jasonfranks

I haven't said much about KAGEMONO since #2 shipped last year, but I have been beavering away at this project  ever since and I have a lot more of in the works for 2009. And when I say a lot more, I mean a lot more.

At the moment there are 10 stories underway for the book. 5 different writers and 9 different artists, at least 80 pages of material... and, while it's still early to call it, I think  there's a good chance that number will rise.

I don't have a hard deadline at this point but I am hoping the first half of the year. These things are usually down to the wire, so I'm not yet willing to say what will and what will not be int he book at this point, but right now it's looking like a bit of a monster.

I think we're going to see a format change, too. My original intention was to publish 3 or 4 issues of KAGEMONO total, but with so much material I think I'm going to put it out as a trade. That means the book can be listed with Amazon and through various other internet outlets, and I will probably make an ebook version available as well (given the increased price point).

And there's something else: I was as gloomy as everybody else when Diamond raised its sales thresholds, but now that Haven and the smaller distributors have stepped up it actually feels as if the Direct Market has opened up to micropublishers like me. Diamond has raised their benchmarks twice since I've started publishing, and they wouldn't consider my work even before that... but now, I believe, there's a real possibility that my anthology books can available to the DM. 

-- JF

The new Blackglass Press site is live!

New look, new web store, finally my comics home on the web looks like a real website. Please check it out, love to hear what you think.

Stand by for the official announcement of the first new Blackglass book for 2008.

-- JF