A Thousand Faces #0

[frankbyrns]

A Thousand Faces, the Quarterly Journal of Superhuman Fiction, is finally here!

Using the 'Cory Doctorow Model', Issue #0 will be available simultaneously online (http://www.thousand-faces.com) and in print (http://www.lulu.com/thousand-faces).

Get in on the ground floor of the future of superhero fiction!

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[Bill Ward]

Cool mag, nice to see somebody hitting a different genre note and taking these kinds of stories seriously.

Any way to disuade you from starting with a zero rather than a one? From personal experience I've found that to be a pain in the postier when talking about a magazine I wrote for, with both 'layman' and the very people I was working with.

'Check the story in issue three to see what I'm talking about.'
'Do you mean issue three or the third issue, issue two.'
'Issue three, its the sequal to the piece in the first issue.'
'Issue one?'
'I meant zero, the first one.'
'Well, the magazine's been out for five issues now, its hard to remember.'
'Six issues actually, issue five was the sixth issue.'
'What do plan to do with all that lighter fluid?'

Trust me, you have to say everything twice, 'No, what I really meant is issue two, the third issue.' its a pain. And everytime you want to figure out how many issues you did, or how many years you've been doing it, you've got that annoying little bit of arithmatic to add in.

Besides, 'zero' denotes nothing, that never made sense to me, nobody and no thing is ever zero years old or doing something for the zeroth time or declaring today is day zero of the rest of their lives.

[crystalwizard]

starting with a 0 should be reserved for programing and buried in C or C++ functions. Please don't start a mag with 0 for the first issue. Not only what Bill says is going to be a problem, but do you really want your contributers to have to say 'hey, I have a story in issue #nothing!'

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[frankbyrns]

crystalwizard said...
starting with a 0 should be reserved for programing and buried in C or C++ functions. Please don't start a mag with 0 for the first issue. Not only what Bill says is going to be a problem, but do you really want your contributers to have to say 'hey, I have a story in issue #nothing!'


Well, it's a little too late now. /emoticons/turn.gif

The #0 idea came from comic books -- there's been a trend lately for a new book to put out a #0 issue as a kind of sampling for what's to come, and that was sort of the goal here. One of the markets we are aiming to get the magazine in is the comic book shops, so we thought we'd 'speak their language' on this. Then, hopefully, by the time #1 hits, we'll have worked out all of the kinks, etc, and have a solid piece of work.

A Thousand Faces (http://www.thousand-faces.com) -- The Quarterly Journal of Superhuman Fiction.

Super!!Stories!! (http://www.geocities.com/frank_byrns/superstories) -- putting the human in superhuman.

Requiem -- Available now at Amazon.com. (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1847282156/ref=sr_11_1/102-8118030-9407345?ie=UTF8)

[ScrewMoonshine]

Frank Byrns said...

The #0 idea came from comic books -- there's been a trend lately for a new book to put out a #0 issue as a kind of sampling for what's to come, and that was sort of the goal here. One of the markets we are aiming to get the magazine in is the comic book shops, so we thought we'd 'speak their language' on this.

Interesting. Let me know when I should speak to my retailer about this.

Robert Orme

Out now:
'On the Tree Top' in Ultraverse vol.3 #5 (www.ultraverse.us)
'The Scab, the Man, and the I.V.' in Mount Zion Speculative Fiction Review #3 (www.mountzionpress.com)

Coming soon:
'More Than One Way to Protect' in Lords of Justice (www.carnifexpress.net/blogs/)
'And Afterward' and 'Candy Lover' in Flashshot, April 30 and May 23 (www.gwthomas.org/subscribe.htm)