24.8. SPAG

| Chapter 24: Publishing |

| 24.8. SPAG

Just as major movies and books are launched along with a publicity campaign which involves getting the press interested, so it can be with IF, on a more modest scale.

Probably the best option here is to try to interest the editors of the long-standing webzine SPAG, which appears quarterly and is now well past its 50th issue:

> http://www.sparkynet.com/spag/

If the editors bite, they may want to arrange for the new IF to be announced along with a review and write-up. This requires a little extra patience -- the release has to be timed to coincide with SPAG's publication date -- but that extra wait and effort can result in greater attention for the work. This is especially worthwhile for a major piece, one that's too large for competition entry and which has more to interest players than might first meet the eye.

There are also lively webzines for the community of IF in languages other than English: for example, the excellent SPAC, which serves Spanish IF -

> http://spac.caad.es/

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