Feeling very distracted this morning, but I still (finally) managed to set up a Fourthwall shop. Folks can now order physical zines! (I think. Haven't finished kicking the tires yet.)

I swung by a few Little Free Libraries and left some zines.

I still have not gotten shit sufficiently together to set up online sales for physical zines, but you can get yourself pay-what-you-want downloads of a minizine how-to, microfiction, and zine template.

Sigh. Right after releasing a zine that mentions SFWA as a good source of information for writers, the organization embraced LLM works for the Nebula Awards. They quickly backtracked, but still... SFWA does have some good resources online, but at this point maybe think twice about joining.

New minizine: "How to Submit Your Short Fiction to Magazines and Anthologies." Currently available as a pay-what-you-want digital download (Letter and A4 sizes). scopecreeppress.itch.io/how-to-submi...

Trying to guess if the Calibri hate is down to the word "Roman" or accessibility. Calibri hadn't been on my radar as particularly accessible, beyond being a sans serif font (so, like, presumptively better than TNR, but not, say, a Comic Sans).

Folks, is Calibri woke????

The book community is working together to fund an African small press to translate two novels. #BookSky We need to close this. Very grateful for your help. Still needed: $250 (USD) Last donation/purchase: 11:00a EST / 18:00 SAST ($5) ko-fi.com/africantrans...

If anybody needs a Microsoft Word template for minizines printed on A4 paper, I've got you covered. (This is modified from @jasonkenney.bsky.social's Letter sized template.)

And it is slightly ironic to promote itch at the same time as working on a FOSS itch replacement. (Okay, that's a bit of a simplification of conjured.ink. But still.)

First minizine's been on the website as a free download, and is now also on itch. Enjoy!

Went to the Philly Zine Fest. Bought some stuff, added some zines to the freebie bin, gave some copies to a couple zine libraries. Great day to be walking around the city.

Thank you so much for 1k! To celebrate, we're hosting a creation share! All creations count, but we ask for NO AI, and that all NSFW be labeled correctly. We will repost all creations today which fit the below specifications! Thank you for putting your trust in us! We look forward to serving you.

Exciting news, everyone! As Conjured Ink nears its first beta, we'd like to share with you our roadmap of updates for the next two quarters. These quality of life and system changes will help pave the way for what we hope to become: a home for your incredible works! Thank you!

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

Thank you everyone who's contributed! We're now over 50% to our monthly funding goal, which will allow us to be a pretty reliably sustainable volunteer-run organization that is still able to spend money on e.g. legal, hardware, hosting, etc, costs as we need in order to fulfill our mission!

Please consider this post the equivalent of a '90s era website's "Under Construction" graphic.