Question to my readers.

[jolantru]

If I print Envisioning privately (using a local printing press), how many do you think I should print?

Likewise, how many of you would like to do a swap with me? My book for your stories, your music, your art etc?

Or you don't mind paying (5 Sing Dollars) via Paypal?

Ideas? Thoughts?

Comments

[delfinnium]

Swap! :D

And the local printing press - it'd do it? Which press is it? :D :D :D

[nyarlathotep]

Not via paypal. Paypal and I hate each other.

Just saying.

[jolantru]

Just an ordinary printer - not sure which one though, it's one of my husband's contacts. Nary a word from the publishers.

[jolantru]

Okay. Noted.

[delfinnium]

D: That sucks. T_T The publishers all just want to publish 'literature' and textbooks.

Bastards.

[jolantru]

Yep. My emails to them have gone into a black hole.

The climate for SFF in Singapore just ain't friendly.

[delfinnium]

aww. :( It's sucky. They only want Catherine Lim type stories. ><

[jolantru]

*nods* Or self-help books, business books etc.

[delfinnium]

because Singaporeans don't have folk tales, escapist stories, or legends, or myths...

[jolantru]

I believe there are the few of us who know that folk tales, escapist stories and myths still ring true. Check out "The Memory Tree" (scroll down my entries). :)

[delfinnium]

yeah. :D

Only they're not the publishers woe.

>.>

<.<

You should start a small press!

[jolantru]

True. Mmm.

I have been thinking about the small press thing. Might work, might work.

[delfinnium]

*would totally be able to submit a short story if you do*

[delfinnium]

Well. A straight fiction, not fantasy. *sigh*

[jolantru]

*chuckle* Let me work out the nitty-gritty first. I wrote an outline for the small press - need to go back and trash out the kinks again.

Would be awesome if you do. :) *bounce*

[delfinnium]

well, a couple of short stories! Two, maybe. sort of connected. And then I have another one... which needs some editing...

"Dear Hai Ling" is very Singaporean, but it's not SFF. :|

[jolantru]

Don't worry. Take your time. I still need to firm up the details and that might just take half a year (and August is my due date, so don't worry lah).

[delfinnium]

all my short stories are very experimental! weird huh? Or at least experimental by the workshop's standards anyway. I haven't a clue by what standards I'm messing around with POV or what KIND of POV I'm using, ut it's just fic. >.>

[jolantru]

Experimental is good. :)

[delfinnium]

:P