About this project
Noir Nation aims to create a journal of crime fiction supported by an interactive community-building Web site. The Web site will also feature short original works of film noir.
We decided to pursue a digital platform because there are many places in the world with roads that are difficult to travel, which lead sometimes to poorly stocked bookstores and libraries.
Noir Nation: International Journal of Crime Fiction would be delivered electronically anywhere in the world that can receive either cable or wireless communications signals.
The magazine will be professionally edited and designed so that readers can engage immediately with the writing and art and the ideas they convey rather than having to overcome natty typos and badly formatted paragraphs that slow the velocity of their enjoyment.
Why crime noir? There is currently no periodic publication on an international scale satisfying readers' hunger for works of well-wrought literary fiction that explore the dark side of human experience, and that does so while pursuing its own aesthetic ends, rather than the legitimate but sometimes competing interests of the marketing departments of commercial publishing houses.
To accomplish our goals, we will rely on local and internationally based writers and visual artists and graphic designers to create, edit, and lay out the magazine in a format that will be delivered to e-book reading devices, including the Kindle, the iPad, and smartphones. This venture will be supported by a Web site that will invite bloggers and other writers to share information and commentary about developments in the noir and crime writing community. A keen eye and a good rapport with readers and artists will ensure that Noir Nation will have a steady supply of the best crime fiction being written today.
The money you are pledging is for the design, layout, cover art, illustrations, photography, and production costs of the journal, conversion to EPUB, writer and artist stipends, work for hire, as well as copyrighting to ensure the rights of individual writers and artists are protected, purchase of an ISSN, and for any coding and design work required to ensure successful delivery to most if not all e-book reading devices currently available in the market, but especially those most commonly used in developing nations.
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This project reached the deadline without achieving its funding goal on July 6, 2011.
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A rubber mouse pad with the Noir Nation Logo and a Year's Subscription (Two Issues)
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A 12-ounce stoneware coffee mug with the Noir Nation Logo, a mouse pad with the journal's logo, and a Year's Subscription (Two Issues),
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Your name appears as a supporter in a special section of the First Issue gratefully acknowledging your support of the project, a coffee mug and a mouse pad with the Noir Nation Logo, and a Year's Subscription (Two Issues)
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Your name appears as a supporter in a special section of Issues No. 1 AND 2, gratefully acknowledging your support of the project, a coffee mug and mouse pad with the Noir Nation Logo, and a Year's Subscription (Two Issues)
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A special invitation to the Noir Nation magazine launch in New York City, Your name appears as a supporter in a special section of Issues No. 1 AND 2, gratefully acknowledging your support of the project, a coffee mug and mouse pad with the Noir Nation Logo, and a Year's Subscription (Two Issues).
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Signed limited edition art or photo print on archival paper created by a Noir Nation artist, a special invitation to the Noir Nation magazine launch in New York City, your name appears as a supporter in a special section of Issues No. 1 AND 2, gratefully acknowledging your support of the project, a coffee mug and mouse pad with the Noir Nation Logo, and a Year's Subscription (Two Issues).
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Your name will be listed as a PATRON in the masthead of the first two issues, a special invitation to a champagne dinner at the National Arts Club in New York City, a FRAMED signed limited edition art or photo print on archival paper created by a Noir Nation artist, a special invitation to the Noir Nation magazine launch in New York City, a coffee mug and mouse pad with the Noir Nation Logo, and a Year's Subscription (Two Issues).
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Your name will be listed as a PATRON in the masthead of Four issues, a special invitation to a champagne dinner at the National Arts Club in New York City, a FRAMED signed limited edition art or photo print on archival paper created by a Noir Nation artist, a dedicated signed copy of SHORT, Cortright McMeel's debut novel with St. Martin's Press, a special invitation to the Noir Nation magazine launch in New York City, a coffee mug and mouse pad with the Noir Nation Logo, and a Year's Subscription (Two Issues) of the journal.
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Noir Nation is a new journal of high quality international crime fiction that includes graphic novels, essays, and author interviews. The Journal will advance works of the literary imagination that explore the darker geographies of human experience.
THE EDITORS
EDDIE VEGA - a graduate of Columbia University's graduate creative writing and journalism programs, Eddie works closely with international firms, writers, and artists to publish electronic trade books and journals in the areas of comedy, crime noir, romance fiction, and other popular genres. His freelance news writing and photography have appeared in the Washington Post, T.V. Guide, Backstage Magazine, Billboard Magazine, and other news venues. His creative writing has been widely published in textbooks, anthologies, and literary journals including Parnassus, The Brooklyn Review, and River Styx. He served as fiction editor of the debut issue of Murdaland: Crime Fiction for the 21st Century. He lives in South Brooklyn.
CORTRIGHT MCMEEL - Cort was the founder and co-publisher of the award-winning literary magazine Murdaland: Crime Fiction for the 21st Century. His first novel, SHORT, was published by St. Martin's Press in December 2010. He has published stories in The Mississippi Review, The Gettysburg Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, and Plots With Guns. A graduate of the Columbia Writing Program, he was awarded runner up for the Playboy College Fiction Contest. Cort lives in Denver with his wife and two children.
ALAN WARD THOMAS - Was the editor of Optimism Monthly, an international journal of Poetry, Prose and Art, in Prague, from 1994 to 1998. He has a degree in Physics from the University of Oklahoma and a forthcoming Masters of Secondary Education from The College of New Jersey. He teaches mathematics at an international school, where he has served as director of the math department for 10 years and as a senior manager. His most recent publication was in the anthology, The Return of Kral Majales, Prague's International Literary Renaissance 1990-2010. Besides writing and publishing, his current interests are in 21st Century learning techniques and Universal Design for Learning, the balance of technology and human interaction in the classroom, and the impacts of the internet and transhumanism on psychology and the learning process. He is married, has two young sons, and plays guitar and sings in a band. He lives and works in Prague.
