Title for a Science Fiction magazine?

There is always that 2001-S.O. reference...

Monolith...

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The name is somehow less important. It will matter more if you have a good graphic artist to create your cover and inside. I've been co-conspirator to a printed magazine and we stand out of the crowd with nice covers and interesting texts. Gardener Dozois liked our covers and we manage to publish 2 Nebula winners too attract more readers.
 
Harpo said:
Even though many of them resemble each other. I checked that list before suggesting The Sentinel.
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I'm fairly sure (dentist waiting room!) that there's an arty-farty literature and poetry magazine with that name already
 
dannymcg said:
I'm fairly sure (dentist waiting room!) that there's an arty-farty literature and poetry magazine with that name already
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Untrue! There is a Colorado region magazine by that name, and a Methodist mag., and an Oregon nursing board mag., and a Canadian Armed forces, and a B&O railroad historical mag., and a Sentinel Literary Quarterly magazine publishes poetry, fiction, drama, book reviews, essays and interviews and runs a regular open poetry which is your arty-farty literature and poetry magazine... and a few others.

So no confusion there! 'Bob Magazine' however... well... there are a few of those too :rolleyes:

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and a Sentinel Literary Quarterly magazine publishes poetry, fiction, drama, book reviews, essays and interviews and runs a regular open poetry which is your arty-farty literature and poetry magazine
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That's it yeah!
I knew I'd saw it somewhere, not quite the title I remembered
 
scarpelius said:
The name is somehow less important. It will matter more if you have a good graphic artist to create your cover and inside. I've been co-conspirator to a printed magazine and we stand out of the crowd with nice covers and interesting texts. Gardener Dozois liked our covers and we manage to publish 2 Nebula winners too attract more readers.
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Whilst I like pictures too, I keep on thinking of the cost. Don't get me wrong, I believe the artists should be paid for their creations, but it does mean that a reasonably guaranteed market should be there for such a magazine to at least break even. Any ideas on how to achieve this for a start-up magazine?
 
Another way of doing this is to scout graphic design forums, FB groups for people interested to collaborate. Obviously accomplished artist will not take the bait, but you might convince a rising talent to join for the money you can afford to pay.
If you have a literary club like we have, you can invite artists to showcase their work and then ask them if they will like to collaborate with your magazine.
 
Could a John Lewis type approach work?

Offer the artists a certain sum for every magazine sale, rather than a flat fee. Or have a small flat fee with a certain sum per sale. Something like that.
 
M. Robert Gibson said:
I'll see if I can find the thread
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Found him! @WillGisby

Illustrator looking for projects

Hello everyone, I’m looking for a few small projects to improve my art and add to my portfolio. The best way to do that is work on real projects for people and I thought some of you lovely folk might be able to help I’m not looking to charge for this and ideally I’d like to work on book covers...
www.sffchronicles.com www.sffchronicles.com
 
Serendipity said:
Whilst I like pictures too, I keep on thinking of the cost. Don't get me wrong, I believe the artists should be paid for their creations, but it does mean that a reasonably guaranteed market should be there for such a magazine to at least break even. Any ideas on how to achieve this for a start-up magazine?
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It costs more than you might think.
 
Glitch said:
It costs more than you might think.
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I already have some idea... I was lucky enough to get a cover done as personal favour on a reduced basis. When you think of the time, effort and resources spent to produce such artwork, the artists who want to make a living out of their art have very little choice but charge those amounts.

Of course this eats into the budget of any regular magazine. Which I suspect is a contributor to why writers get such low pay. Other than finding a way to almost guarantee selling sufficient copies to cover artist and writer costs, I don't see a way around this issue.
 
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