8: A Steampunk Anthology is now available for digital download! For the more traditional readers among you, pickup a gorgeous print copy here.

8: A Steampunk Anthology has been such a success Sam Kirkman is now managing the creation of 8.5: A Second Steampunk Anthology! Find out more by visiting the project forum…

DEADLINE for 8.5 A Steampunk Anthology : 1st week of August 2011
The deadline is set so that we will be able to represent at APE, the Alternative Press Exposition at the Concourse Building in San Francisco October 1st & 2nd. check out the details of last years APE here http://www.comic-con.org/ape2010/

DETAILS : The Cogs & Rivets
Again we will limit the number of contributing artists to 8, 8 artists, 8 stories, and 8 being the minimum number of pages. However I would like to open it up to a max of 16 pages of story. I think that this will stimulate some interesting developments and allow each of us a bit more freedom to round out a story so that it won’t feel truncated or rushed. We will maintain the original format with Bio page, cover and then story. And for those who are venturing past 8 pages, keep the number of them even, 10,12,14,16, total pages so the layout will be uniform. That is the only other stipulation to page count.

YOUR COMMITMENT : And what this means for you
As with our previous works, each contributing Artist retains the full range of creative rights to their respective works. They may list them separately for sales through any means they see fit, indyplanet.com, Theillustratedsection.com etc. I would like to add that we all agree not to revoke the inclusion of our stories from the collected work at any time in the future. To do so would effectively kill the collaborative venture for all involved. ALL would be affected, so once it’s a part of the collected work, let’s keep our family of stories together. All sales of the printed work through indyplanet.com and PDF through theillustratedsection.com will be divided evenly amongst the contributing members, however from experience, this isn’t expected to be too significant. One application of such proceeds we might want to consider as a group is directing such to printing costs. Ka-Blam! offers 110% if these funds are directed to printing credits. This could be utilized by those who could use a little help in the defraying of convention costs. It should be open to all contributing authors who are using Ka-Blam. A thought for discussion at least.

The best way each of us will be able to see a profit from this venture will be from our personal involvement in it’s distribution through book Fairs & publishing conventions. The more you apply yourself to the marketing the better chance of a return, and in the process, exposure of our work to the fans. There is always the possibility that our work my be picked up by a mainstream publisher as well, and since the new resume is a project, we all benefit in many ways.

AN IMPORTANT POINT
I would like to emphasize the importance of posting our progress on a regular basis here on the pond. By keeping in touch with the group and accepting and giving critiques of the work, is at the very heart of what life on the pond is all about. The virtual studio buddy-ness that builds friendships and hopefully helps shape carriers. Posting on a regular basis will also help prevent technical snafus that plagued the first volume. We can catch problem before it goes to print.

SPREAD THE WORD
Help me tweet about it, blog about it, podcast about it, Facebook about it, Let’s get our Cadre formed!
Thanks for considering this project and like the first one, I feel that it will truly be an incredible experience!