Another Sky Press Forums Topic: Introductions

Another Sky Press Forums Topic: Introductions http://www.anothersky.org/asp/forums/ Another Sky Press Forums Topic: Introductions en Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:21:26 +0000 Gally187 on "Introductions" http://www.anothersky.org/asp/forums/topic/introductions#post-451 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:34:45 +0000 Gally187 451@http://www.anothersky.org/asp/forums/ Hey- Thanks for getting this thread started, it was a nice way to meet you all. I am kind of late on this but I hope you guys will read it. I discovered Another Sky through reading the Chuck Palahniuk website and heard they were doing some great things. I read Click, which by the way Kris, was f'n real. After reading Click, I decided that I would try to be a part of something great like this and submit some of the material I have been working on lately. Still haven't heard back, but we'll see. I am 24 years old and believe or not I am a Big Four Accountant from the East Coast of the states. I have been writing feverishly of late. I wrote mostly screenplays in college but I feel a novel is a more direct form of getting my message out. I travel all over the country every week for my job, so the material is of constant flow. I am basically trying to get my start and am writing in the mass amount of time my firm gives me to study for the CPA exam. Oops! I was looking for a place to submit some work and found this. It would be nice to get to know you all. Best, Ryan Andrez on "Introductions" http://www.anothersky.org/asp/forums/topic/introductions#post-450 Fri, 02 Nov 2007 01:21:37 +0000 Andrez 450@http://www.anothersky.org/asp/forums/ Hola, everyone... I'm Andrez Bergen, an expat Aussie muso/journalist living in Tokyo, Japan - I stumbled across this website just last month, and love the ideology and subversive inclinations at play here. It's an added bonus that the people behind it are way cool as well! Keep up the brilliant work... ;) Craig on "Introductions" http://www.anothersky.org/asp/forums/topic/introductions#post-202 Sat, 14 Oct 2006 13:19:58 +0000 Craig 202@http://www.anothersky.org/asp/forums/ It's a brisk Saturday afternoon here in New York, and I'm about to begin my Falling From the Sky editing tasks for the day, but I thought I would drop by here first to say hello. As for me, you can read my (brief) history under "about us / press." As for my involvement with the press, that began back in March when Krist dropped me a line about Another Sky and asked if he could see the manuscript for my first novel, "Ache." From there we reconnected and Krist asked me to cross the threshold and join up with the press. Of course, Another Sky being a magnificent idea, I didn't hesitate. As I told Krist last week during his quick stay in New York, I am elated to be helping out however and whenever possible, and to be the editor of what is shaping up to be an incredible short story anthology. It's been a pleasure, as well, to meet a host of new people with creative minds and a passion for the written word. -Craig <a href="http://www.urbanoutlaw.com" rel="nofollow">www.urbanoutlaw.com</a> Kirsty on "Introductions" http://www.anothersky.org/asp/forums/topic/introductions#post-187 Thu, 05 Oct 2006 12:25:09 +0000 Kirsty 187@http://www.anothersky.org/asp/forums/ Wow, it's fascinating to learn a little about you all...thanks for posting and let's keep up the intros! They're so interesting...how people found this place, what they write, what they read, what they had for tea...and I can always be relied upon to remind you about tea, Kristopher - I am English, after all! ;) All this talk of asteroids and groking stuff and outsider art just keeps me coming back to this forum - you're all VERY distracting you know!! :P kristopher on "Introductions" http://www.anothersky.org/asp/forums/topic/introductions#post-183 Wed, 04 Oct 2006 16:41:54 +0000 kristopher 183@http://www.anothersky.org/asp/forums/ It's amazing how many incredible people I've met through Click... and more importantly, how many friends I've made, both online and 'in real life' (though I think that distinction is blurred). This whole experience has been wonderful to me - and as proof I can point to any of the individuals who have posted here (and many that haven't). And thanks for spreading the word about Click, and for, well, helping to make all this happen. It's big, and it's getting bigger. I'm still totally blown away by the Mungbeing review I just got today (<a href="http://www.mungbeing.com/issue_10.html?page=79&sub_id=575#575">http://www.mungbeing.com/issue_10.html?page=79&sub_id=575#575</a>) as well as some other wonderful things going on in my life... and it's good to know there are people out there who care too. Thanks. It means a lot. (oh, and if there's ever a delay in me responding to one of your emails, know I'll eventually get to it, grin). And Kirsty, thanks for making me think of tea - it's kinda chilly today and tea's the perfect thing. Mmm. localroger on "Introductions" http://www.anothersky.org/asp/forums/topic/introductions#post-175 Mon, 02 Oct 2006 17:13:36 +0000 localroger 175@http://www.anothersky.org/asp/forums/ Hi Kirsty, I'm Roger Williams. Since a lot of other people are also named Roger Williams I go by 'localroger' on the interweb. I write a fair amount of stuff for kuro5hin.org. I didn't actually find AnotherSky; Kristopher found me. Sometime before AnotherSky went online I put my own novel on the web and then wrote a kuro5hin story about the relative success of the tip jar; that post was linked all over the place. Kristopher wanted to let me know my experiment had given him some guidance for his own, and I have to say he's taken the basic idea to a whole new level. Click is a fantastic book and the production values are also excellent, particularly for a base price competitive with traditional trade paperback prices. I have my own book available in hardcopy through Lulu and while I'm pretty happy with the job they do, it's also quite a bit more expensive than Kristopher's base price. I think AnotherSky is a fascinating experiment; if it works out it will have exciting implications for the future of publishing. This is a time of upheaval for content creators because it's never been easier for a book or song or story to find a huge audience, and the oligarchy of gatekeepers who determine who can and can't be published is being undermined in a thousand different ways. At the same time all content creators, including the ones who thought they had been established by those same gatekeepers, are wondering how they will pay the bills in the coming decades. Kristopher is trying to answer that for them. (As for the gatekeepers themselves, they might as well start looking for alternate employment now. They are dinosaurs watching the fireball of the K-T Internet Asteroid getting ready to slam into their world.) andrew on "Introductions" http://www.anothersky.org/asp/forums/topic/introductions#post-174 Mon, 02 Oct 2006 14:45:34 +0000 andrew 174@http://www.anothersky.org/asp/forums/ I'm andrew. I stumbled upon Another Sky by way of <a href="http://warrenellis.com">Warren Ellis</a>. I've not read any of Warren Ellis' printed work -- my only foray into comics being the works of Neil Gaiman -- but his weblog is a daily read. I think I happened upon him in the first place via a MeFi link to an essay he wrote on creativity. I think, but I can't find the link. Which, to digress, is a shame as it was a damn good essay. Anyways... Instantly it struck me that Another Sky was a particularly worthwhile and right endeavour. Like, it really caught my attention and imagination. I'm deeply unsatisfied in my professional life and what I'd love to be doing is something to do with words and images and Web. I care deeply about writing, books, the Web and communication; enterprises like Another Sky are right at the intersection of all those things. Not just that, but it's tackling head-on the issues that threaten the publishing (and media) establishment. I've read Click. I loved it. I can only get into fiction -- books, tv, film -- that acknowledges and plays games with its own status as fiction. I'm afraid I'm not bright enough to do the lit-crit thing; I grok stuff or not. Click made me stop every few paragraphs and think. It's that good. Go read it. My dead-tree reading lately has been the later volumes of Neil Gaiman's Sandman the 4th volume of which is stunningly good, 3 so far of his 6-part Eternals, Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma, Bukowski's Post Office. I'm still searching for a PDF of Factotum, being unwilling to pay the twice-normal-paperback price it is in the bookstores. Every novel by Haruki Murakami I have read has made me cry. I guess I'm basically mainstream, but just a little off centre. Like, no one has heard of Neil Gaiman, but he packs out every book signing. The popular fringe! I'm not a writerly type. I probably like best to hang out, online at least, with literate geeks. I did study English at university but I remain convinced that: a) the Arts Faculty only passed me to justify its existence by producing graduates; b) literary criticism is a nasty, incestuous thing. Music wise, I listen to everything from my old Led Zeppelin to blues to whatever. Lately, it's trance mix. 2-to-3-hour sets by Nick Warren, Sasha and John Digweed. Why did I wait until age 40 to discover this? Why does a man who does not and cannot dance, not ever, love this stuff so? What did I have for tea tonight? Some pasta with reheated vegetables. I love food, I love to cook, but some nights leftovers are where it's at. Two nights ago, I barbecued fish flillets and capsicum-onion-asparagus mix, porterhouse steak for my son, halloumi cheese, steamed some fresh broad (fava) beans, dressed it all with parsley-thyme-lemon-oil. Magic! My cooking, like my writing, is what I term "earthy, peasant fare": rough, simple, flawed but satisfying. Jamie Oliver's older, uglier, less-talented brother ;-) If truth be known, I could practise for years and become rather less rough, but there's too many other things to grab my attention for that. barcodeart on "Introductions" http://www.anothersky.org/asp/forums/topic/introductions#post-169 Sun, 01 Oct 2006 17:52:16 +0000 barcodeart 169@http://www.anothersky.org/asp/forums/ never a better stumble. so how did i? upon click & another sky press? i love outsider art. so i collect outsider art. we really do collect what we love. family & friends included. on ebay. bidding on outsider art. more bidding than buying. which is actually good, as most of the time i'm quite poor. if only, huh? stumbles in order of their appearance: browsing bidding ebay. outsider art. search. who the hell did that? jesse reno. wonderful. amazing. jesse reno. push tongue back into, close mouth. bid. bid. eventually buy. 'visit my site.' thx i think i will. this just in: cover of click... reno site to another sky press site. click (literally). order. read. contact. submit. & kristopher young posed for a picture at that gallery in that city with kevin bacon. etc. etc. so that's what brought me to another sky press... innovative. creative. imaginative. collective. ever so glad we met! ab fab to meet you all! toodles! need movie pillow sleep. peace. -chris <a href="http://www.deadclownart.com">www.deadclownart.com</a> superk on "Introductions" http://www.anothersky.org/asp/forums/topic/introductions#post-166 Sun, 01 Oct 2006 08:00:58 +0000 superk 166@http://www.anothersky.org/asp/forums/ kristopher wrote:<blockquote> superk, that's still one of my favorite quotes from a reader... thanks, it made my day again just reading it again. I'm going to check out Nadja; I had never heard of it but a brief look into it made me want to read it. And from what I can tell, it's a distinct compliment being compared to Breton, so thank you for that as well. </blockquote> yes the fact that we don't really know when it's night or day and that thoughts seem to pass from one soul to the other is reminiscent of Breton's way of writing... Stories like "Les dernières nuits de Paris' by Philippe Soupault are also similar, albeit less surrealist (although Soupault is one of three original surrealists with Breton and Aragon). Kirsty on "Introductions" http://www.anothersky.org/asp/forums/topic/introductions#post-165 Sun, 01 Oct 2006 07:58:58 +0000 Kirsty 165@http://www.anothersky.org/asp/forums/ I certainly will, Kristopher! I ordered my copy today, so hopefully it shouldn't be long before I get my hands on it ;D Don't forget to tell me what you think of Taking Back Tom when you get around to reading it. Like you, I often read books friends recommend...and we're always swapping books, too. I've found some gems that way. kristopher on "Introductions" http://www.anothersky.org/asp/forums/topic/introductions#post-163 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 21:48:57 +0000 kristopher 163@http://www.anothersky.org/asp/forums/ superk, that's still one of my favorite quotes from a reader... thanks, it made my day again just reading it again. I'm going to check out Nadja; I had never heard of it but a brief look into it made me want to read it. And from what I can tell, it's a distinct compliment being compared to Breton, so thank you for that as well. I've been reading up a storm lately - all books that fans of Click have told me to check out for one reason or another. I've always been that way to a degree; I prefer to read books other people recommend to me than choosing one for myself simply because it forces me to expand my horizons. Not to mention, it's resulted in me reading one hell of a lot of fantastic books I never would have thought to pick up otherwise. I'm interested in reading your story, Kirsty - I'll check it out soon. Congrats, by the way. And let me know what you think of Click when you finish it... superk on "Introductions" http://www.anothersky.org/asp/forums/topic/introductions#post-161 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:56:14 +0000 superk 161@http://www.anothersky.org/asp/forums/ Hi there Kirsty! I also learned about Click! through Slashdot around July I believe. I started reading Click! online then gave a shout on the forum. I then started to discuss all sorts of stuff with kristopher, a certain relationship was established. We then exchanged books: he sent me Click!, I sent him Une Histoire Vraie (A True Story), which is a copyleft collective fiction I put together in 2001. I don't have a lof of time to read unfortunately. But I'm halfway through Click! and my original impression (http://www.anothersky.org/forum/index.php?topic=17.0) is still good: "Click is visibly passionate, deranged and sexy. No doubt about it." It reminds me a lot of Nadja by André Breton, but without the surrealist propaganda ;) I've self-published in two collectives for which I was the editor. Now I populate my blog with fibs (http://gottabook.blogspot.com/2006/04/fib.html) and I write short texts in French and English: <a href="http://lkm696.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">http://lkm696.blogspot.com</a> I think I should add an English section on my blog since most writers I meet on the Web can't read French... Who's next? Kirsty on "Introductions" http://www.anothersky.org/asp/forums/topic/introductions#post-158 Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:05:01 +0000 Kirsty 158@http://www.anothersky.org/asp/forums/ Hey, I'm really new to this forum and I notice I'm around the 40-something-ish person to join. Now, I've read all about the interesting people at Another Sky on the website, but I'm curious about the rest of you. How did you find out about Another Sky? Have you read Click yet? What do you hold close to your heart? And what are you having for your tea tonight? All these things, and more, might make for a nice little getting-to-know-you introduction ;) Since I was presumptous enough to start this thread, I'll go first... I found Another Sky through an article on Slash-Dot, which my boyfriend reads avidly so he passed it straight to me. He is a very patient man in that he has long put up with my 'other life' as a writer. I'm usually buried deep in my latest novel or short story and looking for ways to get my stuff out there. I put all my work up on my website so that people can download things for free as and when they like (I advise them not to do it whilst eating their lunch...some of my stuff is a bit gory :P). I love reading too and think my taste is pretty wide. I'm waiting to get hold of a copy of Click as I haven't read it yet. I'm 30, I live in Cambridge, England and find that my day job gets in the way of my far more productive creative life. I love heavy metal and all things that raaawk. And I'm making stew for tea. I love cooking and this year I'm planning to make a pumpkin-themed feast for my mates for Halloween. That's me...how about you?