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Post by robertmammone on Jun 17, 2010 0:37:16 GMT
Like I said, it's a bit different... There's one writer named here who doesn't know he's in the 'zine yet, so I hope he wants to be. Beautiful, absolutely beautiful. As David says, redolent of atmosphere and something very, very dark. Wonderful!
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Post by corpsecandle on Jun 19, 2010 19:57:25 GMT
This is a milestone for me as a writer and a huge moment of pride for my story to be the cover picture for F.C 6. I know it sounds over dramatic but I can't wait to get a copy so that I can frame it,actuley I'll order a few copies. Thank you Rog this has really picked me up after the England result
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jun 19, 2010 23:48:33 GMT
Fantastic. The thrill never lessens I believe. And it's a top class cover.
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Post by Calenture on Jun 20, 2010 12:24:55 GMT
Time for a quick post. Things have been a bit busy the last few days. The College Print was tied up all week with orders for an Arts and Media show that opened on Friday night (seemed a weird time to open it, but that's Cornwall College for you...) Anyway, I'll deliver FC for printing Monday. Yesterday was a visit to Truro for (of all things) goldfish... as Bec' had got some, so of course Rachel had to have some too. Really they're very sweet little things with bug-eyes - Rachel's spend their time zooming under a little rainbow at the bottom of the tank. Yesterday we had visitors so I finally got to bed at 4:00 a.m. Possibly boring DTP details: I'd run off a proof of FC 6. It actually works out at 84 pages, plus covers. The number of pages has to be a multiple of four (four page sides to every folded sheet of A4) - otherwise you end up with blank pages when it's printed. Font is Times New Roman 10.0 pt - which is the smallest possible without eyestrain. I've taken notice of Demonik's and Coral's comment of FC 5 that the varying fonts for the titles and author names weren't a good idea. They were right, I was wrong to mess with things. This time it's back to 'A Charming Font' or the similar 'Creepy Girl' for headings - both these fonts originally found and used by Steve Goodwin. They definitely contributed strongly to FC's look and feel. The wide border for the cover, apart from looking pretty good, I think, will also mean that the pages can be trimmed without fear of losing text (that was a problem with FC 5), and if I need to print any at home will hopefully not cause problems with ink stains and trashed covers everywhere, which often happened when attempting those borderless covers of previous issues. No more of that, please god. Anyway, can't think of anything else to bore you with, so I'd better start clearing up the debris that's accumulated.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jun 23, 2010 21:14:10 GMT
Rog, I want to promote FC as much as possible and TTMC. Do you have any preferred blurb - I need to say where you can get the magazines - Is it better as an address or ebay, paypal and all that stuff?
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Post by Calenture on Jun 26, 2010 10:54:50 GMT
Rog, I want to promote FC as much as possible and TTMC. Do you have any preferred blurb - I need to say where you can get the magazines - Is it better as an address or ebay, paypal and all that stuff? Hi Craig, According to the FC board, I've been logged in twice - as 'Calenture' and 'calenture'. But in fact I couldn't log in at all earlier to post. That's why you'll have just received an email explaining that. After trying two other browsers, Firefox finally worked and let me post. I hadn't actually worked out a blurb yet, but obviously it's worth naming the authors. David A Riley's is obviously the best known name (I counted about 65 previous publications of his work). All the contributors have been published before except Penni McLaren Walker - but she's established a name as a singer-songwriter. David's argument about the incestuous nature of the small press has actually been backed up by the 'meet the authors' pages that I put in FC 6. Although it's true that editors have always had their own favourite authors, the inevitably smaller circulation of small press does make it more of an old pals network. Still, we just have to make the best of it. I do intend setting up a Paypal link for FC 6, but am still waiting to collect the magazines. I'll probably get them Monday or Tuesday. Until then, I'll be a total bag of nerves. Contributors will naturally get their complimentary copies. In the meantime Coral has posted you some more copies of TTMC 3 (let's hope these reach you) and I've been working on an illustration for TTMC 4. The post seems to be crap at the moment. A letter from Wales took 9 days to reach us recently. I'll be using the usual printed address labels. If ANYONE has changed address recently please PM or email me: rogpileAThotmail.co.uk Des, I'm still waiting on the package you said you'd be forwarding to me. But today's post has yet to arrive (usually at midday). I might have to get in touch with Proboards about the login problem with Gogle Chrome and Internet Explorer. Coral's just told me that she's been having similar problems with browsers on the laptop (never known that sort of browser problem before). It'll probably all sort itself out soon. Think that's it. Thanks, Rog
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jun 26, 2010 11:38:17 GMT
Sorry Rog,
got your message too late to put it up. Was working last night sand just got in. Glad to see you've resolved it hopefully.
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Post by Calenture on Jun 26, 2010 21:10:25 GMT
Sorry Rog, got your message too late to put it up. Was working last night sand just got in. Glad to see you've resolved it hopefully. Hours later, I've just had the problem solved by Proboards, Craig. (I tried 4 browsers to log in, but could only do it with Firefox). Another Craig - Craig Suffolk of Proboards - asked if my PC was set to the right time and date. In fact, I'd accidentally reset the date yesterday when checking holiday dates. That caused the problem! It's been a bit of a day of small but annoying problems like that (repairing damaged Bambi and Pokemon videos, freeing a jammed VCR). Thinking about the rest of the day my mind's gone blank. Now that I'm here, I might as well do something useful and add FC's latest contributors' names to the others up there.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jun 27, 2010 9:41:24 GMT
Computers are great til they go wrong. I've lost so much work on them at times or spent days/weeks/ months once trying to get one fixed.
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Post by David Kartos on Jul 2, 2010 20:38:53 GMT
Sorry for not being on in a heck of long time folks but I haven't finished anything new yet , school problems see .
How far is FC6 then ?
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Post by Calenture on Jul 6, 2010 12:53:22 GMT
OK, as I just wrote on another thread, I'm trying to get a PayPal link set up. In the meantime, both FC 6 and TTMC 4 are back from the printers. Yep, they're here, it's done. As always seems to happen, the PayPal 'confirm email' thing is taking an eternity to reach my mailbox (this happened with Outlook and now with Hotmail). I wonder if anyone else finds this? There is a link to click if the email doesn't arrive... but it refers you to a password contained in the email you didn't get... hmm. Probably it's just me. Anyway, I've just printed out contributors addresses, and there's no need for them to worry about PayPal. I'll be getting some into the post this afternoon. We'll be mailing FC and TTMC together as we did last time. Apologies to those I wanted to send copies of older FCs to. Things have improved a lot here, but when the damned Epson ran dry again, it left us with several magazines minus covers and nearly £100 to find for printing the latest professionally printed issues so we decided not to buy more Epson ink for home printing right then. I don't think I'll go into reasons for my recent absence, 'cos it was just life getting in the way as usual, and I'm sure everyone has experience of it. ...And the damn confirming email from PayPal still hasn't arrived, so I'll just have to leave all the browser tabs open and get on with sticking labels on envelopes. Ho hum.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jul 6, 2010 16:18:18 GMT
Ya beauty as we say where I come from.
I might need four of these Rog. One for mum and three for me. But I have to pay for something so let me know.
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Post by David Kartos on Jul 6, 2010 20:59:23 GMT
Congrats , Rog , for finaly nailing the bastard
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Post by David A. Riley on Jul 10, 2010 9:21:55 GMT
Just got my copy this morning - and what a beauty!
Congratulations, Rog. This is an impressive looking magazine, and I look forward to reading it. It's nice to have my novel serialised alongside stories from some superb writers.
Many thanks!
David
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Post by Calenture on Jul 10, 2010 13:23:01 GMT
Thanks, David. Time I made a post here. OK, a number of people will have found a packet containing both Filthy Creations 6 and The Thinking Man's Crumpet 4 on their doormats this morning. Magazines going to overseas contributors Craig Herbertson, Robert Mammone (FC) and Reg Jones (TTMC), went out a day or two earlier. David Kartas - I've now got your new address, David. I finally figured out the PayPal problem yesterday, so I'll be onto that today. It wasn't that complicated. Just me doing things backward as usual. And I had problems working in a room where I could barely see the floor while I was building more bookshelves. This is what it looks like now: D F Lewis has already made an initial post about the magazine here at WeirdmongerAn interesting event this week was helping to clear thousands of dust-caked books from a bungalow on Portreath's Lighthouse Hill where an elderly scientist recluse died recently. But that's another story. Back soon.
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