What Good is a Byline if It’s Too Small to Read?
January 31, 2008 by Deborah Ng
Filed under Entertainment
Here’s a new one:
seeking submissions for tiny zines
Reply to: tinybylines@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-01-24, 4:43PM PST
I am looking for submissions for a series of tiny zines I am making in the upcoming months. How tiny you ask? About 2” by 1.5”
They need to be this small because I’m putting them in individual bubbles for a vending machine.
Submissions can be about anything- personal experiences, contemplations, poems, fictional stories, tiny things, really big things, anything you want. And the length of the piece isn’t that important, they will be bound differently depending on the length and content of your submission.
This is an unpaid position, however, full credit will be given to you including your name, and whatever else you’d like to add- email address, website, bio, etc. Unless you’d like to remain anonymous then that’s fine too.
Please email the submission in a Word document.
Thanks!
- Location: se portland
- it’s NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests
- Compensation: no pay
So in essence this guy is making up magazines so tiny they’re going to fit in those vending machine bubbles, the kind holding bouncy balls and mini plastic jewelry. The "Tiny Zines" won’t follow any particular format, basically any crap you want to send him in exchange for a byline.
WTF???
Who is going to want to waste their quarters on that? If I’m buying from a vending machine it better be something good. I’m certainly not purchasing random too small to read printed matter. I can see why he’s only paying his writers with an unreadable byline. His idea is so ass he’s not going to make any money from it.
And he can’t just write these unreadable things himself becauuuuuse…
At least with a fortune cookie, you get a cookie. We all need a cookie sometimes. He could probably get some writers to pay him! I heard that some writers see a job listed at a certain cretinous price and then write and say, “I will do it for less.” We are programming ourselves to be broke losers!
This is the strangest business idea I’ve ever heard of. But a good example of why you should have to pass a sanity test before posting on Craigslist.
Oh no, let’s get all the loons in one place so we know who they are. I like them out in the open where they’re readily identifiable. They don’t call it Crazies’ List for nuthin’.
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