Offering your Narrative Soup essay on your site

[John Brown]

Brandon,

I constantly refer people to your Narrative Soup article. Since Deep Magic is now defunct, it's a bit harder to find. Perhaps you want to sell it again. But if not, you might want to think about offering it on your website.

[EUOL]

That's too bad to hear about Deep Magic.  However, that's very good information, John.  Thanks for pointing it out to me.  I'll ask my agent if there's any place I could sell the article. Otherwise, on my website it will go!

[Phy]

http://raygunrevival.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?t=485

Deep Magic was the magazine I gravitated to when I first returned to reading sci-fi / fantasy, and it was where I was hanging out when I decided to take revisit a lifelong dream of becoming a creative writer (I'm a tech writer / help author by trade).

The Ray Gun Revival staff all came from the DM forums, and we have all be published over there in one form or another. When were were first developing ideas for RGR, we spent a number of sessions brainstorming with Jeremy, and he was very gracious with his suggestions, opinions, and enthusiasm for our little project. I develop the mag in Adobe InDesign CS2 much as Jeremy developed DM in ID. We publish as a downloadable .pdf as DM did. And so forth. Jeremy has been one of our biggest early supporters and saw other publications more as shieldmates than competitors, and his influence in the early going is impossible to overstate.

When DM announced they were closing their doors, I was curious who would continue to host them going forward to keep the legacy alive.  In the absence of any official archive initiatuive, I downloaded and renamed and combined all the DM issues into one .zip file that includes all Windows and Mac issues. It's 74 meg zipped and nearly a 100 meg uncompressed.

[Spriggan]

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

[EUOL]

Well, it IS nice to know that you can get my essay again via a download of Deep Magic.  Still, I've got to give Sprig points for that cool image macro.

Even if he doesn't know what image macros are.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_macro

[Spriggan]

it's not a macro!!!!!!!!

[EUOL]

[EUOL]

[Phy]

My one (minor) complaint about the DM archives had to do with the filename convention.  They were sorted by 'DeepMagic_(monthname)(year)'.  That meant that the sorted list showed as:
DeepMagic_April2004
DeepMagic_April2005
DeepMagic_Augustl2002
DeepMagic_Augustl2003...  and so forth. 

My primary contribution was changing the filenames so they can be sorted in order, and then I packaged them back together so others could take advantage of the updated filenames.

The article in question occurs in the second-to-last issue, May 2006.