Category Archives: Man Behind the Curtain

We are winding into the last stretch for getting Utter Fabrication out the door, which means expenses are picking back up. We’ve also been doing some different things with content on the site. How does this all break down numerically? … Continue reading →

Things have slowly started to settle down after the surge of activity the previous months. Slowly. Very slowly. How about those numbers? The Money Aspect Amounts in parentheses are losses/expenses. Hosting: ($17.06) Stories: ($70.00) Art: ($420.00) Advertising: ($55.00) Processing Fees: … Continue reading →

May was about finalizing story selections for Utter Fabrication. A lot of payments went out related to that. The Money Aspect Amounts in parentheses are losses/expenses. Hosting: ($17.06) Stories: ($2,189.00) Art: ($224.96) Advertising: ($40.00) Processing Fees: ($52.58) Printing: ($25.02) Donations: … Continue reading →

April was the hard push at reading slush, and very little else was accomplished. Here’s what the numbers looked like. The Money Aspect Amounts in parentheses are losses/expenses. Hosting: ($17.06) Stories: ($75.00) Art: ($582.08) Advertising: ($30.00) Processing Fees: ($26.49) Conventions: … Continue reading →

March was a hectic flurry of activity in the wake of our Kickstarter ending: shipping out backer rewards for add-ons, getting Spring 2017 out the door, and dealing with the tsunami of slush that came in for the anthology. The Money … Continue reading →

February was spent plugging our next anthology Kickstarter. (And we’re now open to anthology submissions.) This meant a spike in advertising costs last month. The Money Aspect Amounts in parentheses are losses/expenses. Hosting: ($17.06) Stories: ($70.00) Art: ($224.23) Advertising: ($519.00) … Continue reading →

We are in the midst of running our latest Kickstarter. (Have I mentioned we have a Kickstarter? Because we have a Kickstarter. You can click this link to see the Kickstarter.) Most of January was spent getting ready for the … Continue reading →

December was about publishing the Winter 2017 quarterly, the last bit of shipping for Fitting In, and receiving submissions. It’s also the end of the calendar year. The Money Aspect Amounts in parentheses are losses/expenses. Hosting: ($17.06) Stories: ($40.00) Art: … Continue reading →

November was about getting books signed by authors and artists and putting together the Winter 2017 quarterly. The Money Aspect Amounts in parentheses are losses/expenses. Hosting: ($17.06) Stories: ($60.00) Art: ($417.60) Advertising: ($30.00) Processing Fees: ($19.00) Printing: ($88.23) Donations: $44.32 … Continue reading →

This month has been about trying to get all the books out the door. Printing books! Shipping books! Because of delays with Fitting In, we were having to work on both Fitting In and Mad Scientist Journal: Autumn 2016 at the … Continue reading →