Support your local small presses!

[martinlivings]

Yes, I've been slack about putting my money where my mouth is lately. Sometimes I feel like a bloated leech on the neck of small presses; I tend to take money from them (by selling them stories) but never give any back (by actually buying anything). I tend to survive off contributors copies alone. But when something genuinely different comes along, you should get behind it, just a little, to keep it going long enough to see if it'll work. Small presses, like small businesses, tend to either fail very quickly or stick around for a long time. It's up to us to push them from the former to the latter, to give them a chance to find their feet. Or, more accurately in this case, find their audience.

So please, subscribe to New Ceres now. It's only five bucks an issue, with stories from folks like catsparx, jaylake, stephen_dedman and the (as far as I know) LJ-less Lucy Sussex. I've laid down my pink plastic note. If I like it, I'll keep laying them down. But if we don't do this early on, we'll never get the chance to see where this experiment goes. And that would be a serious shame.

As a mildly-inappropriate incentive, anyone who can email me their receipt for subscribing (with any sensitive information edited out, of course!) will be emailed a PDF copy of the prologue to Bitches, the sequel-in-progress to Carnies.

Email me at newcerespimp [at] martinlivings [dot] com.