[Maryann Corbett]

Thanks, Susan and Gregory! Bill, all praise for your perseverance--roll on!

[W.F. Lantry]

We had an hour long network wide outage today. Nothing to do with the journal this time, thank goodness. But if you tried to get in during that time, our apologies. We're back up now, with new work. Please join us peacockjournal.com.

[W.F. Lantry]

Originally Posted by Michael Cantor

You state: “Most web journals don’t take advantage of the web.” He was right: they still think in terms of issues and volumes, they don’t incorporate all technology offers. We are determined to be completely different. But I can't find how or where. "We haven't figured that out yet" is a perfectly acceptable answer. But I am curious.

We haven't figured that out yet...

One thing we want to do is feature quite a bit of art. There are some very nice journals out there (escapeintolife is one) which pair up writers and artists. We're not there yet, but it's starting to look like a goal. Another nice thing they do is to ask everyone for an artistic statement... I rather like that idea. Again, we're not there yet.

Video poetry and audio work are also big targets. With video, people are doing some stunning things. And with audio? Remember soundzine? That was cool.

We also want to integrate web and print. We have a publishing house on board for that. We're already tracking which work gets how many readings. Of course, those with the most would be good candidates for the eventual print anthology. And an experienced editor gave us a good idea: a 'sponsor this work' link. Say you, as a reader, just loved an author's story. You could click the link, and donate to the anthology fund in favor of that story. Maybe a dollar, maybe more, up to you. Once it got to a certain threshold, the story would go in, and that would reduce the publisher's risk.

Don't know if that will work, but maybe. If it does, we might be able to use the same metaphor to actually pay authors after the fact. Wouldn't that be cool? It would certainly buck the trend of journals charging reading fees, and paying submittable, and...

So, no, we have no idea where we're going, or how to get there. We just have some thoughts, and we'd welcome more, no matter how unusual. Where we are right now? We've just stood up, and we haven't fallen back over. There's a hill over there in the distance, and we're heading for it. Who knows what we'll find?

Best,

Bill