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The Dimestore Monday Kickstart Newsletter
Issue #6 February 2nd, 2004
Idols, Idols, Everywhere By Ian Shires First call! Dimestore is opening the door for submissions to the FIRST Small Press Idol competition. The Winner will be printed in the first full size comic book sized issue of the re-vamped Mysterious Visions Anthology, with an option for a continuing series based on sales and reaction, as well as a free advertising deal for The Guide. Top Runners Up will receive lesser deals, and ALL people who submit in the first round will be printed in a special "Small Press Idol: The Submissions" book, with the comments from the judges. We're hoping this competition, which will run for 4 rounds, and end in APRIL, will generate some real interest for the creators involved, and we will be vigorously promoting the competition. There will be updates about the competition in articles in The Guide to Self Published Periodicals, and it should be a lot of fun. For all the guidelines, you can simply CLICK HERE. Hope to have you all participate in the voting at least, all voting will be done in Polls on our forum. Meanwhile, as we wait for the first submissions to roll in, I'm bust with reviews for the upcoming issue of The Guide, which should be released pretty soon here now. Please note that I pushed the deadline back for the NEXT issue, which I will be going straight into production on on the heels of this issue. Plenty of material already in to make it another solid issue. 2004 might have started off in a weather deep freeze for most of the country, but we're getting ready to do everything we can to warm up the small press world. As always, your thoughts and comments on anything that's going on with Dimestore or the Small Press Association are welcome, just send us an e-mail at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Take care!		Special Deal! Try it today! You can now advertise in our newsletter, cheap! Put your ad in front of over 1,700 small press enthusiasts for just $5.00 E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for more details!
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Deadline for The Guide #48 For Advertisements, Articles, and Letters, is: February 16th, 2004 Plan your presence! Only with your support will The Guide reach the larger audience we need to! Preview of the coming issue (Click image to order a copy!) (Note: If you tried last week and got an error message, it has been fixed!)	The Retailer's Box
	Big Thank You to all the retailers who stopped in at our new The Stores Listings section of the website, and added to the information we have bout your stores. We'll have those updates posted shortly with the next database updates. There's still plenty of time to get more info about your store in, and in fact, we'll always accept updates and changes, and keep the link handy for you to go in and check on yourself. If you'll take a look to the left, you'll see that our name-change is almost complete and The Guide #47 is almost ready for release. As a retail store, you are welcome to request our Retailers Package, which will include a copy of The Guide, a distribution sheet of all the publications we have available for 50% of their cover price, and information on getting copies of The Guide for your customers, to help stimulate sales of independent press publications. All you have to do to get the package is CLICK HERE, and send your stores name and address. We hope to hear from you!
	The Publisher's Box
	Attention small pressers! Our Printing Service now has in place our numbers for below-1,000 copy print run Digests and Magazines! Great per-copy prices, easy-to use service, and up next, and very soon, below 1,000 copy Full Size Comics! But you can start using the magazine and digest numbers RIGHT NOW. If you have any questions, as always, just ask! This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	Recent Things We've Printed Comics #2 Ciderview Project #3 66,000 MPH #1 A Drug War Carol - TPB Currently getting Printed Shooting Star Anthology #3 Black-Eyed Susan #1
Here are the upcoming weeks chat sponsors: * This Week: Cary Stringfield * Next Week: Ryon Moody * 2 Weeks: Tim Petty * 3 Weeks: Rick Olney * 4 Weeks: Trevor Frick Chats are Every Tuesday Night at 7:30PM-9:00PM. Everyone who shows up then gets a free comic from the Chat Sponsor. If you are interested in sponsoring a Tuesday night Chat, they are Tuesday Nights from 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM, pick an open slot and CLICK HERE to tell us of your intention	Kathy's Corner: Tips on getting listed
	I wanted to remind everyone out there again about the REQUIREMENT that we instituted at the start of the new year, that all new publications that you send in that you want reviewed and listed in The Guide, need to have the Submissions Form filled out and included, if you want to have it listed. This coming issue (#48, not the #47 that Ian is in-process of completing right now) is the LAST one that had copies of things turned in before that requirement was instituted. Let me point out once again the Submissions Page. Please follow it's guidelines and tips! That said, I think it's still fair to say that more publishers need to look and make sure they include page numbers inside their publications. It's not just something that helps us in getting information down about your publication, but your readers use such things when they comment on your publications amongs themselves. "Did you see what was on page 23?" "aw, why bother, I hate counting pages" Don't let that be your readers! You can contact me at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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