AUSTIN MAKES A BOOK

How do you feel about zine culture? I've always been entertained by magazines and quickly, as tiny zines began their trend, I was interested too. Incase you're confused, zines are small, magazine like publications, usually pictures and text aimed at a very specific crowd or subculture like graffiti, poetry, or political manifestos.

That being said, this new project I've stumbled upon via my daily internet networkings interested me because of it's similarity with zines and graphic type books with collections of arty photos and witty text. The project called, Austin Makes a Book will be similar to a book previously published by the city of New York called New York Makes a Book. I know, I know, following in NYC's footsteps... how cliche Austin...but ours, obviously, will undermine theirs. 

Pride aside, the book is going to be a really fun project. The premise is simple: This book is crowd-published. This means that 100 people will pay 30 bucks for their own page and publish whatever they want that'll fit onto a 7x7 page. Photos. Stories. Art. Notes. Whatever...

It's the perfect way to publish that naked Polaroid of your ex  to the rest of the world (okay, maybe pushing it) or that art masterpiece of yours that your parents never hung on the fridge. As long as you live in Austin and your submission isn't obscene or offensive it's game. Check their website for more info on submission guidelines. 

Even better...the publicists (phenix & phenix literary publicists) will be throwing a launch party for all 100 authors when the book comes out in November!

Start digging for yer masterpieces, Austinites...