Name It

I was stewing over Rock Stew when it finally occurred to me why I was so bothered by it: Stone Soup is the title of a children's mag! I guess Rock Stew is the grown-up version? Heh.

Methinks a good brainstorming session is in order.

I've invited a couple of friends to have a look at our blog-about-it blog here; one has had a peek and thinks we should definitely go for it. Thanks, Liz! Your opinion means a lot to me! I don't know if the second invitee has been here or not, nor -- if she has been -- whether or not she's rolled her eyes at our flight of fancy. (A decided flight of fancy considering my reduced circumstances!)

I put in some time with MSPublisher over the weekend to see just how workable it is. I'm happy to report that the program includes CMYK and Pantone functionality. I'm investigating the difference between "Black" and "Process Black" in the Pantone system, because of problems I am aware of on the printing end: one of these is probably what is known as "rich black" that uses all 4 printing colors (cyan, magenta, yellow, black -- the CMYK of CMYK, with black being K) to create black, while the other should be 100% K. My thinking is that "Process Black" is the one we want (100% K) but I won't know until I run a test .pdf and use the full Acrobat to see the color separations. That is, however, an easy step.

I will have to learn where all the buttons are for everything, but after an initial foray into it, I'd say that Publisher will be just fine for our purposes.

Name that Zine

I told John last night that for a long time I'd wanted to use "Glow Worm" as a publishing name -- zine, publishing company, whatever ... it's another way, says my scrambled brain, to say "moonlighting" without saying moonlighting. I would, said I on that aforementioned heady eve, use that title for this very blog about our 'Zine-producing process.

At dawn of day, however, I decided not to do that. Glow Worm sounds like something for kids. Kids are great, but this is an adult endeavor. Glow Worm is decidedly out.

Hence the title "Our New Zine" for the blog. I apologize for the aribtrary decision, but, hey, we needed a start and, John, I don't think you were out of bed yet.

Now the Zine itself needs a title. The floor is open to suggestions.