Post by calithena on Feb 9, 2013 23:04:33 GMT -6
Friends of Fight On! –
Here’s what’s up. It’s been a year since we got an issue out. There have been a variety of reasons for this, some more plausible than others, but it seems clear to me that for whatever reasons I don’t have it in me to grind out regular issues of a fanzine any more. So we need to tie things up.
For this reason, either #14 or #15 will be the last issue of Fight On! that I shepherd forward. I am currently planning for #14 to be the last issue, but in order to fit the whole rest of The Darkness Beneath into it, including Simon Bell’s “Snow Throne” expansion of level 8, Lee Barber, Welleran’s, and my level 9, Alex Schroeder’s level 13, and my level 15, it’s going to have to be oversized. It may be that I’ll get done with one or two of those DB segments, see a full and beautiful issue at 88 pages, and publish it, in which case we’ll do one more. Otherwise #14 will be the last.
During and after the completion of the last issues of Fight On!, we have two more projects that we have promised people we need to get done. The first, possibly of less interest here on the ODDD boards, but mentioned for the sake of full disclosure, is that my long-time creative collaborator Del and I were so impressed with the work of Alex Jennings, the winner of our fiction contest that led to Roll the Bones, that we decided to try to bring out a collection of his short stories as he gets his first novel ready for publication, to get his work into more people’s hands and help boost his profile. You can actually see the pre-release version of it on Amazon already:
www.amazon.com/gp/product/1478250712/sr=8-1/qid=1360464049/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&qid=1360464049&seller=&sr=8-1
Please don’t distribute that link though – we need to fix some minor glitches in the cover graphics and so forth before announcing ‘real’ publication this spring. If you would like to help with cover layout and/or conversion to kindle, we’d be very appreciative – get in touch if interested. Credit in the book and maybe even a token payment are available, since this is a 'side project'.
Second is the Book of Tables from our last contest, which is going to be amazing. I solicited permission from a lot of the authors of the best tables in Fight On! to go in with the great contest winners, and am going to pull a bunch of my private tables that I never got to putting in the mag, and I am going to chase down a few other people for some additional features. I am hoping to construct a volume from your contributions that rivals or surpasses the Ready Ref Sheets and CDD #4 in interest and utility. In any case it will be cool.
After these 3-4 projects are complete I am getting out of the fantasy publishing game for good, subject to the usual “who knows for sure what they will think or feel ten or twenty years down the line” and “if a good friend comes forward with a finished project and wants to use my old imprint to get it out there I would consider it” type of qualifications. But barring something really unexpected this will be it for Fight On! Publications.
I cannot properly express the gratitude I feel to everyone involved in this project. There are very few things, so far at least, I have done in my life that have had the joy and success that this fanzine has had; and since it has been, from beginning to end, a service project for our community, all of that joy and success really is a credit to you, our contributors. Thanks to the quality of your ideas, writing, and art we have reached tens of thousands of people through our ‘zine. The fact that I started work on Fight On! at an emotional low point in my life, wherein I seemed to myself to have nothing to offer anyone and nothing to use my modest talents to accomplish in life, makes it all the sweeter.
I can’t not mention Jeff and Gabor, so I won’t.
The artists.
All of you, really. If I start with the shout-outs now this will be a twenty page post. Plus, we're not done yet! Look at the tables of contents and the art indices if you want to know who gets the credit for all this.
What a great thing this has been. I’m ready to get it done. Since I came to clarity about wrapping things up I've been able to get on my computer and work on it every day again, and #14 is moving.
May a thousand campaigns blossom, and don’t be shy to hop from one to another, if your DM can handle it.
Fight On!
Calithena
Here’s what’s up. It’s been a year since we got an issue out. There have been a variety of reasons for this, some more plausible than others, but it seems clear to me that for whatever reasons I don’t have it in me to grind out regular issues of a fanzine any more. So we need to tie things up.
For this reason, either #14 or #15 will be the last issue of Fight On! that I shepherd forward. I am currently planning for #14 to be the last issue, but in order to fit the whole rest of The Darkness Beneath into it, including Simon Bell’s “Snow Throne” expansion of level 8, Lee Barber, Welleran’s, and my level 9, Alex Schroeder’s level 13, and my level 15, it’s going to have to be oversized. It may be that I’ll get done with one or two of those DB segments, see a full and beautiful issue at 88 pages, and publish it, in which case we’ll do one more. Otherwise #14 will be the last.
During and after the completion of the last issues of Fight On!, we have two more projects that we have promised people we need to get done. The first, possibly of less interest here on the ODDD boards, but mentioned for the sake of full disclosure, is that my long-time creative collaborator Del and I were so impressed with the work of Alex Jennings, the winner of our fiction contest that led to Roll the Bones, that we decided to try to bring out a collection of his short stories as he gets his first novel ready for publication, to get his work into more people’s hands and help boost his profile. You can actually see the pre-release version of it on Amazon already:
www.amazon.com/gp/product/1478250712/sr=8-1/qid=1360464049/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&qid=1360464049&seller=&sr=8-1
Please don’t distribute that link though – we need to fix some minor glitches in the cover graphics and so forth before announcing ‘real’ publication this spring. If you would like to help with cover layout and/or conversion to kindle, we’d be very appreciative – get in touch if interested. Credit in the book and maybe even a token payment are available, since this is a 'side project'.
Second is the Book of Tables from our last contest, which is going to be amazing. I solicited permission from a lot of the authors of the best tables in Fight On! to go in with the great contest winners, and am going to pull a bunch of my private tables that I never got to putting in the mag, and I am going to chase down a few other people for some additional features. I am hoping to construct a volume from your contributions that rivals or surpasses the Ready Ref Sheets and CDD #4 in interest and utility. In any case it will be cool.
After these 3-4 projects are complete I am getting out of the fantasy publishing game for good, subject to the usual “who knows for sure what they will think or feel ten or twenty years down the line” and “if a good friend comes forward with a finished project and wants to use my old imprint to get it out there I would consider it” type of qualifications. But barring something really unexpected this will be it for Fight On! Publications.
I cannot properly express the gratitude I feel to everyone involved in this project. There are very few things, so far at least, I have done in my life that have had the joy and success that this fanzine has had; and since it has been, from beginning to end, a service project for our community, all of that joy and success really is a credit to you, our contributors. Thanks to the quality of your ideas, writing, and art we have reached tens of thousands of people through our ‘zine. The fact that I started work on Fight On! at an emotional low point in my life, wherein I seemed to myself to have nothing to offer anyone and nothing to use my modest talents to accomplish in life, makes it all the sweeter.
I can’t not mention Jeff and Gabor, so I won’t.
The artists.
All of you, really. If I start with the shout-outs now this will be a twenty page post. Plus, we're not done yet! Look at the tables of contents and the art indices if you want to know who gets the credit for all this.
What a great thing this has been. I’m ready to get it done. Since I came to clarity about wrapping things up I've been able to get on my computer and work on it every day again, and #14 is moving.
May a thousand campaigns blossom, and don’t be shy to hop from one to another, if your DM can handle it.
Fight On!
Calithena
