A new Fantasy and Sci-fi Mag

commandant

A friend of mine has suggest that there is a lack of fantasty and Sci-fi mags that publish short stories and that are there for the general public. Therefore I have decided to write these questions.

1: Would people be interested in a mag that published short stories in the fantasy and sci-fi that were no greater than 3000 words (though if a story was good enough it could be published as a series) as well as reviews of books, films, games and other things?

2: Would people be willing to pay the €5 a issue that I think it would cost to publish.

It would be the ambition that this would become a monthy mag and that it would offer a new option to people who wanted to write short stories to get their work published.

I look foward to your replies.
Commandant

If anybody has anything they wish to say to me personally they can pm me and I will reply as soon as possible.

sceptre

Moving to the Sci-fi & fantasy board from Literature.

mcgovern

I think your main obstacle would be that you can get recent short story anthology's for ~€5, which are obviously going to contain a lot more material, and likely from more well known authors.

thebadmonkey

it'd be aimed at those who enjoy fantasy AND have pretensions of writing it

I'd be interested alright but itd be a very niche market!

InvisibleBadger

Maybe a blog/site would be a good way to do this. You could build up a community of writers/readers/sci-fi enthusiasts.
Best of luck!

OmeGar

Have you encountered Albedo One ?

http://www.albedo1.com/

I think you can get it from Forbidden Planet, for about 6 quid.

Figment

Most of the existing Mags are in financial trouble.
Have a read back through the archives on Warren Ellis as he has some great well thought out views on the industry. http://www.warrenellis.com/

Alan