01/28/09 10:23 - 21ºF - ID#47550

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Last Wednesday, I stopped by the WNY Book Arts Collaborative for a demo of this... thing. It's called a Ludlow, and it involves a wall of drawers, molten lead and something called antimony. I was shown how to make the shiny new coolness pictured above.

Surrounded by some very hep cats in the mad scientist basement of this place, I was struck the relevance of what happens there. These people make print the old fashioned way by choice, an activity which I thought would seem quaint or eccentric. Handwriting means less and less now, as our choice of fonts becomes more important. These guys know why certain things in the written world are as they are, and how they got to be that way.

You've got to stop down there.

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01/10/09 01:33 - 22ºF - ID#47347

We Live

I can tell you this -- trying to get a magazine out during the holidays while buying a house and moving is... let's just call it challenging.

The latest GF - vol 2 - is ready to go, with three new writers no less. And so, the process of distribution and word-out-getting begins anew.

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11/28/08 11:20 - 40ºF - ID#46869

To Press With You!

Stopped by Queen City Imaging on Weds to drop off the latest issue. Nice folks up there in Ye Olde College Area -- another part of town that seems to be steadily improving.

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11/11/08 08:21 - 37ºF - ID#46640

1.2

Progress is clipping along on volume 2. A couple new authors have added to the melee of literary action, which is awesome. Joel's latest cover is 100% rad as well.

Now we once again come to discussions on how to market this baby. Getting the word out with a budget of roughly zero is a real challenge, but we've got some ideas percolating.

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10/03/08 09:36 - 49ºF - ID#45925

It continues.

Harvest time is here, so I guess we'd better get down to business on the 2nd issue of GF. We've had a few bites from people interested in contributing, so we;re hoping for a fatter issue this time around. We are also hoping for a phatter issue this time around. I mean, issue 1 was rad and all, but there's always room for improvement.

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08/27/08 10:08 - 67ºF - ID#45476

Questionable

I've started leaving "complimentary" copies of the magazine in waiting rooms. The barber. The dentist. Just bringing 'em in and leaving 'em. I'm a shadowy marketing ninja.

Oh, we're at Queen City Bookstore now, too. Emil is one cool dude, I'll tell you that.

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08/09/08 10:02 - 65ºF - ID#45286

Hmmm....

Well, that BRO article was posted, and we managed to convince Rust Belt Books that aren't an evil corporation so they'd carry our magazine. A week of steady progress, but I'd love to find new ways to get the word out. Maybe I'll rent a zeppelin....

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08/02/08 12:27 - 73ºF - ID#45224

BRO is on the case.

Sent out some mini-press-releases the other day in an attempt to egt the word out about GF. A fellow named Eli from Buffalo Rising contacted me in response, and we held a brief tete-a-tete over the phone today. I'm looking forward to the article, particulary seeing just what the heck I told him. Dang short-term memory!

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07/22/08 06:10 - 69ºF - ID#45106

Out There

I've been wondering how it would sound to say this: Greenfern is now available for purchase at Talking Leaves on Elmwood.

Cool, right? I dropped off a copy about a week ago and got the word today that they would put it on their shelves. Hoofed it over there right quick and dropped off a handful. It was all very official-seeming, what with the signatures and the publishing vocab and all.

The next step is marketing. Joel has graciously given permission to use his cover artwork for flyers, etc. so expect to see it around soon.