Hello friends and fiends,
It is with deep regret and sadness that we are gathered here in remembrance of Necrography magazine who has died this remorseful day. Necrography’s life was cut short and snuffed out of existence and ever shall we mourn the loss.
We’d always hoped to be a self-sufficient, advertising free, independent horror magazine, but that hope is lost in the reality of our market.
Our submissions have been 12 times the number of our purchases and the advertising and promotion we've done have only served to increase those submissions rather than our readership. As a small, unfunded operation, such a submission volume is impossible to keep up with. We’ve done a disservice to our readers since we haven’t have adequate time nor money to deal with design and creation of our issues. As well, we’ve done a disservice to our writers in that our response times are far too long and we cannot offer beneficial critiques in our replies.
The move we made nearly a month ago, in regards to our tiered submissions triage, served only to anger a few of our writers and friends. I assure you this wasn’t intended for any other means than to generate the necessary revenue for printing our next issue. We figured that, as a community of writers and readers, we’d be able to keep Necrography going through a joint effort of folks who’d like to be in print and folks who’d like to see that print. It’s obvious now that this was not a viable strategy.
As of today, all authors who’ve had publishing rights purchased on their work by Necrography retain those rights per paragraph six: “TERMINATION OF AGREEMENT” in the Author and Artist agreement. All authors who have submitted their works, should find another market to submit to.
Necrography Issue #1 will remain on sale for $6.66 USD through the necrography.com website and on Amazon.com until the run is exhausted. Submissions are closed now and will remain so indefinitely.
Thank you to all the writers and readers who helped birth the first and only Necrography issue. We certainly wish that all our writers find suitable (hopefully high paying) markets for their work and our readers find exactly the story the’ve been always wanting to read.
In both life and death...
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