ANATOMY is Done

The latest issue of Cliterature went live last night and for the first time it is also available in a professionally published format. ANATOMY is the summer issue of 2012, and in a few weeks it will have been six years since I started Cliterature. Never imagined it would last this long, nor could I even imagine how many amazing and wonderful people it has brought into my life.

Check out this photo. Each pin is a person that has been published in Cliterature, but it's incomplete in that there are a number of contributors who have not disclosed their locations.

Happy Summer Solstice!

Chapter Nine and MYTHS Done

I'm exhausted but also relieved that within the last two weeks I've managed to finish Chapter Nine of You Know Me, Etc and also produce the MYTHS issue of Cliterature (and on time, to boot). MYTHS is a significant issue for me because it marks the four-year point for publishing Cliterature. Things have changed dramatically in my life and the rest of America's lives in that time. For one thing, social media has gone from a self-indulgence to a necessity for many of us.

I really don't think Cliterature would have taken off on the international scale that it has if it wasn't for two things: Cliterature is an exclusively online journal, meaning the distribution isn't limited by print runs or geography, and I've been able to promote it across several social media channels that reach a far wider audience than I could have done with more traditional forms of marketing. It makes me happy to see so many people from such different places and walks of life enjoying and submitting to Cliterature, many of whom struggle to see their work published in more mainstream publications. Over the course of the past four years, whenever I am able to publish someone for their first time, I feel a special pride that I am able, in my own small way, to get their voice into the public realm.