Dear Subscribers and other Friends of MYTHIC,
We’ve nearly done it. A full year of MYTHIC: A Quarterly Science Fiction &
Fantasy Magazine. As an editor and publisher of this great publication,
I’ve had to learn many new skills and I’ve spent hours reading through many
great submissions. Some of those stories made it through and have appeared in
the pages of our first three issues. We have a great selection of stories
waiting to be released in Issue #4 this coming September.
Each issue continues to be packed with original
sci-fi, fantasy, and horror short fiction and other nonfiction features such as
book reviews as well. We hope to expand to include interviews, essays, and more.
I want to thank each and every one of you for jumping on board and helping us get
started. You can’t know how grateful I am for the chance to bring these stories
to you each quarter. The only thing better would be able to keep doing it for
years to come.
But, producing a magazine in print with an
average of 10-12 stories or 40,000 to 50,000 words per issue is not free. We’ve
been trying to keep costs down, but not without some regrets that we could not
pay authors more for their work. I’m very grateful for their participation
despite our small venture’s limitations. Plus, there are costs for book
production, copyediting, cover art and so on.
This is where all of you, subscribers and
friends come into play. You have the power here. With that in mind, I want to
announce that we are planning to launch our first annual subscription drive for
MYTHIC. This drive will last from July
14, 2017 through September 14, 2017.
Subscriptions are used to directly fund MYTHIC.
The more subscribers we have the bigger our budget and the more that we can pay
the authors. As a writer myself, I know the importance of compensating my
colleagues for their entertaining stories. Higher
rates is a key goal of this drive. Ideally, I hope to pay authors a
professional rate of at least 6 cents
a word.
So what are our subscriber goals?
250
Subscribers – We will move from our current flat rate
payments to 3 cents per word
for original fiction. We can pay for a year at this rate.
500
Subscribers – We did
it! – We will pay 6 cents per
word for original fiction. We can pay for a year at this rate. We will
be able to add more nonfiction content and pay more for those features.
750
Subscribers – A
stretch goal! – We will increase author pay to 8 cents per word. We can pay a year at this rate. Word
count may be expanded.
1,000
Subscribers – Super
stretch goal! – We will pay 10 cents
per word for original fiction. We will include all sorts of features in
each regular issue of MYTHIC. Every fourth issue will be double-sized. Word
counts may be expanded.
So, there you have it. Ambitious goals? Yes.
But, I leave it in your hands, my friends.
Yearly subscriptions for U.S. subscribers are $40.00 plus free shipping
domestically.
Yearly subscriptions for International
subscribers are $60.00. (Partial
shipping costs included in additional price of subscriptions.)
Individual back issues of MYTHIC are available for purchase at the $9.99 cover price.
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