Tuesday: sit up frantically re-sizing, printing, re-scanning, re-sizing, numbering pages, tearing hair out and shedding a quiet tear or two when I realize I've put it together all wrong AGAIN, (I'm sure there's an easy way to do it but am fatally lacking in knowledge of layout, publishing software, etc) before finally emailing the lot off to darling RoMo to turn into PDFs and burn to a disk.
Wednesday:
- After work pick up disk from RoMo in her groovy Soho lair.
- Exchange gossip about bloggers.
- Meet Bad Sarah and get sloshed on red wine.
- Realise I've left out ____'s piece and ______'s piece.
- Sit up til 2.00 am re-scanning, re-numbering, re-sizing etc.
Thursday:
- Get up at 6.00 am. Remember that today's the day of our trip to the Museum of Childhood. Shepherd 30 highly excited & giddy 5 year olds & 7 parents around a Museum filled with a) toys and b) other schoolgroups, on 4 hours sleep and with a mild hangover.
- Get back to school.
- After school finishes, run games club.
- After games club, run up & down Bethnal Green High Road looking for an internet cafe.
- Scan new disk.
- Go to Rough Trade for last workshop.
As it turns out, Rough Trade do not need a disk as they are not doing the printing (as had assumed by the request to bring fanzine on PDF files on a disk). They are only stocking it once it's been printed.
Still, without this deadline I know I'd never have finished it. They did like it (or at least, were nice and positive about it.)
Frances (Plan B editor) said she liked the idea that something which started from people using new media (ie blogs) has been turned around to create an old style media format (ie a fanzine.)
She liked my idea that the editorship could change each issue (hint hint - yes I am a lazy arse, but it would be great if different people would take it on each time... would give it a different flavour each time... would also be a good way to increase distribution & spread the word...)
And the good news is, that Plan B, which is real proper music monthly, will run a feature on fanzines and this fanzine workshop in the future, so our little fanzine will be mentioned, and featured on their website. I'm proud of us, hope you are too.
Now, anybody know a good cheap printers?
8 comments:
Well done everyone!! Annie - you worked very hard on that. Seriously everyone, if you knew how stressed she was getting that done. You did good. I look forward to seeing it online.
Online?
Is the Magic G fanzine going online? People should buy this so that Annie gets some beer money to treat her new boyfriend.
All work is honourable, so well done Annie! Hope it's a good seller, but what else can be done publicity wise?
PS - Re: Printers. I can't recommend anyone but the east end is known for having the most competitive prices in London. Would it be worth picking 3 local printing firms from say, the Yellow Pages and then bargaining with them for the best price? How many copies are you planning for the first issue?
maybe not online sorry but featured on their website is what I meant... I think that is happening?
Exciting! Let us know when it's ready and I'll bully everyone i know into buying it.
I don't know yet Istvanski, I guess I'll see how much it costs to print first. I don't envisage a huge print run...
One of the suggestions was that you could put pdfs online and people could download it for free.
(Everett True said it was better to sell them directly to people at gigs than leave them in a shop, as people tend not to buy them from shops, so I have to get the courage up to go and stand there and try to hassle people into buying them...)
Well done you - you worked so hard on that but you are crazy - you should have called me - I could have added and burned you another copy! xx
Maybe it could be a subscription thing - download it for £1.50?
ah, thank you - I was ashamed by that point of my uselessness. I think charging for downloads would work after maybe a couple more issues, I don't think people would pay to download an unknown quantity...
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