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IN FOR QUESTIONING
By Sandra Ruttan |
SPINETINGLER has been operating for two years now, and one
of the byproducts of the e-zine is that we’re constantly
sent notices about new books being released, invitations to
interview authors, touring information…
We’re a quarterly e-zine so the information would be
stale by the time it was put in print, even if we did include
announcements. Every time I opened one of these e-mails I found
myself asking, What do they want me to do with this?
Meanwhile, I’d noticed something. A lot of the mainstream
publishing industry news sources weren’t talking about
the authors I was hearing a lot of buzz about. Reader discussion
groups were filled with praise for Troy Cook’s 47 Rules
for Highly Effective Bankrobbers and Robert
Fate’s Baby
Shark.
Small press authors oozing with talent, but largely overlooked.
That’s when I realized that a lot of the small press
news isn’t getting reported. In the scheme of what’s
newsworthy, I suppose six-figure deals and multi-book contracts
and the various missteps of bestselling authors draw a guaranteed
audience, and that’s fine. But that doesn’t mean
there isn’t a lot happening in the business that never
gets reported on.
I mentioned my thoughts to a few friends. We agreed that this
was a corner of the market that didn’t get much coverage,
and we decided to do something about it.
In For Questioning is a blog that has a focus on small press
news, new authors, contest, underground projects… We
aren’t saying we won’t talk about big presses or
bestselling authors sometimes. We’re only saying that
our primary focus is on sharing information with readers about
new authors, new presses and new ventures that they might otherwise
not hear about.
We want small presses to e-mail us with their announcements.
We want to hear about underground anthologies, new releases
from e-zines.
We aren’t promising to post everything we receive. We
are pledging to keep our eye open for interesting news that
might be of interest.
You can check us out at: www.inforquestioning.com or inforquestioning.blogspot.com
Small presses, magazines, e-zines and editors can send announcements
to news@inforquestioning.com
Contributors to In For Questioning include Sandra Ruttan, Canadian
author John McFetridge, American author SW Vaughn.
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