 July 23, 2008 - 2:39pm | Anyone ready for Issue 9?
Caveats for Issue 9
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 September 12, 2008 - 8:07am | I don't know. If the content was different, maybe a newsletter might not be so bad. However, I'd like to see the Frontiersman pick back up and the last thing we want to do is dilute the amount of content available. We seem to have a hard enough time as it is getting submissions together. (Of course, I think that will change if we can get a regular publication schedule) I had offered to help out when Bill first asked for volunteers but with a deferral. Basically I said that I'd be more than happy to help but that if he had other volunteers who seemed more eager to by all means let them have a go. I'm officially removing my deferral. I'll help in any way I can. In fact, if the current staff wants to dump it all on me this weekend, I can almost guarantee I'll have it out by the 19th unless it is completely in shambles. I leave Sunday morning for a week-long collaboration meeting at SLAC (The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center). I'll have all of Sunday free and then meetings from 9-5, dinner and then free time for the rest of the day on the weekdays (plus I usually get up around 5:30am so I can work on it in the morning as well). No wife, no kids, my time will be completely my own. My current plan is to bang out a bunch of features on my website and my Knight Hawks computer game but if I get the Frontiersman material, I'll hammer that out instead first. Ad Astra Per Ardua! My blog - Expanding Frontier Webmaster - The Star Frontiers Network & this site Founding Editor - The Frontier Explorer Magazine Managing Editor - The Star Frontiersman Magazine |
 September 12, 2008 - 8:13am | Sounds like the only alternative for the time being. I volunteer my services for layout for this magazine. If anyone can forward the layout for the magazine, brill. If not, not a biggie, I'll put something together. Anyone got a nifty name for this mag? |
 September 12, 2008 - 8:44am | Just sent an e-mail to Bill asking for manger rights to Frontiersman for elpotof, TerlObar, and myself. I agree with you Terl about keeping the one magazine and not diluting our publications, but unless we get control and access to the files, we're not going anywhere. |
 September 12, 2008 - 9:26am | I can't see re grouping and splitting resources to come up with another zine or newsletter. The content is done and submitted. I think the best thing would be to just acquire all the content and stick with the same Frontiersman format. At least I got to scare an alien rabbit thingy...... |
 September 12, 2008 - 6:33pm | You could always have those folks wanting to work on the magazine and then send the finsihed draft to Bill (as an executive producer role) for final approval and then posting. |
September 12, 2008 - 9:23pm | Deffinately would want Bill to give his blessing. At least I got to scare an alien rabbit thingy...... |
 September 13, 2008 - 12:38am | Bottom line. No offense intended, but the wrong crew has the reigns right now and the sooner they step down and hand them off to others who will follow through, the better. They're apparently in way over their heads here... and what's happening is that many of them have just crawled under a rock rather than face up to their failure to live up to their intentions. Mistake 1: Wrong personel. Mistake 2: Setting a deadline the personel couldn't live up to. Mistake 3: Making flimsy excuses. Mistake 4: Thinking that SFman can actually continue to be SFman without Bill. Without Bill the mag will die and this site will die (it's on life support as is.) As much as he'd probably like to see it flourish without his participation, it's just not going to happen. Most of us are here because of the mag and because he launched this site on the back of the mag. And right now there is no personality or producer around here strong enough to hold it all together. I fear that even if the next issue is smashed together by a compentent individual, at this point it's going to lack the identity that the previous issues had. There simply is no competent editor in the mix. It'll be like producing a crappy sequel to a good movie, so what's the point in delaying the inevitable? I say let SFman hibernate. If Bill want's to make another mag some day, he can do it. This is a non-profit project, so there is no need to maintain branding. |
September 13, 2008 - 8:01pm | I agree with what you are saying Full Bleed. It is a shame. Bill started a cool thing. Too bad it failed without him around. It is frustrating that the task was trusted to a few people that don't even have th scrote to pass it off. They must not have an ounce of Yaz' in them. At least I got to scare an alien rabbit thingy...... |
 September 13, 2008 - 9:29pm | Hey guys I worked a heck of a lot of hours on the issue and so did w00t. We were down three people when we were formatting the articles, and there wasnt much material either. I think we had ten good submissions that could put together into the magazine. The most things we had we art. Art is great but that isnt what people just want, people want more info for their gaming, campaign hooks, and whatnot. Confucious Says: Man with one chopstick go hungry. Man who eat many prunes get good run for money. Man who live in glass house should change clothes in basement. |
September 14, 2008 - 9:03am | So, what is the current status of the issue? People just want to know what is going on. When we don't hear anything we think that you just bailed. At least I got to scare an alien rabbit thingy...... |
September 14, 2008 - 2:30pm | We're very happy that you and W00t have put so much effort into getting this done. What we're only saying is that there are many of us that would be willing to help, seeing as how you have significant time/work/life issues going on now. All you have to do is let us know, give us the keys, and let us help. It doesn't have to be an extremely large zine ... |
September 14, 2008 - 7:43pm | From the last time I formatted articles I had done about twenty five pages, which was two or three large articles and that was it. Confucious Says: Man with one chopstick go hungry. Man who eat many prunes get good run for money. Man who live in glass house should change clothes in basement. |
 September 15, 2008 - 2:32am | Thanks for the upgate Gerg. Let me know if you need any more material submissions, I can probably drum something up that's been saved to my hard drive. |
September 15, 2008 - 7:45am | Thanks for the update. That is the first time you said that you had done any pages. Twenty five sounds adequate for an issue. Heck, issue one was only 18 pages. I think most here have said that they would still be happy with smaller issues. At least I got to scare an alien rabbit thingy...... |
September 15, 2008 - 1:25pm | Hye guys send me these kinds of submissions: Equipment (that hasnt been shown in previous issues) Starships or vehilces of some sort (also not shown in previous issues) Small one page or two page adventure hooks and please find us some art to go along with your submissions. If it isnt your art please give the credits along with the art and make sure you have permission to reuse it in your submissions. Classifieds and Community Buzz sumissions Confucious Says: Man with one chopstick go hungry. Man who eat many prunes get good run for money. Man who live in glass house should change clothes in basement. |
September 15, 2008 - 1:28pm | One last thing send them to the email submissions@starfrontiersman.com or to the email I use to coordinate with people editor@starfrontiersman.com. Also anybody who wants to help with formatting and editing of articles please send me a PM (private Message) or email. I'll get you the materials and the template. Confucious Says: Man with one chopstick go hungry. Man who eat many prunes get good run for money. Man who live in glass house should change clothes in basement. |
September 16, 2008 - 3:46am | Would the Corona Phoenix suffice? I'll fire the Phoenix off in an email along with some deckplans. |
September 16, 2008 - 6:10am | Sure whatever you think will work. Confucious Says: Man with one chopstick go hungry. Man who eat many prunes get good run for money. Man who live in glass house should change clothes in basement. |
September 16, 2008 - 6:45am | Gergmaster sent me the files and I'm working on formatting them now. We have plenty of main content for the issue. I currently have four formatted articles and they fill ~18 pages. I've got several more articles to do still. Looking at the content, what we really seem to need is some more classified ads for the back. From the looks of it, we only have the one I submitted months ago. Send them to me directly or to the submissions e-mail and Gergmaster can forward them to me. Ad Astra Per Ardua! My blog - Expanding Frontier Webmaster - The Star Frontiers Network & this site Founding Editor - The Frontier Explorer Magazine Managing Editor - The Star Frontiersman Magazine |
September 16, 2008 - 7:06pm | Feel free to rehash the "Shadow Shack hovercycle ad" spoof that Bill did on issue #3 After all, every magazine has its regular advertisers  |
September 16, 2008 - 11:58pm | Okay, things are coming along nicely. Look for about a 48 page issue this time. I could make it longer but I'll save about 26 pages of fiction for the next issue :-). The main articles are formated and roughly layed out. I have the cover done (although I need the credit for theh cover art). What's left is the hard part: filling in all the white space at the end of each article and final proofreading. I have some gadgets and some illustartions and artwork for filling in the space, it's just a matter of placing things where they make the most sense. I also need authors for the following two articles. If you sent them in please PM me with the name you want in the by-line. I think I know who wrote them but want to be sure. The two articles are: Destiny Run (story) and It'll Ride Up With Wear I also need to do the classified ad section so you still have a chance to send me more ads. In any case, it's coming along. I didn't get the material until Monday so I didn't have most of the day on Sunday to work on it but I might still get it out by Friday. We'll see. It's midnight, I'm going to bed. Ad Astra Per Ardua! My blog - Expanding Frontier Webmaster - The Star Frontiers Network & this site Founding Editor - The Frontier Explorer Magazine Managing Editor - The Star Frontiersman Magazine |
 September 17, 2008 - 7:03am | A fun experient (for issue 10 or later) would be to write the whole issue from a Sathar point of view.. a kind of Sathar Military Briefing (their version of news). Try to make loads of stuff documenting perspectives on the core races, make some Sathar Equipment, maybe a knight hawks scenario, rehash the Sessu or perhaps even another Sathar offshoot... etc. Seems like enough material can be slammed together to make an issue out of it without even much effort. Anyhow, nice to see that folks are getting things back on track. Cheers! <insert witty comment here> |
September 17, 2008 - 7:53am | Hey Terl, Thanks for the update. Thanks for your hard work. Look forward to it. Sounds like a good idea Smoot. Always looking for more Sathar material. At least I got to scare an alien rabbit thingy...... |
September 17, 2008 - 2:15pm | TerlObar the credit is on the bottom left of the sample I sent you for the front page. It is the usual guy whose art we use for the front cover. Confucious Says: Man with one chopstick go hungry. Man who eat many prunes get good run for money. Man who live in glass house should change clothes in basement. |
September 18, 2008 - 7:54pm | Hey guys, I'm almost done with the layout. I just have to do the table of contents and the classifieds. Also, I could use 2 small (landscape oriented) pictures, preferably of creatures to drop into some small white spots. Finally, with all the layout revisions, I currently have an odd number of pages so I need a filler. I do have a one page article I could remove but I'd rather fill something in instead. If you have a map or full page picutre you'd like me to drop in send it to me tonight. Otherwise I'll find something myself. Ad Astra Per Ardua! My blog - Expanding Frontier Webmaster - The Star Frontiers Network & this site Founding Editor - The Frontier Explorer Magazine Managing Editor - The Star Frontiersman Magazine |
September 18, 2008 - 11:50pm | Hey guys the zine is done. However TerlObar and myself are going to look it over and make sure everybody whose material was placed in the zine is credited. That shouldn't take more than a few minutes. From there we can do the last minute touchups and give you guys that zine. If TerlObar and myself aren't busy we'll try get the zine to you as soon as possible on Friday. Sorry about the wait again guys and good job getting the submissions to the zine in such a crunch of time. Confucious Says: Man with one chopstick go hungry. Man who eat many prunes get good run for money. Man who live in glass house should change clothes in basement. |
 September 19, 2008 - 5:30am | Thanks for the update. take your time. Time flies when your having rum. Im a government employee, I dont goof-off. I constructively abuse my time. |
September 19, 2008 - 11:04am | Great job you guys. We all appreciate it. |
 September 19, 2008 - 11:16am | Good job! Looking forward to it! Did you guys get the originals of the SF9 materials and recreate it? Or were you able to get a hold of the preliminary issue 9 and modify it? -Andrew |
 September 19, 2008 - 3:34pm | Excellent job, guys. Nice to see what happens when someone steps up to the plate and gets serious. If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. -- Carl Sagan |
