Do not miss the opportunity to experience the International Journal of Crime Fiction
Noir Nation aims to create a journal of crime fiction supported by an interactive community-building Web site. The Web site will also feature short original works of film noir.
We decided to pursue a digital platform because there are many places in the world with roads that are difficult to travel, which lead sometimes to poorly stocked bookstores and libraries.
Noir Nation: International Journal of Crime Fiction would be delivered electronically anywhere in the world that can receive either cable or wireless communications signals.
The magazine will be professionally edited and designed so that readers can engage immediately with the writing and art and the ideas they convey rather than having to overcome natty typos and badly formatted paragraphs that slow the velocity of their enjoyment.
Why crime noir? There is currently no periodic publication on an international scale satisfying readers' hunger for works of well-wrought literary fiction that explore the dark side of human experience, and that does so while pursuing its own aesthetic ends, rather than the legitimate but sometimes competing interests of the marketing departments of commercial publishing houses.
To accomplish our goals, we will rely on local and internationally based writers and visual artists and graphic designers to create, edit, and lay out the magazine in a format that will be delivered to e-book reading devices, including the Kindle, the iPad, and smartphones. This venture will be supported by a Web site that will invite bloggers and other writers to share information and commentary about developments in the noir and crime writing community. A keen eye and a good rapport with readers and artists will ensure that Noir Nation will have a steady supply of the best crime fiction being written today.
The money you are pledging is for the design, layout, cover art, illustrations, photography, and production costs of the journal, conversion to EPUB, writer and artist stipends, work for hire, as well as copyrighting to ensure the rights of individual writers and artists are protected, purchase of an ISSN, and for any coding and design work required to ensure successful delivery to most if not all e-book reading devices currently available in the market, but especially those most commonly used in developing nations.
To accomplish our goals, we will rely on local and internationally based writers and visual artists and graphic designers to create, edit, and lay out the magazine in a format that will be delivered to e-book reading devices, including the Kindle, the iPad, and smartphones. This venture will be supported by a Web site that will invite bloggers and other writers to share information and commentary about developments in the noir and crime writing community. A keen eye and a good rapport with readers and artists will ensure that Noir Nation will have a steady supply of the best crime fiction being written today.
The money you are pledging is for the design, layout, cover art, illustrations, photography, and production costs of the journal, conversion to EPUB, writer and artist stipends, work for hire, as well as copyrighting to ensure the rights of individual writers and artists are protected, purchase of an ISSN, and for any coding and design work required to ensure successful delivery to most if not all e-book reading devices currently available in the market, but especially those most commonly used in developing nations.
Alan Thomas said . . .
ReplyDeleteThe Link to the Noir Nation fundraiser on Kickstarter.com is:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1925429247/noir-nation-international-journal-of-crime-fiction
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