As a perspective author, I've come to feel that we need more good places to publish short fiction. So I want to start a magazine. Ideally, it would be a paying venue (if you want a nonpaying venue, you can just use your blog).
I think there is room for publication focusing on historical writings.
A typical issue might have 5 historical fiction short stories, 2 novel excerpts, an essay, and 1 or 2 biography excerpts. The target reader would be history buffs (not fantasy buffs).
Right now I'm looking for a good name. Here are two I've been considering: Historical Fiction Magazine, There and Then.
What do you think?
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
In complete seriousness, I think you should know what word you should have used instead of "perspective" if you want to start a magazine.
Posted by lobo (Member # 1761) on :
I think Bebe wants to write things like this:
"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."
"Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed."
"Eveyone is a genius at least once a year. A real genius has his original ideas closer together."
"[W]hen people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was spherical they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together."
"Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one."
"From the sublime to the ridiculous there is but one step."
Posted by scifibum (Member # 7625) on :
I like "There and Then" a lot better.
TomDavidson, consider this: historical fiction writers might legitimately be called "perspective authors." Posted by Terry O'Brien (Member # 12014) on :
You should call it "Historical Fiction/ Nonfiction Magazine Perspectives."
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
How about "Vanishing Point?"
Posted by Amka (Member # 690) on :
Hi Bebe,
I think the idea of a historical fiction magazine is a really great one.
But if you start a magazine like that, unless you have nothing else going on in your life, you'll not likely be writing any more stories until you're able to get someone else to be your editor, and an assistant editor who reads the slush.
Is this going to be online?
Good luck!
Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
quote:A typical issue might have 5 historical fiction short stories, 2 novel excerpts, an essay, and 1 or 2 biography excerpts. The target reader would be history buffs (not fantasy buffs).
That's a lot in one magazine.
I like 'There and Then,' too.
Posted by BlueWizard (Member # 9389) on :
How about "The Time Traveler" because those who dabble in history are always traveling through time.
Keep in mind that while some authors write about past history, some authors, perhaps Orson Scott Card, write about future history. So, perhaps "Past, Present, Future Magazine".
Or you could borrow from the Rolling Stones, and call it "Through the Past Darkly".
Or "Historical Victors" or "History's Victors" , because history is always written by the victor.
Or since it is fiction, "History Re-Imagined" or "History Imagined".
All that said, "Historical Fiction" is pretty straight forward and to the point. Just make sure some one isn't already using the name.
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