At long last it's here.
Three months in the making and I'm damn proud of what me, Cam and Liam were able to hobble together.
But, mostly, I'm proud of our contributors, they're the ones who made issue #1 what it is.
Yes, I just wrote Crimefactory three time for no apparent reason, other than to post three links to the same site.
Seriously, though, if you haven't checked it out yet, give it a look.
We've got features from Scott Phillips, Adrian Mckinty, Gordon Harries, and my man, the Nerd of Noir.
So what are you waiting for?
Go ahead click right here: Crimefactory!
PS
And folks, thanks for all the support you've been offering over the last 24 hours and I promise to iron out the contrast issues on the Home page links and some other little things tonight.
It's a beut, Keith.
ReplyDeletenow comes the nervous breakdown. i jest, i jest!
ReplyDeleteWhy PDF?
ReplyDeleteJust curious. It's a pig to read PDFs. You ever visit the e-book forum at Mobileread? Go ask the reader's forum what they think about PDFs. By all accounts your content is good so why not get it formatted up for Kindle and .epub?
Re: the layout - what format are your background images in? They seem to take a long time to load.
They're too in your face. You should fade them out so they're BACKGROUND.
Hmm. You are formatted for Kindle? I musta missed that the first time around. Can't seem to click it though but that could be my noscript settings.
ReplyDeleteOk, I have total OCD about this sort of thing.
ReplyDeleteI checked the page info of your main page:
The factory image is 189kb, the background to your title is 99kb and shows up twice in the page info, so does the picture of the lady at 90kb per time. With other misc graphics you've got about 1 meg loading. Not a lot these days but it's noticeable and could be shrunk down to jack squat, especially those B&W images.
Background images are a bit Myspace though. I'd dump them and push your logo hard. That's your brand recognition right there.
Anton, to be blunt, we like PDF, the format allows us to lay out our content like a print magazine.
ReplyDeleteOur writers like the look, and apparently the 80,000 some odd people who've visited the site in the LAST TWO DAYS alone and the close to 150 e-mails I've received in those two days prove that the site--and the format--work.
And I pay very little attention to forums and what are said in them. I personally believe in sticking to personal vision as opposed to bowing down to what a small group of individuals who populate said forums say.
And I'm not trying to sound pissy here, and I appreciate you even visiting the site, but the publication is run by myself, Cameron Ashley, and Liam Jose, and we will run it the way we see fit.
And what fits for us is publishing Crimefactory as a PDF.
And we are now available on Kindle.
Please keep reading though, we have some very exciting issues coming up.
Ok Keith, calm down. Just offering an opinion.
ReplyDeleteCongrats, Keith, Liam and Cam!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations to the team on this project. I've only had an opportunity to scan it but am impressed by the quality of the content. How did you guys know that I'm really interested Hammett's Red Harvest and the Continental Op. And to have Alan Gutherie describe how Fifty Grand came together is terrific since it is one of my favorite books of 2009.
ReplyDeleteBefore anyone says anything, yes, I know I know that Adrian McKinty wrote Fifty Grand. I have no idea why I wrote Alan Gutherie other than their first names begin with "A" and they are both favorite authors of mine. Maybe I'm being punished for reading blogs at work.
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