Icewalker
2010-12-04, 12:13 AM
Hey there. I haven't been around the Arts and Crafts section much, although I lurked around for a while at one point.
Anyways! My friend and I are going to begin the printing and distribution of a pulp fiction magazine in a little under a year. I have loads and loads to say about this, simply to talk about my work here on the wonderful forums, as well as probably to ask if anybody here wants to write stories for us, however first we have some logistical and legal issues to work out.
Now, I know that I cannot ask for specific legal advice. What I would like to ask for is anybody who has had a similar experience in the past: has anybody around here published, especially self-published? We need to work out the details of how that works, especially with regards to taxes and whatnot. We intend one of our vectors for sale to be a number of distributors just hanging out all over the country (this is US) with a box full of issues, selling them on the street.
A quick run down of what it is, for those curious (I will have a much more detailed thread on this in some time, I don't know how long). The center of each monthly issue will be a comic/graphic novel being written by myself and a friend, in a steampunk setting, primarily following what pretty much amounts to a freelance adventurer airship crew. There will be about 10 pages of this continuing story in each issue, which will also have 30-40 pages of unrelated fiction short stories, articles, and the like, from various authors.
Anyways! My friend and I are going to begin the printing and distribution of a pulp fiction magazine in a little under a year. I have loads and loads to say about this, simply to talk about my work here on the wonderful forums, as well as probably to ask if anybody here wants to write stories for us, however first we have some logistical and legal issues to work out.
Now, I know that I cannot ask for specific legal advice. What I would like to ask for is anybody who has had a similar experience in the past: has anybody around here published, especially self-published? We need to work out the details of how that works, especially with regards to taxes and whatnot. We intend one of our vectors for sale to be a number of distributors just hanging out all over the country (this is US) with a box full of issues, selling them on the street.
A quick run down of what it is, for those curious (I will have a much more detailed thread on this in some time, I don't know how long). The center of each monthly issue will be a comic/graphic novel being written by myself and a friend, in a steampunk setting, primarily following what pretty much amounts to a freelance adventurer airship crew. There will be about 10 pages of this continuing story in each issue, which will also have 30-40 pages of unrelated fiction short stories, articles, and the like, from various authors.