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Dungeoneer
Bearer of No Clever Titles
      
Date Joined Aug 2007
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| Posted 4/15/2008 8:55 PM (GMT -4) |   |
von Darkmoor said...ouch! that had to hurt, Kelly has a mean towel snap. ~~~ 'Kay, here's how it is: Flashing Swords Magazine (FSM from now on) has the Miko's logo of 2 combatants and Kelly as Managing Editor Flashing Swords Press (FSP) handles all books, has the Jackson crossed swords logo, and Jason as Managing Editor clear as a foaming mug of ale? well cheer up, cuz we go down smooth!
*shakes head and stands* What hit me?
Anyway, I came to and read your post, Jason. I gotta say, Miko's logo sounds really cool! But, where is it? I've been all over the website (I think) and thru issues 8+9 and don't see it. It must be hiding from me. Please, is there a link to where it's posted so I can have a look-see? | | Back to Top | | |
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crystalwizard
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| Posted 4/15/2008 1:55 PM (GMT -4) | | | | |
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Dungeoneer
Bearer of No Clever Titles
Date Joined Aug 2007
Total Posts : 138
| Posted 4/15/2008 7:03 AM (GMT -4) | |
crystalwizard said...
Yes, well, the problem is Tim, those characters are nameless, have no character sketches and nothing else. Just images at the moment. So they're 'signature' but pretty 2 dimensional. Hard to write a story about any of them without a lot of design yet.
Um, not to be a smart aleck or anything, but I thought that's what this thread was supposed to be about? Figuring out the details we all wanted the icon character(s) to represent?
So, you want a character sketch? K, it's gotta start somewhere, so how's this?
The guy with the crossed swords...he's Kromag the Mountain Man. He's not really a barbarian, he's an intellectual from a civilized kingdom, he went off to study some 'barbarian' society and decided he liked it. Now he's denounced his home kingdom and is tryingto prove himself worthy of the barbarian tribe, who probably don't really want him.
Uh, he cries at love ballads. He's got a growing dependency on the addictive jinkarra root. And is allergic to bee stings. What else is there about him? I don't know, but there must be more. There ya go, add details, change details, with all the authors on these forums we should be able to come up with something good inside a week.
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Hazimel
Jack of Shadows
Date Joined Oct 2006
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| Posted 4/15/2008 3:15 AM (GMT -4) | | crystalwizard said...erazmus said...
start a pod cast, I'd love to do podcasts in conjunction with the magazine. I'm not sure I'd want to try to do the entire magazine, but if some of the authors would like to record themselves reading their stories and let us host them on the FS website, that would be very cool. A full-blown podcast would also be cool, but I don't have the equipment for it. Anyone want to volunteer?
I am very seriously considering this. As I work on ideas for an audio ad for Return of the Sword, there may be a completely non-official sampler episode created. There are some quality podcasts that are published once a month, like Parsec award winner Variant Frequencies. So, I am thinking about a monthly series, with one story per episode, maybe a poem, and a bit of promotional jibber-jabber at the end. I am a huge fan of Escape Pod, so I at least have some idea what to shoot for as a listener, plus I have some gear and an endless supply of original music.
The only issue is that it would mean giving up one day per month to make the podcast, probably more. My real creative priority right now is working on my novels (WiP just broke 57k!), so I need to give it some more thought. I will make the ad and a test episode at any rate, just for the heck of it.
It would of course, be much easier if everyone had access to a good recording setup, but the worst thing we could do is to put out a cast with mediocre sound quality.
So there it is, that's what I've been chewing on.
Check out my story "Cold Snap" in Lords of Justice from Carnifex Press. It's an anthology of kick-ass super hero novellas.
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crystalwizard
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| Posted 4/14/2008 5:57 PM (GMT -4) | |
Request for information on being listed sent. Thanks Mike :) | | Back to Top | | |
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erazmus
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| Posted 4/14/2008 5:52 PM (GMT -4) | | | | |
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erazmus
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MichaelEhart
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Date Joined Jul 2005
Total Posts : 2315
| Posted 4/14/2008 5:10 PM (GMT -4) | | Noticed that today--- certainly a first step to bigger recogniction. Although, the first time Locus mentioned my name they spelled it wrong. I have said ever since that if I ever get a Locus cover I'll insist on them using the same incorrect spelling :)
Click here to buy my book!
The Servant of the Manthycore from DEP
Illustrated by Rachel Marks, with an introduction by Michael Moorcock
Read me in 2008!
"Without Napier" Every Day Fiction, April 9
"Night of Shadows, Night of Knives" Magic and Mechanica, Ricasso Press, Spring 2008
"To Destroy All Flesh" Return of the Sword, Flashing Swords Press, Spring 2008
"Only His Name" Every Day Fiction, March 30
"An Exorcism Straight, Hold the Elvis" They Are Not What They Seem, Janrae Frank, ed., TBA
"The First Trial of Jermaish the King" Flashing Swords #10, May 2008
Still in print!
"The Stars by Law Forbidden" Unparalleled Journeys II, Journey Books, 2007
"Six Zombies Doing That Mick Jagger Strut" Damned in Dixie, Tenoka Press, 2007
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nathan
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| Posted 4/14/2008 4:37 PM (GMT -4) | | Good to know, I just like to double check how I'm coming across.
I think it could be summed up in a pro con way. Pro (as in if it works on any level) = alright to fabulous results.
Con - the idea does nothing, moves nothing = no real damage.
You have a slot given over to a heroic fantasy story that would have went to another heroic fantasy story -- probably the 'weakest' one since you still have open original story slots.
So an unkown doesn't get a shot and a guy/gal known by FS editors gets a guarenteed sale because of a solicitation. That sucks ( a little, it's only 1 story) for the would be sale the hypothetical slush author would have gotten.
But, from the publications viewpoint it's neither here nor there. Even for nonplussed readers its really neither here nor there, it's still just 1 story.
Just thoughts--I'll bow out a bit so I don't seem like a chimp on a table screaming "my way" (in chimpaneze of course) and let the thought marinate a bit.
VIEW IMAGE"Writing the wet dreams of teenage boys" - Lindsey Llyod, Tangent Reviews
Tarantino himself has been forward and unapologetic about his influences. In a 1994 interview with Empire magazine, he said, "I steal from every single movie ever made. If people don't like that, then tough tills, don't go and see it, all right? I steal from everything. Great artists steal, they don't do homages." | | Back to Top | | |
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