How Many Product do you plan to release this year?

[afstanton]

I'm curious about the processes people use for such high volume. How many people do you have working on this? A few authors, an artist or two, a layout person, all in assembly line style? Or is it possible for just one person to put out such a high volume solo?

 

[Warden]

Most short PDFs don't take that much time at all -- they're the equivalent of a chapter or section of a full book, so it's merely the time that it takes to come up with the idea and put it to words. If your idea is to come up with a collection of 12 related feats, it's simply a matter of spending a couple of hours coming up with the twelve. Editing, layout, and the like are normally done by the designer as well.

Larger projects, in our case, does involve multiple people. Half of our upcoming releases involve our Overlord Teams, each one comprised of an author, editor, layout artist, interior artist only working on material for one particular nation. This allows us to come up with five PDFs at the same time and release them simultaneously.

 

[Cathix]

I'm curious about the processes people use for such high volume. How many people do you have working on this? A few authors, an artist or two, a layout person, all in assembly line style? Or is it possible for just one person to put out such a high volume solo?

Our company was born in March of this year. We've got off to such a rip-roaring start that both my partner, Sean, and I keep figuring out - in the nick of time - oh, right 'we need an editor for this, quick' or 'hey did you get an artist yet for this?'. Hehe, I thought it would be easy...

I don't think it's possible for one person to put out a high volume unless that person has a partner or spouse who's bringing home money for the household, therefore affording the start-up publisher time to bury himself/herself in their work. Even then, I don't think any one can produce too successfully in a vacuum. A personal project, perhaps - something one's been working on for a while. But product after product needs other minds to stay fresh.

I do all of the layout for Dog Soul's books - for this year, that makes up most of what our profit will be. I just finished a book for Emerald Press where I wrote most of it, did the layout, and did a good portion of the art. *tear rolls down cheek* I never wanna do that again!

Dog Soul's aiming to put out about fifteen books this year, and we're not going to have a whole year to do it, obviously. I just ran some ads on this site and a couple of others looking for writers and artists, and we've been lucky as hell to have attracted talented people who work fast!

 

[V_Shane]

Artifacts of the Arcane, and Arcane Monthly (RPGnow-VShane)

I am currently finishing up the first monthly periodical by the middle of this month that will be hosted on RPGnows free section (first issue only) which will include short story by a published author, illustrated, general Arcane news,maps, and two or more free clip art never published for both the gamer and the publisher. From this point I'll be doing that every month to fill in the in-between times for Arcane Publishers Edtns. And yes, new fonts coming!

Shane
Wacom Knight Studio

 

[annadobritt]

Can never have too many interesting fonts or new clipart for that matter.