2026-05-12T17:42:15Z https://d.moonfire.us/tags/outposts-of-beyond/ D. Moonfire Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International 2015-02-06T06:00:00Z https://d.moonfire.us/blog/2015/02/06/outposts-of-beyond/

This Thursday, I got a contributor's copy of Outposts of Beyond. It never gets old to see my name on the cover of anything.

<p>Last Thursday, I got a nice surprise delivered to my house: my contributor's copy of <a href="http://store.albanlake.com/product/outposts-of-beyond-january-2015/">Outposts of Beyond</a>. I knew that my article on <a href="https://fedran.com/resonance/">resonance</a> was accepted, but I forgot to ask <em>which</em> issue it was going to show up. Seeing it in print answered that question and made my day.</p> <p>What floored me was seeing my name on the front cover. That was completely unexpected and also made my day.</p> <img src="Outposts7.jpg" alt="Outposts of Beyond cover" /> <h1>Journals of Fedran</h1> <p>I original wrote the article to introduce the concept of resonance in the <a href="https://journals.fedran.com/">Journals of Fedran</a>. Even though I had just posted it on the website (admittedly in unedited form), the editor of the magazine read it and thought it was a good pseudo non-fiction article for fantasy writers.</p> <p>The non-fiction bits of <em>Journals</em> have been hit or miss with readers. According to one, most of them are a bit on the dry side. Which makes sense since they are also pseudo non-fiction written in a fictional world. Writing that type of piece is a much different beast than fiction, even when you take into account the differing writing styles within <em>Journals</em>.</p> <p>I did take the article down for a few months to honor the contract. When it comes back up, it will have a &ldquo;previously published&rdquo; comment.</p> <h1>Creative Commons</h1> <p>One aspect about releasing it under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons</a> is that I wasn't expecting to ever make money from it. It was a risk from the beginning but having a magazine pick it up from the unedited version, clean it up, and then publish it was a nice surprise too. It also meant that I made some money from something that I never expected to make a penny (but I was still planning on paying to get it edited).</p> <h1>Early Releases</h1> <p>While I started issue #1, I'm not going to post it on the site until I get both #0 and #1 edited. Part of the reason I did it was because I wanted to create the site and I was proud of what I did. I also thought it would only be a month or so before things settled down, but that was jumping the gun.</p> <p>I'll get better at this, but in the end, I'm still humbled that someone liked it enough to buy it and then put it on the front cover.</p>