This is what happens when we really focus. With the goal of getting just about everything for I9 wrapped up a week early - thereby enabling us to get as far ahead on Issue 10 as possible before WorldCon - I forbade myself most of my usual distractions and really threw myself into it. Not counting short breaks, I probably spent a good 10 hours on CG ( Read more... )

So I haven’t posted in a couple days. Sorry about that - real life has kept me very busy. (Is anyone still reading this blog anyway?)

the Print edition of Issue 9 is set and submitted. Unfortunately we got one bio too late to include, and had to omit it. But that bio will be in all the other editions of the issue.

Speaking of other editions, I ( Read more... )

ONE DAY LEFT!!!

Just one day left to submit your Alternate History stories!

Just one day left to vote for your favorite Flash Fiction story!

Today, we were utterly flabbergasted to discover that the proof copy of the Issue 8 print edition arrived! From submitting the files and requesting a proof to its arrival took just four days, by far the ( Read more... )

I think - and I’m knocking wood as I type this - that we can consider ourselves “caught up” on Issue 8.

Today I went from zero to finished with the .prc edition. I also went through the website page by page, found the pages that needed minor alterations on Release Day that I’d missed, and got them all prepped (I have the HTML written out in MS Word ( Read more... )

The pdf edition of Issue 8 is pretty much done. I got the entire thing reformatted to 8.5″ x 11″. But I realized that I hadn’t properly sized the cover to 8.5 x 11, so I couldn’t do the merging of the various pieces (I was at work). I’ll do the sizing over the weekend (it doesn’t take long) and merge the pieces when I get back to my day job on ( Read more... )

Since last night’s post was really an announcement about the release of Issue 7, I thought i should do an actual day-in-the-life post.

We ended up with almost exactly the same number of submissions as last month - 2 fewer to be precise. That’s not counting the submissions we received which are outside the size range we accept. The number of those ( Read more... )

…and therefore I will spare you the extensive rant about the 15 zillion different e-book formats. Suffice to say, I don’t think we have the time to produce a copy of each issue in enough formats to work on every portable device. So it looks like we’ll be offering 3 digital versions: for the Kindle, as a .PDF, and as a .prc (.prc is formatted for ( Read more... )

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There is one person who subscribed today whose Paypal email has refused to accept any email from us. If you subscribed this afternoon and haven’t received an email from us, please email cg@crossedgenres.com with a working email address! (I don’t want to post names ( Read more... )

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First: in less than an hour (where we are) It’ll be Earth Day! In recognition of this we’re offering an incentive to help keep Crossed Genres afloat and avoid killing trees at the same time: For Wednesday only, get a year’s subscription to the E-Book of Crossed ( Read more... )

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Sometimes, things just don’t go the way you planned them to.

It started when I got to my day job and went to merge the PDF issue together. I realized that I had all black-and-white images for inside the magazine. The Print edition is all-b&w inside, but the PDF ( Read more... )