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Website Profile:
DEVILDOG
By James Oswald
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The DevilDog (and that second capital ‘D’ is
very important) website is in many ways nothing more than
an enormous ego trip for me. It exists entirely as a showcase
for my writing; it never having occurred to me to try submitting
my short stories to magazines.
DevilDog Publishing came into existence back in 1997, with
the very short run publication of a travelogue entitled
Pedalling Uphill Slowly. With the help of Stuart MacBride,
who did the design work and had access to a duplex A3 laser
printer, I produced five hard-bound copies. Due to overwhelming
demand, a second run of seven copies was printed. These
twelve books are priceless collectors items today, which
is to say they are worth nothing at all.
The original DevilDog website grew out of this foray into
self-publication. I had always intended to produce a paperback
version and sell it properly, but funds never quite stretched
far enough to get the project off the ground. Instead I
bought the domain name devildog.co.uk and used my fledgling
skills in HTML to build a site where my other stories could
be shown off to the world. I would have liked devildog.com,
but at the time it was already owned by a New-York based
lesbian tattoo artist with a strange thing about dreams
and anal sex. It now seems to be a portal for the US Marine
division known as the Devil Dogs.
Over the years I’ve used the site to hone my web-development
skills, most recently rewriting the whole thing with CSS
instead of tables, which doesn’t work in Opera and
so will need doing again. Since I’m not doing much
web development work right now, it’s been put on the
back burner. It gets about five hits a week, though it did
manage to convince a Hollywood director that I was a serious
publisher earlier this year.
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