The best thing you can do right now is research the situation and wait for the economy to get a little better. There's still a market for magazines, and even one for SF/F/H magazines. The problem is that most of them still think promotion consists of sending 90 percent of their print run to Borders (where they're either damaged by coffeeshop customers or stolen by employees) and sending the editor to conventions to preen for Locus. I honestly think that the genre print magazine could make a serious rebound, but only if it's sold to someone other than the Cat Piss Men who go ballistic if a story features a female character who isn't cheesecake.
I've been looking at that for a while. It's a great idea, don't get me wrong, but it honestly works best for publications where you're going to be giving away copies for promotion. Right now is not the best time to be starting a magazine intended for sale in newsstands, considering how the whole distribution system is going straight back to hell.
That would be way beyond the scale of the sort of thing I'd want to do, luckily. :) I'd be more interested in the zine level, or the self-pubbed comic level where I'd sell online or buy a few copies myself to take to cons. (Mind you, running the numbers I'm still better off with the printer I'm using right now for things longer then 24/32 pages, and I'd have perfect binding to boot.)
I think what I really just want to do is play with layout and not mess about with any of this "content" stuff. XD
Then don't let me get in the way. You're absolutely right about it being a good way to play, especially considering the print quality that's being promised.
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I think what I really just want to do is play with layout and not mess about with any of this "content" stuff. XD
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