From: jsnell@ocf.berkeley.edu (Jason Snell)
Newsgroups: alt.prose,alt.horror,rec.arts.startrek.misc,rec.arts.sf.misc,alt.cyberpunk,rec.arts.books,misc.writing
Subject: INTERTEXT: Call for submissions/subscriptions
Date: 7 Jan 1993 02:53:53 GMT
Organization: InterText Magazine
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: bigbang.berkeley.edu

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                    Editor: Jason Snell (jsnell@ocf.Berkeley.edu)
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InterText is a network-distributed bi-monthly magazine. It's free! We publish
all kinds of material, ranging from mainstream stories to fantasy to horror
to science fiction to humor. We've been publishing InterText for about two
years now, and hope to continue on far into the future.

InterText publishes in both ASCII (plain text) and PostScript (laser printer)
formats, and reaches over 1,000 readers in countries throughout the four
corners of the globe. (Can a globe have four corners? You know what I
mean...)

The ASCII version runs approximately 150K per issue; for those of you with
tight file gateways, we can split the issue up for you and squeeze it
through if need be.

The PostScript version runs approximately 500K. For most people we send
this out compressed and uuencoded, which requires you to be able to
uudecode and uncompress on your end. The compressed, uuencoded file is
usually about 250-300K. If you can't uncompress and uuencode, we
also offer a "noUU" version of InterText that is a lot bigger but doesn't
require you to do anything except stick the PostScript file together on
your end and dump it to a printer.

Anyone can submit a story, regardless of age, race, gender, educational
status, corporate affiliation, etc.

Stories should be under 15,000 words, though exceptions to this rule can
be made. (We're VERY selective about longer, serialized works, so it's
a good idea to ask us...)

All genres of writing are acceptable. We've published "mainstream"-style
stories, as well as far-out science fiction. I'd like to keep the magazine
as diverse as possible. Also, it must be original fiction -- no use of
copyrighted characters, e.g. Star Trek, Dr. Who, etc.

Submissions can be made in one of two formats: ASCII or RTF (Interchange).
If you don't know what RTF is, don't worry. If you do (or if you don't
and have a macintosh -- ask me!), then it's an easy way to keep special
characters and italics, etc., in shape.

For those submitting in plain ASCII, it's best to use 2-3 spaces as your
indents, don't double-space, don't put an extra space in between
paragraphs.

For Mac users out there, I will accept stuffed, binhexed Macwrite or
Microsoft Word files, but since MS Word has an RTF option, you should
just be able to use that.

Oh, one more thing: all writers retain the copyright to their story. The
actual issue is copyrighted by me, but only the issue as a complete
entity. All future rights to your story belongs to you.

IMPORTANT:
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The legal ramifications of electronic publishing are not entirely clear. If
you publish a story in InterText, professional magazines may not accept it
because it has already been "published." 

It's a sticky problem you should be aware of. One day, when all
publications are electronic, it won't be a problem anymore!


NON-FICTION:

If you're interested in writing non-fiction, ask me. I'm not interested in
publishing what are essentially netnews posts. But if you've got an
interesting story (and most likely I'd prefer it to be semi-journalistic in
tone), feel free to ask.

If you'd like to see back issues of InterText, you can FTP them from
the following locations.

The most quickly-updated FTP sites are:
 
network.ucsd.edu     (128.54.16.3)   in /intertext
 
ftp.eff.org          (192.88.144.4)  in /journals/InterText

These are the preferred sites. The moment the issue comes out (usually
before I mail it out, in fact), it's also available on the UCSD site.
Soon after, it's available on ftp.eff.org.  

Issues also end up at the following sites eventually:

cs.ubc.ca            (137.82.8.5)    in /pub/archive/mirror
                                             /EFF/journals/InterText
wuarchive.wustl.edu  (128.252.135.4) in /mirrors2/EFF/journals/InterText
nic.switch.ch        (130.59.1.40)   in /docs/magazine/InterText

Login as anonymous, with your email address as your password.

If you can't FTP, mail me and ask how to "FTP by mail." FTPing is the
fastest, most efficient way of getting back issues, since the only other
way of getting them is by me sending them to you by hand, and that is a
long and time-consuming process.

If you have CompuServe, you can read our ASCII issues in the
Electronic Frontier Foundation Forum, accessible by typing GO EFFSIG.
We're located in the "Zines from the Net" section of EFFSIG.

If you have any other questions, also feel free to email me.

--Jason Snell
jsnell@ocf.Berkeley.edu (best address)
intertxt@network.ucsd.edu (will forward to me)
jsnell@ucsd.edu (will forward to me)

-- 
  Jason Snell / jsnell@ocf.berkeley.edu / Cal Graduate School of Journalism
 InterText: A Net Fiction Magazine - ASCII or PostScript - Mail me for info!
            "I thought for a second that my monkey had rabies --
   It turned out he had just gotten into the Cool Whip." -- Dave Letterman
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