Scope Creep Press

was adding minizines to my library's stash & who should I see in the stack but @aphowell.com !

I'm taking the first steps to expand the distro. Do you want your zines in the Scope Creep distro? Send 'em in during October and November! Details are here: distro.scopecreeppress.com/pages/submit...

FYI, they posted a few dozen new zines at the beginning of the month. Go forth and download!

Unfortunately had to back out of #PtonZF this weekend. But you (yes, you) should still go!

Scope Creep's first event: Princeton Zine Fest, June 20th. Super excited about this. (Even though it means there will be Preparation and Driving and Peopling.) #PtonZF princetonlibrary.org/brochures/pr...

I will say one thing for AI slop; it has radically increased my appreciation of shitty art. Like maybe it lacks creativity, maybe the execution is unskilled, maybe the motivation for making it was commercial, but damned if a human being didn't think of and create it with their own mind and body.

If you want to check out Scope Creep Press zines, you can visit the New Jersey's Middletown Public Library. (Say hi to Laura, a resident zine wrangler.)

They're not going to run out of the absolute worst people with the absolute worst politics to replace the previous absolute worst person with. The barrel is bottomless, we have to eliminate the position, the agency, and unbuild the whole institution.

INBOX: the police chief of Quakertown, Pa., led a group of plainclothes officers to disrupt a peaceful high school student sidewalk protest yesterday. They threw an underage girl to the ground, choked her, and disconnected all calls to the detention center where she and others are currently held.

I've been working on a network of webrings to connect people's hobby sites! I have multiple lines that I visualize as subway lines, so I call it the Smallweb Subway! Every station is someone's website. You can explore it here: gusbus.space/smallweb-sub... #smallweb #webdev #webring

I bought a cheap, lightweight guillotine cutter the other day and it brings me joy, mingled with a frisson of fear. The heavier-duty ones were always in classrooms, and we were always given dire warnings about amputation risk. It's not the most dangerous object in the house, but it *feels* like it.

Oh, yeah, since some amount of national shutting down is occurring today...please don't buy this or anything else from the shops today.

Minizine just dropped. Advice for new editors and publishers: "How to Call for Submissions without Annoying Writers." scopecreeppress.neocities.org

New zine about news during the first couple days after Renee Good's killing. Quarter size collage, pwyw digital, print shipping soon. scopecreeppress.neocities.org

As a nearly elderly person who remembers this well, I LOL'd so hard.

With this update, you can now download Scope Creep zines from the virtual library. It's another option for discovery and access. www.sherwoodforestzinelibrary.org/virtual-zine...

Feeling very distracted this morning, but I still (finally) managed to set up a Fourthwall shop. Folks can now order physical zines! (I think. Haven't finished kicking the tires yet.)

I swung by a few Little Free Libraries and left some zines.

I still have not gotten shit sufficiently together to set up online sales for physical zines, but you can get yourself pay-what-you-want downloads of a minizine how-to, microfiction, and zine template.

Sigh. Right after releasing a zine that mentions SFWA as a good source of information for writers, the organization embraced LLM works for the Nebula Awards. They quickly backtracked, but still... SFWA does have some good resources online, but at this point maybe think twice about joining.

New minizine: "How to Submit Your Short Fiction to Magazines and Anthologies." Currently available as a pay-what-you-want digital download (Letter and A4 sizes). scopecreeppress.itch.io/how-to-submi...

The book community is working together to fund an African small press to translate two novels. #BookSky We need to close this. Very grateful for your help. Still needed: $250 (USD) Last donation/purchase: 11:00a EST / 18:00 SAST ($5) ko-fi.com/africantrans...

If anybody needs a Microsoft Word template for minizines printed on A4 paper, I've got you covered. (This is modified from @jasonkenney.bsky.social's Letter sized template.)

And it is slightly ironic to promote itch at the same time as working on a FOSS itch replacement. (Okay, that's a bit of a simplification of conjured.ink. But still.)

First minizine's been on the website as a free download, and is now also on itch. Enjoy!

Went to the Philly Zine Fest. Bought some stuff, added some zines to the freebie bin, gave some copies to a couple zine libraries. Great day to be walking around the city.

Thank you so much for 1k! To celebrate, we're hosting a creation share! All creations count, but we ask for NO AI, and that all NSFW be labeled correctly. We will repost all creations today which fit the below specifications! Thank you for putting your trust in us! We look forward to serving you.

Exciting news, everyone! As Conjured Ink nears its first beta, we'd like to share with you our roadmap of updates for the next two quarters. These quality of life and system changes will help pave the way for what we hope to become: a home for your incredible works! Thank you!

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

Thank you everyone who's contributed! We're now over 50% to our monthly funding goal, which will allow us to be a pretty reliably sustainable volunteer-run organization that is still able to spend money on e.g. legal, hardware, hosting, etc, costs as we need in order to fulfill our mission!

Please consider this post the equivalent of a '90s era website's "Under Construction" graphic.