. But there’s a lot more than that… you can find visions of other worlds in there, stories told without words. Fiber artists, sculpters, and costume artists bring textured fantasy into the world around us for us to interact with.
In the two months since this has begun, there have been 17 entries. We’re getting new registered users regularly. In September, we averaged 250 page views a day and now we’re up to 450. We’ve been linked to from Locus Magazine among others. We have a Facebook page — we’d love to have more people link to it. I’m particularly pleased that we’ve maintained a regular schedule.
We’ll be adding ads and merchandise soon — hopefully, for cool things that you will be happy to discover so it adds more than just some income to pay the writers (did I just say ‘just?’) We have more publicity to go — now that we’ve got enough content to show what we’ve got we’re going to kick off a marketing campaign. I’ll be pleased if you let me know when/where you see our name. And, of course, we’re working on more art and stories. Let me know of anything you’d like to see here.
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