I am going to start a literary journal, or a magazine, I don't entirely know the difference. Journal seems more research based to me. Something that the MLA might publish. Magazine has more of a glossy connotation in my head. Something to which Cosmo and Allure and Entertainment Weekly are relegated.


But basically I just want to start my own magazine and publish peoples creative non-fiction, fiction and poetry. And if I'm lucky, maybe one-act plays.


I have invited Lorie to join in this endeavor.


I did preliminary research on the cost of such a publication, and for 100 copies, it'd only cost $380. And I could easily make that in advertising space, I think. Like specialty bookstores, creative writing low-residency programs at universities, art supply stores... stuff like that.


The problem is distribution. Outside of sending copies to my professors back at Maryland, I don't know what else to do, other than try to get some book stores to buy a few copies. Oh, and online distribution. But other than that, I really don't know.


Also, a name is in order. I'm thinking: Lady MacBeth's Nipples. If you're wondering how I came upon this name, I recently went to Canada to see MacBeth, and I was reminded of some of my favorite Shakespearean imagery:


Lady MacBeth


What beast was't, then,

That made you break this enterprise to me?

When you durst do it, then you were a man;

And, to be more than what you were, you would

Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place

Did then adhere, and yet you would make both:

They have made themselves, and that their fitness now

Does unmake you. I have given suck, and know

How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me:

I would, while it was smiling in my face,

Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums,

And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you

Have done to this.



Obviously my favorite part is the second half...


Anybody have any thoughts on distribution or other funding ideas? Or even any better journal name? Because Lady MacBeth's Nipples may not encourage advertising space...

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