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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mythusmage" data-source="post: 2649366" data-attributes="member: 571">Getting OrganizedYeah, the previous post is a bit disorganized, so I'm redoing the announcement.What: A Little Dice Music, an APA for the discussion of roleplaying games.What is an APA?APA stands for amateur press association, which originally showcased printing technique. These days it refers to a magazine that compiles APAzines into monthly, bimonthly, or quarterly mailings.What is an APAzine?An APAzine is a personal periodical meant for inclusion in an APA. It is a way for the author to express himself and/or comment on the APAzines appearing in the previous issue of the APA.A Little Dice Music is a way for the contributors to present RPG material, and to comment on what others have contributed in a more structered venue than a bulletin board, but less formal than a professional publication. It is also a way for contributors to showcase their writing and/or art.Contributing an APAzine and Cost to ContributeAn APAzine must be at least 500 words in length. About a page. The maximum length is 20,000 words. Enough for a sizable esasy, write-up, whatever. The APA itself will have no more than 200,000 words at its largest. Include a zine title by all means. A table of contents is allowed, but will cut into word count, so keep track of it.A contribution should be sent in as a text file. I can handle .doc etc, but it'll all get changed over to AppleWorks anyway, so your formatting et al will be lost.Send as an email attachment, unless other arrangements have been made.Since I have no printing costs to consider I am not charging contributors to contribute. Were this a print publication then contributors would be charged $2.00 US a page to defray the cost of printing.Contributing ArtI need cover art, I need interior illustrations. In either case I'm looking for clean black and white line art. Cover art should have room for APA title, month and year, and issue number. If at all possible send art that adresses that month's theme.For interior art I'm looking for full page, half page, quarter page, and eighth page art. In the case of half page and quarter page art the piece can either by oriented horizontally or vertically. You are welcome to include art with your APAzine, along with instructions on how to include said art.CopyrightAll contributions will be copyright their respective contributor. With the exception of any third-party OGC, which remains their copyright. All contributions will be published with permission. A Little Dice Music makes no claim regarding any contribution. Language, Spelling, and GrammarA Little Dice Music is an English language publication, so contributions must be in English. If English is not your native language then I heartily recommend taking extra care with your APAzine. If English is your native language then I especially recommend taking extra care with your APAzine. Exhibiting a poor command of the language, native speaker or no, puts you in a poor light, and that you don't need.Use standard American or British spelling. No l33t sp3ak.Use standard grammar. In addition, no profanity or obscenity. I reserve the right to determine obscenity.Any contribution that blatantly violates these rules will not be included in the APA.Feuds, Flamewars, and TrollingDon't. No personal attacks or flames, no inciting personal attacks or flames. Feuds are another matter. As long as the disagreement remains respectful and a substantial discussion I'm fine with it. But once it degenerates into name calling and insults that's it.DeadlineThe deadline for each issue is the 20th of the month prior, or 200,000 words whichever comes first. For the first issue the deadline is November 20th.Publication DateEach issue will be released the first of the month. December 1st in the case of the first issue.Contact InformationInclude an email address at the very least. That way I can send you the download link when the issue is ready.. Snail mail address, web site, and/or phone number in case I need to get in touch with you some other way. Though such are not absolute requirements.FormatA Little Dice Music will be published in PDF. 8 1/2 by 11 with 1 inch inner margins and 1/2 inch upper, lower, and outer margins. Since I use a PDF printer driver all text will be in Palatino. Bookmarks are not guaranteed, I still haven't figured that part out. I will include a table of contents. An index if I can.For things like headers, italics, tables and the like include the following tags:-b-: Bold-i-: Italics-u-: Underline-st-: Strike Through-h1-: Header One (section)-h2-: Header Two (sub-section)-h3-: Header Three (etc.)-h4-: Header Four (etc.)-title-: Zine Title-table-: Table-text box-: Text Box-ogc-: Open Game Content (Please clearly indicate Open Game Content in your document, whether it comes from another source or is original, and if from another source the identity of that source. Makes proper attribution in Section 15 of the OGL a lot easier.)-art box-: Art Box (be sure to include dimensions in points (72 points per inch).)-sb-: Side Bar-fs='N'-: font Size (I'm using 10 point type. You may want a smaller size for all or part of your APAzine. I recommend just a part since I'd like a consistent look to the APA.)Be sure to close all tags so I'll know where the special formatting ends.As time goes by I'll be adding more tags. "-f='font name'-" for instance when I get a real PDF application.CostFor contributors, free. Both for issue contributed to and the following issue. For non-contributors, $7.95 U.S.DistributionElectronic at first. If this takes off I'll look into print distribution.FinisAnd that's it. Obviously things can change. When they do I'll update this document. Send your contributions to <a href="mailto:mythusmage@mythusmage.com">mythusmage@mythusmage.com</a> as an email attachment. I hope to hear from you.</blockquote>

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