thread: 2008-10-02 : Fellow Publishers: Success? Failure?
On 2008-10-14, Joshua A.C. Newman wrote:
1. What's your name?
Joshua A.C. Newman.
2. What's your publishing company?
the glyphpress
3. What game or games have you published?
Under the Bed; Shock: Social Science Fiction; Beowulf. I also published Homunculand, a modern tale of a mathematically gestated golem.
4. When you first started publishing, what success did you hope for?
First, for the process to teach me about publishing, from conception to production to distribution.
Second, to engage in the give and take of a creative community, the chosen medium of which I understand and am passionate about.
Third, to learn enough at low risk for the process to always turn me profit as part of my design business.
5. Did you achieve it?
Yes. The profit-turning has sometimes been smaller than other times, but in the four or so years I've been doing this, it's always turned a profit.
6. What success do you hope for now?
For the glyphpress to increase in profit and progress technically proportionate with the rest of Joshua Newman Design and the glyphpress.
7. Have you achieved it?
I don't think so. I think it lags significantly.
8. If a hopeful new RPG publisher came to you and asked you for your wisdom, to help her set reasonable expectations for her own games' success, what would you tell her?
I'd very carefully discuss just what it was that she wanted from the process and how to get it. If it was outrageous commercial success I'd shrug and offer that she ask someone else.
