I've been plotting this (pun intended) for a long time, but life keeps getting in the way.
However, this time I mean it. Really. Coming soon to a Daily Kos near you....
Friday Night Fiction
a fiction magazine disguised as a diary
Each week, FNF will publish one or two works of short fiction accompanied, when possible, by illustrations. Some of these will be original works. Some will be reprints. Because the format of diaries imposes a bit of an issue when it comes to layout and length of material, it's likely that FNF will be looking primarily for poems and short stories, with a maximum word length around 3,000 words. I'd like to squeeze in more than one work each week, so shorter works will have an advantage. I'll be publishing complete submission guidelines Real Soon Now.
I'd also like to have illustrations. In each "issue" I'd like to have one front-page image, which need not be connected to the works published that week and, when time allows, additional images to illustrate works. While FNF will act as a place to publish these works, the rights to your original texts and illustrations remain yours, and you are free to peddle, promote, and modify them elsewhere as you like.
Because I'm a big believer in paying the artist, it's my intent that both authors and illustrators get something in the form of payment. However, since at the moment I have no source for this other than my own moth-eaten pockets, understand that the amount you are paid will best be termed "token." Somewhere north of pocket change, but unlikely to pay for a meal that's not on the "dollar menu."
And... that's about it. Fiction. In this space. On Friday nights. Submission guidelines coming soon. Folding money of very small denomination as payment.
Questions? Oh, and if anyone has ideas for how to structure this thing so as to get around the limitations of shoving text into a single diary, bring 'em. Thanks.