Comments on: Flytrap: A Little Zine With Teeth, Lucky Number 7 (May 2007): Magazine Review

By: My Very Own Blogetary (Blog: Web Log; etary or ary: engaged in or pertaining to) » New Genre, Spring 2007, Issue 5: A Magazine Review

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:06:21 +0000

[...] Back in May (2007), I reviewed Flytrap (the little zine with teeth) and in that blog said that I, personally, was not impressed by a piece by Jan Wildt. I can never tell if anyone really takes my little reviews seriously, or even if they’re read at all. But, time passed and I guess people did read my review. Months later I receive an email from the editor of New Genre magazine, Adam Golaski, asking if I’d be interested in reading and reviewing his zine. He had heard about my blog through Jan Wildt, who was actually amused by my review. Always on the prowl for new markets, I said sure. A little while later the Spring 2007 Issue (#5) of New Genre landed in my mail box. Took me a while to get to it, but I finally did. So here we go. [...]

By: Rachel

Rachel — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:24:37 +0000

Wow! Thanks! I’m reading my first copy of Electric Velocipede now. I’m going to review that next. It’s a fun read so far.

Thanks for dropping by!

By: HF Gibbard

HF Gibbard — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:55:14 +0000

Thanks for the thoughtful ‘zine review. You’ve really made me want to check out “Flytrap,” even if you didn’t like all the stories. Keep up the good work! –Frank

By: Rachel

Rachel — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:52:56 +0000

I think I’m all googly starry-eyed! Tim Pratt on my own blog! Whoohoo!

I’m such a geek. Movie stars? Rock stars? Who cares. Authors and editors and I SWOON!

By: Tim Pratt

Tim Pratt — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:06:28 +0000

Thanks for the thoughtful commentary. We don’t expect every story to work for every reader, so fear not — we try to publish a wide variety of stories (though we do love them all). And, yes, as a small ‘zine produced for love, we do try to publish things that are a bit stranger than what you’re likely to find in bigger commercial magazines — there’s no point in us trying to do what Asimov’s or Realms of Fantasy do, after all; we’re in a very different niche. (I will say that Jan Wildt’s story is ultimately about a lot more than just showing the world from a baby’s point of view, but we knew a lot of people would hit a brick wall reading it, so don’t feel bad. It’s probably the weirdest thing we’ve ever published.) Again, we appreciate your comments!

By: Rachel

Rachel — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:23:32 +0000

It could be it’s just too San Francisco for me; the zine is based out of Oakland. I loved living there, and I love visiting, but some of the local snobbery, intellectual snobbery, really got to me. I remember getting really frustrated at people who were oh so very rigid and short-sighted in all their great Liberal-ness.

But you are right. Shake it off. Move on. I have other things to obsess about, like names for my characters.

By: jim

jim — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:30:50 +0000

“Again, however, who am I to talk? I feel like a broken record saying this, but apparently, I have very pedestrian tastes or am not intelligent enough since I just didn’t get most of this stuff, and I really wanted to.”

Stop it. You are the market. You are the audience. You are amazing. That’s who you are to talk.

Big smooch.