SFReader.com : Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Book Reviews & more      SFWatcher.com : Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Movie Review



  Home | Log In | Register | Calendar | Search | Help
   
SFReader Forums > Writing > Juicy Rumors and Other News > Where to buy Small Press stuff?  Forum Quick Jump
 
New Topic Post Reply Printable Version
[ << Previous Thread | Next Thread >> | Show Newest Post First ]

Bill Ward
Biblioholic



Email Address Not AvailablePersonal Homepage Not AvailablePrivate Messaging Not AvailableAIM Not AvailableICQ Not AvailableY! Not AvailableMSN Not Available
Date Joined Jul 2006
Total Posts : 1738
  		   Posted 11/2/2007 5:17 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Clarkesworld and Project Pulp are kaput, I believe shocklines is too, where do people buy small press mags and anthos anymore?

I know I can direct buy stuff, but the one stop shopping of a place like Clarkesworld is hard to beat. Any options out there? I don't even think amazon carries many of the smaller 'zines.

billwardwriter.com

Back to Top
 

J Erwine
Neophyte



Email Address Not AvailablePersonal Homepage Not AvailablePrivate Messaging Not AvailableAIM Not AvailableICQ Not AvailableY! Not AvailableMSN Not Available
Date Joined Sep 2007
Total Posts : 148
  		   Posted 11/2/2007 6:09 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.

Well, since I run The Genre Mall, I'll throw that one out there.  The site's a little unwieldy right now because I never expected to have so many publishers, but you can find a lot of the small presses there.

Mentioning it here gives me another reason to revamp the site...if I can ever find the time...

 

 
 
Back to Top
 

Thirdy Lopez
Sage



Email Address Not AvailablePersonal Homepage Not AvailablePrivate Messaging Not AvailableAIM Not AvailableICQ Not AvailableY! Not AvailableMSN Not Available
Date Joined Jul 2007
Total Posts : 1072
  		   Posted 11/2/2007 9:04 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Bill, has Shocklines closed its doors already?  cry   I thought they'd be open for a few more months.

Aurelio Rico Lopez III aka "Thirdy" has had fiction featured in COLD FLESH (Hellbound Books), THE BLACKEST DEATH I, II, and III (Black Death Books), STAR-SPANGLED ZOMBIE (Maniac Press), RAW MEAT (Sideshow Press), SHADOW BOX (Brimstone Press), TRIP THE LIGHT HORRIFIC (RAGE machine Books), DEAD MEN (AND WOMEN) WALKING (Bards and Sages), and THE BOOK OF SHADOWS VOL. I (Brimstone Press).  His poems have appeared in Mythic Delirium, Star*Line, Dark Animus, Goblin Fruit, Scifaikuest, Electric Velocipede, Sybil's Garage, The Horror Express, Down In the Cellar, and elsewhere.

Back to Top
 

Bill Ward
Biblioholic



Email Address Not AvailablePersonal Homepage Not AvailablePrivate Messaging Not AvailableAIM Not AvailableICQ Not AvailableY! Not AvailableMSN Not Available
Date Joined Jul 2006
Total Posts : 1738
  		   Posted 11/2/2007 9:22 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I don't really know Thridy, I just heard they were closing some time.

Genre Mall looks pretty good, thanks for the heads up J Erwine.

billwardwriter.com

Back to Top
 

Chaos, Perpetual
Me

Email Address Not AvailablePersonal Homepage Not AvailablePrivate Messaging Not AvailableAIM Not AvailableICQ Not AvailableY! Not AvailableMSN Not Available
Date Joined Dec 2006
Total Posts : 294
  		   Posted 11/2/2007 10:18 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
 I believe Shocklines is still processing the remaining pending orders and selling the remaining inventory, but that's about it.
 Genre Mall's pretty much it at this point(as far as I know), except for a few small online bookstores that don't seem to carry a large variety of titles.

-TBS

Back to Top
 

crystalwizard
Forum Moderator



Email Address Not AvailablePersonal Homepage Not AvailablePrivate Messaging Not AvailableAIM Not AvailableICQ Not AvailableY! Not AvailableMSN Not Available
Date Joined Nov 2006
Total Posts : 5183
  		   Posted 11/9/2007 1:44 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
There's Ed's store.

Never meddle in the affairs of a wizard unless you are soggy and hard to light!



Managing Editor of Flashing Swords

Visit my art gallery on art wanted
All my books in print

Back to Top
 

Bill Ward
Biblioholic



Email Address Not AvailablePersonal Homepage Not AvailablePrivate Messaging Not AvailableAIM Not AvailableICQ Not AvailableY! Not AvailableMSN Not Available
Date Joined Jul 2006
Total Posts : 1738
  		   Posted 11/9/2007 5:41 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Ed Knight?

billwardwriter.com

Back to Top
 

Daniel Ausema
Acolyte

Email Address Not AvailablePersonal Homepage Not AvailablePrivate Messaging Not AvailableAIM Not AvailableICQ Not AvailableY! Not AvailableMSN Not Available
Date Joined May 2007
Total Posts : 302
  		   Posted 11/9/2007 6:00 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Another is Spec House of Poetry ( spechouseofpoetry.com/store/ ). As you can guess, much of what they have is small press poetry, but they have a handful of fiction works as well as magazines that have both fiction and poetry. It's not a huge catalog at the moment, and there's some overlap with Genre Mall, but it's another one worth checking out.

Twigs and Brambles (my writing blog)

Back to Top
 

crystalwizard
Forum Moderator



Email Address Not AvailablePersonal Homepage Not AvailablePrivate Messaging Not AvailableAIM Not AvailableICQ Not AvailableY! Not AvailableMSN Not Available
Date Joined Nov 2006
Total Posts : 5183
  		   Posted 11/9/2007 7:00 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Bill Ward said...
Ed Knight?


Yes. He's trying to get his story going again. He's got several books in it now, including mine.

Never meddle in the affairs of a wizard unless you are soggy and hard to light!



Managing Editor of Flashing Swords

Visit my art gallery on art wanted
All my books in print

Back to Top
 

crystalwizard
Forum Moderator



Email Address Not AvailablePersonal Homepage Not AvailablePrivate Messaging Not AvailableAIM Not AvailableICQ Not AvailableY! Not AvailableMSN Not Available
Date Joined Nov 2006
Total Posts : 5183
  		   Posted 11/9/2007 7:01 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
J Erwine said...
Well, since I run The Genre Mall, I'll throw that one out there. The site's a little unwieldy right now because I never expected to have so many publishers, but you can find a lot of the small presses there.

Mentioning it here gives me another reason to revamp the site...if I can ever find the time...


Speaking of the mall, I looked all over the other day and can't find any way to add anything to it. I've got several books I wanted to toss at you.

Any help, here?
Back to Top
 

J Erwine
Neophyte



Email Address Not AvailablePersonal Homepage Not AvailablePrivate Messaging Not AvailableAIM Not AvailableICQ Not AvailableY! Not AvailableMSN Not Available
Date Joined Sep 2007
Total Posts : 148
  		   Posted 11/9/2007 8:43 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.

Send a blank e-mail to info at genremall dot com.  You'll get an auto-repsonse with all of the details, although it might end up in your spam filter, as a lot of auto-responses do.

 

 

 
 
Back to Top
 

crystalwizard
Forum Moderator



Email Address Not AvailablePersonal Homepage Not AvailablePrivate Messaging Not AvailableAIM Not AvailableICQ Not AvailableY! Not AvailableMSN Not Available
Date Joined Nov 2006
Total Posts : 5183
  		   Posted 11/9/2007 9:37 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
did that. got nothing back. not even in the bulk bin.

Never meddle in the affairs of a wizard unless you are soggy and hard to light!



Managing Editor of Flashing Swords

Visit my art gallery on art wanted
All my books in print

Back to Top
 

J Erwine
Neophyte



Email Address Not AvailablePersonal Homepage Not AvailablePrivate Messaging Not AvailableAIM Not AvailableICQ Not AvailableY! Not AvailableMSN Not Available
Date Joined Sep 2007
Total Posts : 148
  		   Posted 11/10/2007 12:09 AM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Send an e-mail to jerwine at genremall dot com and put "Genre Mall Request" in the subject so I don't miss it, and then I'll send you the information.
 
 
 
Back to Top
 

crystalwizard
Forum Moderator



Email Address Not AvailablePersonal Homepage Not AvailablePrivate Messaging Not AvailableAIM Not AvailableICQ Not AvailableY! Not AvailableMSN Not Available
Date Joined Nov 2006
Total Posts : 5183
  		   Posted 11/10/2007 12:47 AM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Sent. From my gmail account.

Never meddle in the affairs of a wizard unless you are soggy and hard to light!



Managing Editor of Flashing Swords

Visit my art gallery on art wanted
All my books in print

Back to Top
 

Edward Knight
Jack of all Trades and Master of None



Email Address Not AvailablePersonal Homepage Not AvailablePrivate Messaging Not AvailableAIM Not AvailableICQ Not AvailableY! Not AvailableMSN Not Available
Date Joined Jan 2004
Total Posts : 1050
  		   Posted 11/10/2007 10:12 AM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Yeah, I've been trying to stock small press books in our publisher site store front. We've been offering small presses a commission deal. They ship us books and we sell them for 20% commission on the cover price. We'll stock anybody's stuff as long as it's good, clean (at least relatively clean) reading with tasteful cover art.

So far we have our books (of course) Crystal Wizard Books, Silver Leaf Books, and Kitty Feather Press titles in stock. We can process any type of credit card payment as well as PayPal. I'd love to have more titles on the site. I don't know that I want to handle magazines, but small press anthos and novels are welcome. And if anybody wants to spread that word to other small publishers we'll be glad to talk with them if they are interested. Many don't want to work on a commission basis, but that's what I'm offering.

The small press titles we have is stock are really nice looking books and good reads.

Edward Knight
Editor
Journey Books Publishing
Order our newest anthology, Unparalleled Journeys II, now at:
http://www.journeybookspublishing.com

Back to Top
 

Jordan Lapp
Ebony & Ivory



Email Address Not AvailablePersonal Homepage Not AvailablePrivate Messaging Not AvailableAIM Not AvailableICQ Not AvailableY! Not AvailableMSN Not Available
Date Joined Sep 2006
Total Posts : 2951
  		   Posted 11/16/2007 3:06 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Why wouldn't they want to work on commision? Doesn't that benefit everyone?

Jordan Lapp
Managing Editor
Back to Top
 

Edward Knight
Jack of all Trades and Master of None



Email Address Not AvailablePersonal Homepage Not AvailablePrivate Messaging Not AvailableAIM Not AvailableICQ Not AvailableY! Not AvailableMSN Not Available
Date Joined Jan 2004
Total Posts : 1050
  		   Posted 11/16/2007 4:10 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I agree, but there are some who expect me to buy the books at discount and then resell. And I realize that is what a true bookstore would do. But bookstores generally buy from a distributor/wholesaler with an option to return unsold copies. Since most small presses have distribution problems, that isn't an option. No matter how a publisher of any size sells to a bookstore the cost of unsold books still comes back to the publisher. So, I'm not sure why some publishers avoid selling on commmission. Plus, by selling on commission I can give them back most of the cover price (80%). If they sold through a distributor or directly to bookstores (which seldom happens anymore) they'd do well to get 50% of the cover cost. I don't really make any money doing this. By the time I pay for shipping, materials, labor, credit card processing, etc that 20% might add a dollar to our store account, but I doubt it. Still, I want to help publishers move a few books if I can. We don't sell a great many, usually on a few a month that aren't our own titles. But it's another outlet for small press books and it really doesn't cost a publisher anything except the price of mailing me a few books to list.

Edward Knight
Editor
Journey Books Publishing
Order our newest anthology, Unparalleled Journeys II, now at:
http://www.journeybookspublishing.com

Back to Top
 
New Topic Post Reply Printable Version
 
Forum Information
Currently it is Tuesday, January 06, 2009 8:14 PM (GMT -5)
There are a total of 85,784 posts in 7,111 threads.
In the last 3 days there were 19 new threads and 68 reply posts. View Active Threads
Who's Online
This forum has 1334 registered members. Please welcome our newest member, esbrown.
14 Guest(s), 2 Registered Member(s) are currently online.  Details
T A Markitan, The Griot
Forum powered by dotNetBB v2.42EC SP2
dotNetBB © 2000-2009
(c) SFReader
Need Support? | Forum Help Manual