No horrible commuting stories today, thank heavens. Even the connecting train in Jamaica this morning that I thought would be canceled — mainly because the LIRR website told it had been canceled — arrived pretty much on time. Today wasn’t much better or worse than any other Friday.
I hope to spend the weekend working on Kaleidotrope. With just a couple of exceptions, where I’m waiting on authors, everything is edited, and layout just needs to be finalized. I’m looking forward to getting this done…so I can pretty much immediately move into getting January’s issue ready. I suspect 2012, when I go wholly digital — and free, for those of you either with no cash to spend on a subscription or even just a bit of schadenfreude for my soon-to-be-emptying pockets — will be something of a learning process.
I won’t miss collating and mailing, though, that’s for sure.
I might also watch a movie over the weekend. It’s been a while since I did that.
Are you planning to move to a donation plan for Kaleidotrope?
Well, that’s the idea, and there’s already a donate link on the Kaleidotrope page. I’m not intending to go the whole non-profit, pledge-drive model of, say, Strange Horizons, but every little bit helps. I’ll keep selling ebook copies of the paper issues and continue to look for new ways to improve and bring in some money. All of which goes straight to contributors, mind you. It’s always just been a question of how out of pocket I am on this.
I wonder if you could get yourself hooked into the Dzanc indie-mega model?