Super Flash Fiction is a free E-magazine featuring action art and flash fiction of extraordinary individuals in fantastic situations.
A New Magazine for a New World
Super Flash Fiction is a free E-magazine dedicated to
bringing you fantastic flash fiction and awesome action art. It is a new
publication and the first issue will be out in October of 2012. Each issue will
contain stories about extraordinary individuals in a modern day earth
environment. These individuals will range from super powered heroes and high
tech vigilantes, to magical mystics and beyond. There are no limits to what you
may find in our pages.
Super Flash Fiction Cityscape
Why We Need Your Help
Right now if you go to our website SuperFlashFiction.com you will see that we are
asking writers and artist to submit their works for free. The only thing they
get out of publishing with us is publishing credits and a bio in our magazine
and website. We want to pay our contributors. They are providing us with excellent
work and they deserve to be paid for it.
It was always our intention to become a paying magazine
after we built an audience and learned how to solicit advertisements for
funding, but due to the fact that we are not paying we have not had the response
from artist and writers we would like. Don't get me wrong, some of the
submissions we have gotten have been great and we are excited to publish them,
we would just like to see more come in. I have spoken to a lot of people in the
industry and I know that once we start paying our writers and artist we are
going to have a truly amazing magazine from launch, as opposed to the
alternative of slowly building a following in hopes of someday paying the
awesome folks whose work we publish.
The truth is a lot of great magazines fall apart because
they do not have the funding to make it through the first year.
A few of our contributors whose work will be appearing in
issue #1 of Super Flash Fiction this October along with their links:
$10 = You Get a Super Flash Fiction Postcard with a Signed
Thank You
$30 = A Cool SFF T-Shirt, A Hand Signed Postcard, and Your
Name on Our Website
$65 = An Awesome 4 x 11 inch Limited SFF Skyline Print &
All the Above
$90 = A Super Limited Edition Cover Print & All The
Above
$100 = You Become a Superhero in Your Own Story & Pick
Your Powers
$100 - $200 = You Can Advertise In Super Flash Fiction
$7,000 and how it will help.
$1,125 per issue times four issues will equal $4,500. This
money will be paid directly to our writers and artist.
Writers will be paid $25 per story for 300 to 500 words.
This is between 5 and 9 cents per word which qualifies our pay as professional
under Duotrope's pay standards. All of our stories will be original,
unpublished and creator owned.
Artist will be paid around $50 per page of art. This price
may fluctuate depending on the detail and coloring involved. A pencil sketch
would reasonably cost less than an inked and colored page. We may publish art
that has been previously published as long as the artist owns all rights to it.
Artist will retain the rights and originals to any work they submit or we commission
for our magazine. This gives them the
ability to sell their work for more money, sell prints of their work and it
helps us to afford them.
We will pay between $100 and $150 per cover. I am designing
the cover to issue #1 thus giving myself the right to offer prints of said
cover as a Kickstarter reward.
$2500 will be used to pay for the T-shirts, Prints, Shipping
and Handling, and the operation fees to Kickstarter for letting us use their
awesome crowd funding platform and Amazon for payment fees. Any money left out
of the $2500 (there will not be much if any) will be reinvested in stories and
art for the magazine.
We created this to give our subscribers and contributors an
idea of the type of format we will be publishing in. It also works to give our
backers an idea of how we will be E-published. This is a bare bones sample and does
not contain any art. All of the stories here are written by John B Badd, who will be
writing most or all of the Backers' Stories for that reward tier.
This is approximate at this time and some minor changes may be made to accommodate our screen printer.
Evolution of a Logo
John penciled this out, scanned it in then outlined it using GIMP
He filled it in and played with the shape with feedback from SFF's Facebook page.
He liked this shape. After more feedback it was determined multiple colors were needed to make it easy to read because a lot of folks surveyed said they thought it said "Uper" and not "Super". ;)
After many tries and much feedback we have the shape and colors you see today.
A cityscape was created from combining the skylines of thirteen cities from around the world and tracing their silhouettes. This was then combined with our logo using some of GIMP's (an awesome free graphic utility) cool lighting and shadowing features.
You will be listed on our Thank You web page with an optional link to your site.
Estimated delivery:
Oct 2012
Pledge $10 or more
3 backers
You will receive a hand signed thank you on a Super Flash Fiction post card plus your name on our Thank you web page with an optional link to your site.
(please add $5 for international shipping)
Estimated delivery:
Oct 2012
Pledge $30 or more
7 backers
You will receive an awesome Super Flash Fiction t-shirt with our skyline logo plus all of the above perks.
(please add $5 for XXL and XXXL)
(please add $5 for international shipping)
Estimated delivery:
Oct 2012
Pledge $65 or more
0 backers
Limited
(100 of 100 left)
You will receive one of only two hundred limited edition 4 x 11 inch Super Flash Fiction skyline prints signed by its designer John B Badd.
You will receive an awesome Super Flash Fiction t-shirt with our skyline logo plus all of the above perks.
(please add $5 for XXL and XXXL)
(please add $5 for international shipping)
Estimated delivery:
Oct 2012
Pledge $90 or more
0 backers
Limited
(90 of 90 left)
You will receive one of only one hundred limited edition 8 x 11 inch prints of the cover of our first issue signed by its creator John B Badd.
You will receive the limited edition signed 4 x 11 skyline logo print plus all of the above perks.
(please add $5 for XXL and XXXL)
(please add $5 for international shipping)
Estimated delivery:
Nov 2012
Pledge $100 or more
0 backers
Limited
(8 of 8 left)
You will receive a full color, one page add in issue #3 of Super Flash Fiction. This will be our April issue. You can promote your business, your own projects, art, writing or anything else, as long as it is not profane or pornographic.
Disclaimer: You can not use this space to vanity publish your own short story. We will not offer vanity publishing in Super Flash Fiction.
Estimated delivery:
Apr 2013
Pledge $100 or more
0 backers
Limited
(8 of 8 left)
You will receive a full color, one page add in issue #4 of Super Flash Fiction. This will be our July issue. You can promote your business, your own projects, art, writing or anything else, as long as it is not profane or pornographic.
Disclaimer: You can not use this space to vanity publish your own short story. We will not offer vanity publishing in Super Flash Fiction.
Estimated delivery:
Jul 2013
Pledge $100 or more
0 backers
Limited
(8 of 8 left)
You will receive a full color, one page add in issues #1 and #2 of Super Flash Fiction. These will be our October and January issues. You can promote your business, your own projects, art, writing or anything else, as long as it is not profane or pornographic.
Disclaimer: You can not use this space to vanity publish your own short story. We will not offer vanity publishing in Super Flash Fiction.
Estimated delivery:
Jan 2013
Pledge $100 or more
1 backer
Limited
(9 of 10 left)
You will star in a flash fiction story featured in our magazine as your choice of hero or villain and you can pick your powers. This three hundred to five hundred word story will be written by John B Badd or one of our contributing authors and featured in a special section of issue one dedicated to our contributors.
Estimated delivery:
Oct 2012
Pledge $150 or more
0 backers
Limited
(1 of 1 left)
You will receive a full color, back page add in issues #1 and #2 of Super Flash Fiction. These will be our October and January issues. You can promote your business, your own projects, art, writing or anything else, as long as it is not profane or pornographic.
Disclaimer: You can not use this space to vanity publish your own short story. We will not offer vanity publishing in Super Flash Fiction.
Estimated delivery:
Jan 2013
Pledge $150 or more
0 backers
Limited
(1 of 1 left)
You will receive a full color, back page add in issue #4 of Super Flash Fiction. This will be our July issue. You can promote your business, your own projects, art, writing or anything else, as long as it is not profane or pornographic.
Disclaimer: You can not use this space to vanity publish your own short story. We will not offer vanity publishing in Super Flash Fiction.
Estimated delivery:
Jul 2013
Pledge $150 or more
0 backers
Limited
(1 of 1 left)
You will receive a full color, back page add in issue #3 of Super Flash Fiction. This will be our April issue. You can promote your business, your own projects, art, writing or anything else, as long as it is not profane or pornographic.
Disclaimer: You can not use this space to vanity publish your own short story. We will not offer vanity publishing in Super Flash Fiction.
Estimated delivery:
Apr 2013
Pledge $200 or more
0 backers
Limited
(1 of 1 left)
You will receive a full color, front page add in issue #4 of Super Flash Fiction. This will be our July issue. You can promote your business, your own projects, art, writing or anything else, as long as it is not profane or pornographic.
Disclaimer: You can not use this space to vanity publish your own short story. We will not offer vanity publishing in Super Flash Fiction.
Estimated delivery:
Jul 2013
Pledge $200 or more
0 backers
Limited
(1 of 1 left)
You will receive a full color, front page add in issues #1 and #2 of Super Flash Fiction. These will be our October and January issues. You can promote your business, your own projects, art, writing or anything else, as long as it is not profane or pornographic.
Disclaimer: You can not use this space to vanity publish your own short story. We will not offer vanity publishing in Super Flash Fiction.
Estimated delivery:
Jan 2013
Pledge $200 or more
0 backers
Limited
(1 of 1 left)
You will receive a full color, front page add in issue #3 of Super Flash Fiction. This will be our April issue. You can promote your business, your own projects, art, writing or anything else, as long as it is not profane or pornographic.
Disclaimer: You can not use this space to vanity publish your own short story. We will not offer vanity publishing in Super Flash Fiction.
