Video and other Media

If you have alternative presentations of your works, such as "presentations or talks in the form of slide shows" or "readings recorded to internet video" or any other multimedia presentation, please let us know. We would like the author listings here to be as complete and as unique as possible. We would consider linking to them or possibly even hosting the files.

VIDA Count

Since we are so small, we're not part of the VIDA count, but we intend to pay attention to this important metric. If you are a woman in the literary arts, please know that we are listening. About 35% of submissions are from female authors and similarly about 35% of acceptances go to them as well.

Expenses

The magazine expenses include:
  • Author Payments (up to USD $0.01 per word)
  • Contest Awards (varies)  


Similarly, the website bdlit.com and all related publications through the magazine and the press incurs expenses, including, but not limited to: 
  • Infrastructure costs, Editing, and related tools, such as WhiteSmoke, or Photoshop
  • Professional Services, such as Submittable
  • Professional memberships, such as Duotrope, or CLMP
  • Publishing and Hosting, such as Weebly 
  • Distribution, such as IngramSpark
  • Marketing and Publicity, such as Bookdaily, Bookbuzzr, Digital Book World, or PressReleaseMonkey.
All these expenses are privately funded by the editorial staff, with a very moderate offset from sources described in "income" on this site.

Income

Potential income sources include:
  • Monthly offsite eBook sales
  • Honest book reviews
  • Donations of time, money or materials 


Note also:
  • No paid (or otherwise compensated) advertising is accepted. 
  • Free courtesy links are returned for significant resources, such as The Grinder or Duotrope. 
  • Free links are offered for content contributors

Note that none of these income or other benefits has any influence over editorial policy.
Because we are terrible business men and give away our content for free on site, the gross earned income for the Black Denim Press has been less than $50 a year for four years running.

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