The Ethereal Gazette

Welcome to the main lobby of the official web presence of the magazine, The Ethereal Gazette. The domain for the website isn't active yet but I should have this within the coming months. Pay no mind to the jokers who steal the name because they got mad because I got them thrown off lulu.com. Well, in a nutshell I started the office website because one of the many idiots had gone around impersonating along with writing as my grandmother and everything and using some damn cutsy color scheme then hijack a the magazine's name as it's domain name.
      Some of them are angry because I refuse to publish anything connected to the certain communities -- that is something I will never publish. (They'll call me every nasty name in the book because of this, but ask me if I care.) I rejected one woman for trying to push smut onto me. So if you're a slash writer there's the door, pal, don't let it hit you on the way out. If you write horror like that the characters suck pole or take it up the ass, I am not interested. I publish horror and modern day set Science Fiction with a heterosexual angle, and publish writers who are every bit as UN-PC and grotesque minded as Writings From The Grave.
     The e-mail address to submit to the magazine is located on this website etherealgazette@gmail.com. I thrive on the content that is very UN-PC, think the song A.I.D.S. from M.O.D. and you will have the right idea with the magazine. This is a Gothic magazine but it does take amore from heavy metal than Goth Rock. I will do the magazine and will have special anthologies annoucned with the magazine. I always had the magazine, the magazine started in the spring of 2005 and will feature dark fiction along with some disturbing creative non-fiction thrown in for good measure.. Ignore the losers with the domain. The real attitude of the magazine is right here. I will have updates on the magazine via my myspace blog and facebook annoucements.
     I have the basic guidelines done and the house rules (yes this magazine has a set of rules -- they're easy to follow.) I will not allow slash fiction of any kind. The magazine was born out of The House of Pain E-zine and the overflow of the second Tabloid Purposes. It's been around for quite some time and been read by the more well known people in the business. It's respected and hated because of the same things. No matter what people try to say about the magazine -- I will always have a line up with it. We're out of the Southlands and the only Gothic thing around in this area. There's no spooky discos where people dance around like Devo -- it's born out of the pit and the minds have a heart of metal in many ways.
     I have a reputation for publishing other publishers, so that means if you're looking for a post Ethereal Gazette creditm talk to some of other publishers I work with over the years because my magazine does have a reputatation of having other publishers as contributors. They will be glad to look at your work. Some of them are young but some of them been around just as long as my publication. I do look for other writers who can do stories similar to The Fandom Writer -- something in terms of that attitude. I will have the full GLS for the magazine on one of the pages. I launched the magazine on lulu.com sometime in July 2005, but the flesh and bloods appeared as a giveaway at the first Gothicfest.
     This magazine was coached by none other than the Gothic Historian Mick Mercer -- he gave me all the tips of running a magazine and do it in a way that will stay around for a long time. I took the lessons that Mick Mercer gave me along with the lessons that Bob Gunner and Wraith Knox then do something on a bigger scale. The first issue featured an Alumni of House of Pain, Trent Zelanzy and then Chimeraworld /Tabloid Purposes allumni. I had a good line up from year one. Every odd fourth number issue is a local edition. I am very UN-PC when I deliver the GLS for the magazine and what I want for the fiction and non-fiction is very particular. I do all the interviews in house. Don't ask me to do reviews, but I will mention a band's CD in the editor's lounge of the magazine. To buy the magazine, you have to join lulu.com.
     I publish plenty of pulp era Gothic Horror, but I also publish true stories -- something that Lake Fossil Press also published from the beginning. The magazine used to have a home on Googlepages, but Googlepages opted to stop running websites. For those of you who seen the writer's beware boards -- I am very controversial because of my battles with Slash writers and fan fiction writing rejects who get celebrated for writing fan fiction. Everyone knows I am not going to be nice to certain communities, so what I seek with the writers are ones who are not afraid to rub people the wrong way. Not afraid to give the middle finger as a promotional picture. While you're at it go ahead and send some hate mail to Stefan Wiles for trying to impersonate a company that's been around since 2004. This sperm burbing asshole --- Stefan Wiles, needs to understand something. He might have the domain but Lake Fossil Press' heart and soul doesn't have a domain. I put my heart and soul into the magazine, it's been mine since 2005 -- they will always be my publications, but I got cyber-terrorists trying to practice hostile takeovers. So with that being said -- welcome to the real website for The Ethereal Gazette. Anyone trying to start trouble will be on the wall of shame via my weblog on blogspot.
      This magazine is a print on demand so if you want to get this one -- it's on lulu.com. There is nothing homo about this magazine so if you see all the tags, ignore them. I write the press releases for the line up and do what I can to promote everyone. It's not about the domain name, but the spirit behind the name and the company. I look out for every author on the roster as in I try to get them published in larger places too. Five of us appeared together in other magazines outside of Lake Fossil Press over the years -- this magazine is responsible for lauching author/illustrator combination Alex Rivera and started the print career for Author who likes to fuck up the holidays for the fun of it, William Malmborg. I will also do special anthologies with The Ethereal Gazette. I won't post these Guidelines outright but if you see me on certain forums I will have them posted there. One of them is a true ghost story anthology project that I am doing just for fun -- the writers who I told about it know I do anthologies for the fun of it.
     I am in the process of making the magazine office website a little more interactive meaning I am going to use video files like I used audio files years earlier with my official website. The video parts of the main part of the magazine website will be updated every now and then along with certain other parts of the magazine too.

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United States Subscriptions

scroll the upper menu to select your respective country to subecribe to the electronic form of the magazine, and subscribers will be getting some books at randon pending what I can order up. Domestic subscriptions will a hardcover version of some projects with subscription.

All right those of you I finally am offering the subscription feature to the magazine, and subscribers will get the completed issue after it goes to print as a color .pdf file. I had people asking me where they can subscribe at, all that asked about this and now I listened. Then subscribers will have one more thing coming to them, some print anthologies published by me and books written by Lake Fossil Press and The Ethereal Gazette Alumni. A lot of the writers actually send contributors to their alma mata. I sometimes get contributors from my alma matas in the publishing industry. I will offer subscriptions in a number of currencies. United States Dollars (Dead Presidents,) Canadian Dollars, Australian Dollars, GBP, and some others. Like Writings From The Grave, donations are also accepted too. There will be a set donation because of two rival publishers would keep pulling the $ .01 payments on paypal saying they "understand" the expenses of running a publishing company and a magazine. Chipin is going to be used sparingly, but now Lake Fossil Press is a registered business via PayPal.com and Amazon.com. This magazine's funding comes from both subscriptions and on donations. I don't charge reading fees for the magazine or the anthologies on Lake Fossil Press, but there will be a second ongoing venture I am doing that will. (Don't worry I am not going to charge a very expensive reading fee for that one. It will be a Gothic tinged creative non-fiction journal, sort of a dark and scary version of Creative Nonfiction Magazine. This will be a competive rate there. The contributors of the print journal will have their publication distributed to the contributors of The Ethereal Gazette. I actually thought of doing something like this a few years before I started The Ethereal Gazette if I knew the technology was there in 2002, and knew about Open Office back then. )
     Please note the price for subscription and the books are little higher outside of the United States and the print books will be ordered from the publisher then backorderd to printing partner and shipped to where the subscriber lives. Please include a physical address where the flesh and blood titles can be shipped to. I will also offer some of my own titles an author as one of the thank you for subscribing. Such as what Sports Illustrated offers for people who subscribe. The money from subscriptions help pay for living expenses and to pay the editor's choice rate. Subscribers can unscribe at any time. The print on demands are non returnable books but done in a real quality to them that rival the bigger publishing houses. Trial scriptions they will be getting the chapbook version of The Storms Of Armageddon. Sample issues are sold directly on lulu.com, but Issue 6 will be $14.00 to cover postage. That would be $10.00 plus $4 shipping and handling in the lower fourty-eight. By subscribing to the magazine, you're supporting all the talented authors I bring in each issue in the realms of horror, modern day science fiction, and dark creative nonfiction.
     The anthologies, books and chapbooks are picked at random. Sort of like a lottery for the titles. The billing cycle the three issue subscription and anthologies are yearly. They will get the anthologies or editor's own titles twice a year either current titles or back titles. One can cancel at anytime and the print books are a personal thank you for being a subscriber to the magazine. I can accept four credit cards with subscribers, bank debit cards, and even e-check from a bank. The .pdf of the completed issues will be sent to subscribers e-mail inbox just after the flesh and blood versions are published. Terms of subscribers are that they can't distribute their .pdfs because those are their personal copies for them only. If they want to promote the magazine, use the link to where it's sold on Lulu.com. Trial subscribers will get a pdf of the issue with one chapbook or a lesser anthology. If they want to opt out before the trial period ends they can -- but the print issue is theirs to keep.
     I will even take submissions from subscribers if they want to be published too. But to be published a subscription isn't required. But a subscription gives them a full broadscope of what the magazine is all about. The print publications come in either 6 x 9 trade paperback or 6.21 x 9.14 royal trade paperback. The higher end subscriptions help me pay the models who occasionally come and appear on the magazine's cover, it's splash page or as an intermission between stories. The unsubscribe feature will work with all the currencies honored. UK Customers: I didn't change the numbers on the subscriptions because I am trying to make it easier for me to keep track of subscriptions. Print publications will be ordered directly from Lulu.com and shipped to where they are. Also, I am interested in getting some investors for the magazine too, there will be a donate button then one for the investors too.
     I am trying to follow the lead of Ebony or Jet in this sense of the world. I might be European in heritage, but I have a very strong African-American rooting in terms of readership over the years. As much as I don't listen to rap, a local rapper did a small documentary and approached me becuase he knew who I was because of both the magazine, other magazines I contributed fiction to, and my website. There's the donation feature open and then the investors -- investors are higher in rate and that will also help in contributing to pay the editor's choice rate to writers in the magazine. Investors get hardcover editions of some of the publications along with two trade paperbacks. The parent company of the magazine is now registered as a business on PayPal.com and Amazon.com. Anyone who calls the magazine The Ethereal Gazette the Gayzette in earshot of me will get their ass kicked in if they're male -- blackballed if female. The males calling it this will be going for a swim in the Chicago River after they get shoved in from the North Avenue Bridge so don't even fucking think about it. Issue Seven and Issue 8 are also part of a condensed volumes book consisting of the runt of the anthologies called More Frightening Than Fiction -- this one is available as a download.

Like other magazines, namely Ebony or Jet (I am using these two for an example because they're Chicago based) will have investers along with subscribers. Well my magazine is looking for some investores too. Investers will be getting a hardcover edition of an anthology, two back issues in print and An Eye In Shadows (or The Writings Collected both chosen by editor.) All sent to them from the printing host of everything that's released on Lake Fossil Press. There's the donation above that's known as the editor's living expense fund then the investors. Donations get e-copies of a publication. Investors get a number of flesh 'n bloods. The investors will be working with both paypal and kickstarter pending on which is easier to work with. Investers will be billed monthly and don't worry this isn't a costly thing, but my goal is to make this magazine self funding.
The billing cycle is automatic for this but if you want to cancel at any time you have the option to do that. The investor feature will work like the subscribe feature. Investors is a monthly subscription, though the magazine is tri-annual. They will have the option to be getting a book by any of the alumni each month. Some are from Ray Nelson's work too and others will be some of Terry Vinson's current or back catalog. Investors will also be seeing some of this go into the AD1436.org an organization that helps develop creative writing programs for young people wanting to make being an author their career choice. Investors will give this company the means to make public appearences outside of Illinois, and pay for the table at conventions to help promote the lesser known membes of the roster further. This is separate from subscribers. The site I also work with does membership dues every three months and the investors will also be covering this as well as what comes out of my own pocket. The ones that are yearly investors I will match it with my own money pending on the package. For the titles, they're chosen at random in the hardcover form. Investors will be seeing a copy of Quakes And Storms in their snail mail inbox. Also paying for some of the contributors who are in the Great Lakes Area to travel to appearences as well to areas outside of The Midwest. Ray of Grigori 3 right now is in the studio, and investors I will be using the money wisely for everything related to the imprint and the magazine. This will also help me with my duties as a heavy metal promoter which is a part time gig for me.
Investors will also see copies of upcoming projects in the print format too. If you're an investor, I personally wish you thank you for the support. This will also help me go into the studio with a full personnel to cut an audio story on CD. A new never before released story no less. Investors will also see a CD copy of the new story when it's done. I am as an editor and publisher 100% DIY because I design everything with the equipment I have in house. Investors will be helping me upgrade equipment to make the magazine even stronger as time goes on. I don't have ads in the magazine because it will distract the reader from the meat within the pages. I want to dip into my bank account much less than I want to and want to make sure the authors are paid well on the editor's choice bracket. Global Investers, everything here will be done in United States Dollars.