Kick In to Support THE MAGAZINE Kickstarter!
(This is reposted from my Snip, Burn, Solder Blog--'cause I figured Mojonauts might be down with this project, too.)
The Magazine--a really excellent digital periodical--is doing a Kickstarter to fund an annual print edition. You should *really* consider kicking in $30, like, immediately to get a copy. Barring that, $15 is a great deal--gets you a one-year subscription at about 40 percent off--and even a buck or five helps.
That annual print edition--which is really the brass ring on this one--is gonna be a big, fat hardcover with 130 of the most-notable articles, color glossy pictures, the whole shebang. Here's a layout preview--which happens to feature the first article I wrote for them, about the world's greatest aftermarket "lens" for doing old-school pinhole photography with catching-edge consumer-grade digital cameras. Backers who come in at $30 or more (as of this writing) will get the hardcover, plus DRM-free digital editions of the book. (You can back at a lower level and still get some pretty sweet swag, though. For example, if you come in at $15 you get a one-year subscription, which normally retails for ~$20--and costs, like, $24 if you buy it monthly, like I do, because I'm a damn rube).
If you're one of this "I Give a Damn About the Future of Long-Form Journalism and Think Pieces," then you should be backing this project; The Magazine is basically the only forward looking periodical I've come across. They pay well, and the editors are meticulously ethical, extremely scrupulous, and great to work with--every story becomes the best possible version of itself.
Also, *DISCLOSURE* if this project funds, I'll get a reprint payment of a couple hundred dollars. They don't *have* to do this--not with the contract I signed; they've already paid me for the work. They are *choosing* to do this because it's the right thing to do. Like I said, if there's a future in this non-fiction thing, The Magazine is that future.
