From: ckeroack@hamp.hampshire.edu
Subject: UpComing Magazine (business offer, submission and subscription info)
Organization: Hampshire College
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 16:56:46 GMT

Reply to this letter and your business can receive advertising in our magazine
for a full year for the cost of one subscription! (currently $15 for 4 issues,
with issues coming out this year in July, September, October and December and
going seasonal in 1993).
		Our circulation is rather erratic at the moment, but 
judging from the enthusiastic responses received, you'll be able to 
reach a wide variety of colleges, universities, bookstores and comic 
shops. We even have people involved as far away as Norway and Canada, as 
well as from both coasts of the U.S., to give you an idea of how far one 
can reach. 
		If you have an ad composed already, send it either as a 
black-and-white piece that can be reduced as small as 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 
(although many ads will be full-page) with very clear text. We also 
accept text in IBM ASCII format on 3 1/2 inch disk or Macintosh Word 
format on 3 1/2 inch disk. Mac PICT files are also acceptable. If you 
like, you can even give us the "raw info" and we'll compose the ad for 
you.
		Hope to hear from your business soon!
 

						-Chris 
				                 ckeroack@hamp.hampshire.edu

Editor and Layout Coordinator for UpComing, the Magazine of Speculative 
Fiction... submissions cheerfully and rather gratefully accepted... for 
info on the magazine, e-mail to address above... to submit, send with 
SASE to UpComing, Box 566, Hampshire College, Amherst, Mass., 01002, 
USA.


	*UpComing is cool. UpComing is fiction. UpComing is you.*

		This is a magazine of what we call "speculative 
fiction". That is to say, anything in the writing genres which stretch 
the boundaries of fiction today (sci fi, fantasy, experimental fiction, 
poetry, House and Senate budget reports...). It is a magazine whose 
scope is defined only by the gifted people who submit to it. 
		We accept submissions of graphic/sequential art as well,
recognizing their viability and versatility.
		Finally, even some nonfiction will be accepted, as long 
as it deals with issues in fiction or film. Thus, reviews, commentary, 
con reports, etc. are all welcomed. Please preface them with query 
letters.
		Payment will be on a royalty system: short (one or two 
verse) poetry, interior art or the like receives 3 cents per issue sold. 
All other work receives 6 cents per issue sold. Submission equals 
consent to this system; no contracts to sign, no paperwork, no hassle. 
		The next (what will be termed the first) issue comes out 
in July. There will be three more this year; one in September, one in 
October, one in December. Starting in 1993 we will be a seasonal mag; 
spring, summer, etc.
		Subscription price is $15/year (4 issues, which this 
year has as a free bonus the preview issue) or $4/ issue.
		To receive the preview issue of UpComing which includes full
 subscription information, send a SASE with a cheque for $1 payable to 
"UpComing" to the address in my signature file. 
		
NOTES:
		1) Our subscription formats are :
			hard copy,
			IBM ASCII,
			Macintosh Word,
			Macintosh PICT.
		Please send only 3 1/2 inch disks if at all possible and 
refrain from sending us electronic submissions (i.e., material to our 
VAX accounts). We like to get stuff that's postmarkable, so we can cover 
our behinds in the event of a copyright concern coming up.
		2) If people don't subscribe to the magazine (i.e., pay 
money for it), then it's REALLY difficult to pay people for their work. 
As it is, we aren't going to be offering very much for quite some time; 
we won't even have fixed rates until at least next year. But as with the 
writing quality, that sort of thing can easily be fixed... if you want 
the magazine to flourish, buy a subscription and encourage others to as 
well. $15 /year comes out to be in the realm of 5 cents a day. Just 
think... a writer-friendly, non-pretentious magazine where everyone 
involved just wants their name to be spread about a bit... to know that 
what the work they see in a magazine is being seen around the United 
States and beyond. We give starting writers and artists the courage to 
submit to "the big guys" by practicing with us... you give starting writers
and artists that chance by buying the magazine. 
		3) if $15 is a bit much to you, each issue is $4 each. 
At least give one issue a try. =)
		4) Rememeber when submitting that all we get for rights 
are first publishing rights. You retain everything else. If we want to 
print it again, or print a portion of it again, we re-negotiate things 
with you. You could even conceivably say (for quite some time) "well 
,yes, someone else does technically have first publishing rights, but 
since they're so small with such a small circulation..." and see what 
kind of legal hoops there are to jump thru to get around that. And of 
course there is the obvious option of simply taking the story, our 
comments and reader feedback and doing enough of an edit on your 
existing work that you can sell first rights to one of the pretentious 
upper crusty.... um, well-paying mags. 

		Oh, by the way...
		Anyone who has seen this offer, replies to it and then 
subscribes, gets the price of their postage for any correspondence 
(sending to get the preview and sending to subscribe) deducted from 
their subscription price. This offer is for netters only! (Anyone who 
can send a print-out of this file with their SASE, generally.)

						-Chris 
				                 ckeroack@hamp.hampshire.edu


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