Good news everybody!
We are all set for this Friday. Here’s a link to the TL;DR pre-order: http://amzn.eu/gIme7Um
I’m still working out the final bits for the createspace stuff, but I can confirm the price for the hard copies is going to be $10 or £7.11.
Huge, massive thanks to Cameron Frank for his help today! Cheers, dude.
Cheers
Joe
So, here we are. TL;DR has been finalised and is looking absolutely gorgeous thanks to the work of Cameron @c_scottfrank, and is now ready to be released in the world.
I can now confirm that the official release date for the collection is going to be, 30 March 2018.
It will be available on Amazon www.amazon.com for the low low price of £1.99 ($2.77). CreateSpace https://www.createspace.com/ will allow you to order a hard copy printed version of TL;DR which you can hold in your hands, and smell, and all the other stuff you might like to do with a book. Beware it will be more expensive though. More info on that to come.
All of the money from the sales of TL;DR will go directly to Doctors Without Borders. @mrdanalvarez did a lot of the leg work making that a reality, including getting in contact with them and setting up the ground rules, (Big thanks to Dan).
Finally, and I know I have said it before in various ways, but I am so proud of what we have done as a community. The whole process has been really positive. Even the people who didn’t make it in to the anthology deserve thanks for being so gracious. This really wouldn’t have been possible without all of the #Redditwriters group coming together and making it happen.
As always, special thanks to the editors David Clark, Camden M Collins, Ellie Raine, and Alexander Hamilton.
Fingers crossed that this one is a success, and here’s to more anthologies in the future.
Thank you
Joe
So, a long awaited update.
We, the editors, are knee deep in second scoring at the moment. We have our long list, and are working hard to get that shortlist finalised, but we are on the downward slope, speeding towards the finish line. Woo!
It’s been hard work, but an amazing experience so far. The Redditwriters community is absolutely amazing and incredibly talented. The quality of the submissions I have read have absolutely blown me away, and I am really excited to get this project out! Thank you for engaging with the project with such enthusiasm!
As soon as second scoring is done, I will contact the authors individually and announce the shortlist on the blog.
Artwork.
Now that we are on the homestretch, I would like to announce a call for cover art.
Let’s do this as a competition! Anyone interested in submitting up to two pieces of art, (Front cover only), please send it to redditwriters2017@gmail.com by 10 December 2017. Don’t make me ruin the project with crayons.
We, the editors will vote on the shortlist and then put those pieces out for final vote from you guys.
LETS DO THIS!
Hello all,
It’s been a good couple of weeks since the anthology was announced, so I thought I would post an update.
A big thank you to everyone who has submitted so far, and if you haven’t yet, remember that we need as many as we can for this thing work. (Sep 17th!)
The awesome team of editors and I have been busy devising how we are going to manage the submissions and editing process, and I wanted to share that with you.
So, once a piece is received:
Timeline
We are looking to make the collection around 60k words, which is about 40, 1500 word entries. Depending on the amount of submissions we get in, we aim to get the long list together by the mid-late October. Final scoring and drawing up of accepted submissions will be done by mid-November with a view to getting the finished product out by early December. Woo hoo.
Charity News
The votes came in and you guys voted on Doctors Without Borders, so we will be going with them. Thank you to @mrdanalvarez who has started to look into how we set it up. I’ll post a proper update on that as soon as everything is confirmed.
Here is the website if you want to have a look at the amazing work they do http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org
There were a couple of suggestions of encouraging arts based charities, and if this collection is successful and doesn’t turn my hair grey, then we should absolutely go with that next time.
I hope that is okay with everyone.
Naming the Collection
@mrdanalvarez also ran a poll as to what the title of the collection might be and has collected some of the suggestions here, https://t.co/WUwSWmkjaJ. I’m voting for my own suggested title, TL;DR: An Anthology.
I’d like to give huge thanks to the genre editors @selfpluspen, @jivanward, @AizelleRaine, @camdenmcollins, and @ADHamilton91 for helping me work the details of the process out.
Thanks, and have an awesome weekend from the #redditwriters, anthology team!
Joe
Okay, so a couple of days ago @davidjsand created the redditwriters hashtag, and man, what a genius idea! My twitter feed has never been so alive with activity. It’s so awesome to see so many people connecting. I really hope it continues.
I mentioned that maybe we should do a collection of #redditwriters short stories and the idea gained traction quite quickly. Now here I am looking at the very real possibility of managing a collection from you guys. It’s quite an exciting and scary prospect.
Whilst I am excited, I am also really busy with work/life and my own writing projects. So, if it is going to happen I am going to need some help from you guys. Also, I have never managed a project on this type of scale before.
Submission rules
So, this is how I am proposing it should work:
Initially, let’s get this one published on an e-platform. I only know Amazon’s platform, so we can go with that. If anyone has any other suggestions for a different platform, let me know, and be aware that I will need help getting it on there!
No specified genre or theme. You guys wanted to submit your own stuff and I am down with that idea. So, for it to make any kind of sense we will order it by genre. Thanks @ADHamilton91 for the idea, I think it’s a great one.
However, to make this feasible given the amount of people who have shown interest, we need to limit word count to 1500 words. Limited to a maximum of two submissions.
So, when you submit, it would be super useful if you could include the following information:
Try and submit your work according to the Chicago style guide if possible. If not just remember to
Please note that all work submitted in Comic Sans will be sacrificed to the demon, Eligos, and your soul will be forfeit.
If you want to submit more than one piece for different genres, tell me your preference, but remember that we need to balance the genres as evenly as possible.
Send your submissions to the newly created redditwriters2017@gmail.com
Deadline
Let’s go for a submissions deadline of 17 September 2017. That will give everyone the chance to get something together. If we then aim for an early November release date.
Editing/quality control
No pressure, but submit your best effort and be open to suggestions and edits! I’d love for this to go somewhere and I want you to be happy with what is published. I am happy to edit as long as you are happy to read suggestions from me/anyone else and make changes. It should be a collaborative effort.
I am proposing that each genre has a primary editor, (volunteers please!) who will read through the submission, makes some suggestions/edits/ formats and liaises with the author, and I will manage final edits/ style. I am happy to manage the Sci-Fi genre! Thanks @pubby88 for the suggestion on a panel of editors.
Royalties
There was also another great suggestion by @cookfiction that we do this for charity and I am absolutely down for that.
I’m open for ideas on what charity we should go with, but I am thinking given that funding has been cut across the board for planned parenthood, that we donate anything we make from this to Planned Parenthood Texas, https://www.plannedparenthood.org/planned-parenthood-greater-texas.
I’m not from Texas, but it feels right.
(Edit! After some thought and conversation, I am going to put this to poll with a couple of different options! Thanks for your ideas.)
Let me know what you guys think. If there are other ideas I will put it to a poll on Twitter and we’ll go with the majority.
I’ll need to look into how we go about setting it up with the charity so that the funds go directly to them and not through me.
In Reddit parlance, TLDR; Submissions= no genre/theme, 1500 words soft limit. Deadline for up to two submissions is, 17 September 2017. This is for charity. I love you guys.
Next steps
I need volunteers to take on editing duties for the different genres- Big thanks to @selfpluspen for volunteering for editing already.
If you are interested in helping out with the editing, email me at redditwriters2017@gmail.com and we’ll chat. I think we may have to do this on a first come first serve basis.
I also need you guys to tell me what charity you want if you don’t like my idea. Do it on the twitter post linking to this blog post, so we can have an open debate, and as I said, if it differs from mine, we will just do a poll.
Finally, I need your writing. I am super excited to be a part of this project and hopefully with a good number of us on board, we can do something amazing.
PS, Apologies if I missed thanking anyone I should have. I am throwing this together as fast as I can to keep the momentum.
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