Congratulations!

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Congratulations to _ri, who just won the MAK manga competition of Vienna - she gets a trip to Tokyo!





now how to convince her to do something for the PandaBuddha anthology, so I can say that there's an award-winning artist in there? XD

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PandaBuddha what. o_O

and thaaaaaanks!! shjsgahjkh

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PandaBuddha (http://www.pandabuddha.com/). :D The group of us who did a doujinshi some time back decided to go ahead and form a teeeeeeeny tiny self-publishing ... thing. And we're working on the first two books now - the Project Blue Rose I'm doing with rachelmanija and an anthology of original short stories that we're currently soliciting queries and submissions for. :D So ... if you think you've got time between now and March 1st-ish to do something ... *puppy-dog eyeballs* (It is, technically, paid, but since I am funding this my ownself, it'll be on the order of $10-20 plus a copy of the book itself. And it's a small print run - 50 or so copies - and we might reprint if it sells out.)


You well deserve it! (not that I've seen any of the other entries XD)

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Hmm well in pretty much the same time space I'll be working with/on two other anthologies (though one isn't certain), but I think I still may have time for something else, at least work-wise I've got nothing else to do but drawing. Lemme think about it, because I did resolve to spend a little more time on my comics. But it would be interesting for me to be involved with a US project.
If I join, I'll probably require the maximum amount of possible pages I can have though.

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Sure, think about it as much as you want. :) I've been telling people that we're looking for stories of 3-20 pages, so you can have up to that.

I can give a bit of leeway on deadlines - I'm telling people the end of March to allow some time for everyone to be late. I want this to be printed by A-Kon, which is the first weekend in June, and therefore the last time I can get the pages to the printer is the first weekend in May, so April's my panic-because-of-missed-deadline-for-everyone month. :D

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Oh yeah I remember the doujinshi from back then, I don't think I commented but I did think it was swell.

So there's no general 'topic' of the anthology, it can be about anything we want? Hm, it also depends whether I get a good enough idea... I could also do another 'no dialogue' thing, I could use less pages for that and I do like doing that sort of thing. Well, let's see~ :x
Do you plan to send/show your anthologies to big publishers?

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Yeah, no specific topic - if this takes off, themed anthologies are a possibility, but I need to not think about those things until I've got this thing done XD. It should be roughly a PG-13 or below (I'd have no problem with something the level of your hunting story, but not too much more graphic than that), since the primary audience for the stuff I sell at my table at cons is usually in the 12-16 age range. Other than that, no content restrictions. :)

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Do you plan to send/show your anthologies to big publishers?

I hadn't thought that far ahead, actually. I don't see why not heck, there's editors who read this LJ XD, but I don't have any serious plans beyond getting the thing published right now.

I and the other PB members have booted around the idea of putting an edition up on Lulu.com as a print-on-demand thing, but no firm decision yet, and that might be a separate negotiation with the contributers, I think, even though it probably won't sell a whole lot. :D

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* er, the Lulu.com thing was a separate idea from the big-publishers idea: jsut soemthign that occurred to me as I was writing this.

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I think I'll know more at the end of the month, at the moment I'm still a bit unclear about my other projects.
The question about showing to big publishers was just out of curiosity; it's just that in Germany when an independant anthology gets published, it tends to get quite some attention in magazines and such, but the country and scene is also much smaller than the US.

I just looked at that Lulu thing. I... still don't quite get how that works, but it is interesting. :O

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Yeah, the US is big enough that if we don't make a concerted effort to get it in front of people, it gets ignored. And often if you mail out indie stuff, it gets ignored anyway. :D

Lulu is basically Cafepress.com for books - it's a print-on-demand printer. You upload your book, free. If someone wants to buy it, then they pay the base cost plus whatever you have decided to add to the cost. Lulu.com then splits the amount that you've decided to add with you.