Tuesday, 16 October 2007

start your own magazine


This article in Sunday's Age is interesting: if you can't find exactly the write magazine to sell to, start your own.

"...there aren't too many magazines that will publish your 4000-word opinion on William Shatner", the article notes. So Mia Timpano started Nerds Gone Wild!, a free mag that is reported to print 6000 copies each issue.

Also part of "Melbourne's indie magazine boom" are Mess + Noise, for indie bands and their fans, The Sex Mook (what's a mook?), Is/Not, and T-World.

There's a magazine for everything. "It's the equivalent of starting a rock band if you're into books," Lisa Dempster, publisher at Vignette Press, tells The Age.

"These days, the coolest kids don't play guitars: they start up magazines", the paper reports.

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1 comment:

sarah toa said...

Hi! I like this blog, speaking as someone who likes 'construction' tips on writing.
I can't seem to follow it, the tag is missing, so I'll chuck it in my history. Very useful, thankyou!
Sarah