A project that I have been working on, with the help of a whole slew of wonderful people, has finally seen the light of day. Steampunk Tales strives to be the modern version of the classic pulp fiction magazine, brought to you with all kinds of retro-futuristic goodness on the iPhone. The concept from the beginning was to sell short-form exciting pulp fiction at an incredible value. Issue #1 features 10 stories, each of which run between 4,000 - 11,000 words for $1.99(USD). I wanted to make something you could carry in your pocket and read while on line at the grocery store, during a commute or during a break at work.
We hit a bit of a rough patch during application approval. Pulp fiction inherently contains some amount of intense situations. The content typically isn't kittens wresting with balls of string. It took 5 rounds of submissions before we were approved. Asking award winning authors to change the content of their stories because they're not "rated G" enough for Apple is not a fun thing to do. Ultimately, the changes were minor and seemingly random. The application approval guidelines need to be made less ambiguous. All of us at Steampunk Tales eagerly await the release of iPhone OS 3.0 which will include parental controls. These controls should make approval of future editions of our e-zine a breeze. Future editions of Steampunk Tales will be released monthly.
Steampulp Publishing LLC has released the world's first electronic pulp fiction magazine created exclusively for iPhone and iPod Touch! Emulating the style of the pulp adventure magazines of the 1920s and '30s, Steampunk Tales contains first-run, original fiction written by an A+ list of award-winning authors. Issue #1 contains 10 stories, each running between 4,300 to 11,000 words, for the unbelievable price of only $1.99. Authors contributing to issue #1 include Jay Lake, Catherynne M. Valente, SatyrPhil Brucato and G.D. Falksen. The cover art was painted by popular artist Melita "missmonster" Curphy.
www.steampunktales.com
Here is some info of what is in the first issue: link
Buy it here on the iPhone App Store.
Congratulations my friend. I know you have been working on this for quite some time.
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