To say it plainly, though Thrice Publishing is a 501c3 non-profit that can accept donations, we recognize that there are a lot more worthy causes to give charitable dollars to.
At the same time, it is impossible to do the things we’d like to do with Thrice Fiction Magazine and our book publishing efforts with our continually meager resources. We have, for example, 5 titles published in book form and a long list of magazine issues still out there but we’ve never been able to put the word out in public much beyond our social media outlets.
Grant applications have been applied for and, to this date, none have ever been approved. And the plain fact is that we’ve had more out-of-pocket expenses than what we’ve brought in has covered since, like, day one. To this day I still don’t know the magic formula or whose palm to grease to get a grant. We’re not associated with any institution or foundation if that has anything to do with it. We’ve been going since 2011 and if staying power was a requirement I don’t know what else would prove we had it. Anyway, that’s one thing to cry about.
So instead of whining about how everybody hates us, we’ve decided to stop eating worms (Dave is a vegetarian anyway) and try something else. It is mainly a way to generate some cash flow but there is also another purpose. No one is going to become a millionaire doing this and, really, income is only part of the reason we’re doing this.
Starting in 2023 we’re going to present what we are calling The Thrice Collection. We have been, and still are, scouring the planet for work that has gone into the public domain so we can pick it up and put the Thrice spin on the presentation. But, as you may guess, we’re a little bored by similar efforts by small publishing houses. We intend on choosing outlier material, cult classics, and long-forgotten, even bizarre work, and package them in a collection that can stand together on a bookshelf. You probably know of collections already that have this feature. Think of it as a paperback Penguin Classics with no regard for decorum. So, yeah, packaging - but it’s what’s inside that counts. The intention is to give some rebirth to material that we feel should not be forgotten.
For starters sometime early next year we’re going to do a reprint of Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We.
Thought by many to be the original dystopian novel, We was written in the 1920s and originally circulated in hand-written copies while the author was jailed by Stalin in the same cell block of the same prison where he was jailed at the hands of the Tsarist police 16 years earlier. George Orwell reviewed and credited it as the inspiration behind both Animal Farm and 1984. Many thought it was also the power that moved Aldous Huxley to write Brave New World. It created the dystopian genre before there was such a thing. Think The Shape of Things to Come, THX1138, Fahrenheit 451, The Handmaid’s Tale, and so many hundreds of others that have followed.
The challenge is that, since we’re not the only ones publishing it, there has to be a reason to get the Thrice-issued version. We plan on not disappointing in that regard and, when more titles are added to the growing Library, the full effect will be worth it.
Though the reason we’re up to this is to create a library that only Thrice could come up with, the larger goal is to get back into the magazine and new author titles we started doing way back when. We hope you’ll like it.
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To say it plainly, though Thrice Publishing is a 501c3 non-profit that can accept donations, we recognize that there are a lot more worthy causes to give charitable dollars to.
At the same time, it is impossible to do the things we’d like to do with Thrice Fiction Magazine and our book publishing efforts with our continually meager resources. We have, for example, 5 titles published in book form and a long list of magazine issues still out there but we’ve never been able to put the word out in public much beyond our social media outlets.
Grant applications have been applied for and, to this date, none have ever been approved. And the plain fact is that we’ve had more out-of-pocket expenses than what we’ve brought in has covered since, like, day one. To this day I still don’t know the magic formula or whose palm to grease to get a grant. We’re not associated with any institution or foundation if that has anything to do with it. We’ve been going since 2011 and if staying power was a requirement I don’t know what else would prove we had it. Anyway, that’s one thing to cry about.
So instead of whining about how everybody hates us, we’ve decided to stop eating worms (Dave is a vegetarian anyway) and try something else. It is mainly a way to generate some cash flow but there is also another purpose. No one is going to become a millionaire doing this and, really, income is only part of the reason we’re doing this.
Starting in 2023 we’re going to present what we are calling The Thrice Collection. We have been, and still are, scouring the planet for work that has gone into the public domain so we can pick it up and put the Thrice spin on the presentation. But, as you may guess, we’re a little bored by similar efforts by small publishing houses. We intend on choosing outlier material, cult classics, and long-forgotten, even bizarre work, and package them in a collection that can stand together on a bookshelf. You probably know of collections already that have this feature. Think of it as a paperback Penguin Classics with no regard for decorum. So, yeah, packaging - but it’s what’s inside that counts. The intention is to give some rebirth to material that we feel should not be forgotten.
For starters sometime early next year we’re going to do a reprint of Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We.
Thought by many to be the original dystopian novel, We was written in the 1920s and originally circulated in hand-written copies while the author was jailed by Stalin in the same cell block of the same prison where he was jailed at the hands of the Tsarist police 16 years earlier. George Orwell reviewed and credited it as the inspiration behind both Animal Farm and 1984. Many thought it was also the power that moved Aldous Huxley to write Brave New World. It created the dystopian genre before there was such a thing. Think The Shape of Things to Come, THX1138, Fahrenheit 451, The Handmaid’s Tale, and so many hundreds of others that have followed.
The challenge is that, since we’re not the only ones publishing it, there has to be a reason to get the Thrice-issued version. We plan on not disappointing in that regard and, when more titles are added to the growing Library, the full effect will be worth it.
Though the reason we’re up to this is to create a library that only Thrice could come up with, the larger goal is to get back into the magazine and new author titles we started doing way back when. We hope you’ll like it.
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