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CCLaP Journal #1
The CCLaP Journal is the monthly magazine of the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography, gathering up the material that ran at our blog the month previous. Issue #1 features our extended "Year in Books 2012" report, an interview with George Saunders, original fiction from Ben Tanzer, a field report from the Harmontown podcast stop in Chicago, photo features by Francesca Marie, Katherine Hodges, and Paul Lask & Anna Bolm, plus a dozen book reviews and more. Download it for free or order a paper copy at [cclapcenter.com/journal].
96 pages, ebook
First published February 10, 2013
About the author
Jason Pettus
12 books1,377 followers(I'm now writing a free weekly newsletter about my adventures as a freelance book editor, if you're interested.)
Former owner of an indie press, currently a freelance developmental editor for self-publishing and small-press authors (email me at ilikejason@gmail.com for more, or see my freelancing website or my Upwork profile). Happy to accept your ARC for review, but be aware that I will treat it like any other book, even if I think it's terrible. I also write about movies at letterboxd.com/jasonpettus. Other interests include cooking, bicycling, international travel, sci-fi universe creation, and being a smartass. Based in Chicago.
Former owner of an indie press, currently a freelance developmental editor for self-publishing and small-press authors (email me at ilikejason@gmail.com for more, or see my freelancing website or my Upwork profile). Happy to accept your ARC for review, but be aware that I will treat it like any other book, even if I think it's terrible. I also write about movies at letterboxd.com/jasonpettus. Other interests include cooking, bicycling, international travel, sci-fi universe creation, and being a smartass. Based in Chicago.
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March 4, 2013
CCLaP is hiring book reviewers. And we're paying.
Things with CCLaP have simply gotten too big for me to be able to single-handedly write all 150 book reviews a year that our blog publishes; so I'm looking to bring on three other people besides myself and existing staff writer Karl Wolff, so that each of us writes at least one thousand-word essay a week about a book we've recently read, plus as many short one-paragraph reviews during the week that people might want to post. The way we're paying these reviewers, then, is to gather up all the material at our blog each month and publish it as a magazine -- the magazine you're seeing on this webpage, in fact -- give it out for free at the blog but charge $5 at Amazon and iTunes, and $20 for a paper copy, then give each writer $1 of every copy sold of that issue. So how much does that mean? Well, I don't know at this point, and you should absolutely be prepared for that number to maybe be "zero" at first; but I'm hoping if we all work together to help spread the word, it'll be more like several hundred dollars that each of us will be making per month for writing book reviews.
So that means I'm being very particular over which three people I'll be taking on to fill those slots, because there is very definitely a "CCLaP ethos" at the blog that I want to carefully maintain. And what exactly is the CCLaP ethos? Well, the short answer is to read my own book reviews and do exactly like them; but the long answer is perhaps best defined through a series of contradictory questions…
--Are your existing reviews smart without being pretentious?
--Are they informative without being academic?
--Are they funny but not silly?
--Are they opinionated but not judgmental?
--Do they express why some people might legitimately like the book and others legitimately dislike it?
--Do they take themselves seriously, but not too seriously?
--Do they have a natural flow that takes the reader from A to B to C?
--Do they cover a mix of obscure and popular titles?
--Are they friendly (and sometimes forgiving) towards basement-press and self-published work?
--And can you consistently crank out a thousand-word piece every week that adheres to all this?
If you said yes to all the above, please contact me here at Goodreads, and send me links to the five book reviews of yours you'd most like me to read; and also make sure to check out this magazine (which like I said has a free version at the blog), to make sure you really do know what you're getting yourself into. I sincerely look forward to hearing from you.
Things with CCLaP have simply gotten too big for me to be able to single-handedly write all 150 book reviews a year that our blog publishes; so I'm looking to bring on three other people besides myself and existing staff writer Karl Wolff, so that each of us writes at least one thousand-word essay a week about a book we've recently read, plus as many short one-paragraph reviews during the week that people might want to post. The way we're paying these reviewers, then, is to gather up all the material at our blog each month and publish it as a magazine -- the magazine you're seeing on this webpage, in fact -- give it out for free at the blog but charge $5 at Amazon and iTunes, and $20 for a paper copy, then give each writer $1 of every copy sold of that issue. So how much does that mean? Well, I don't know at this point, and you should absolutely be prepared for that number to maybe be "zero" at first; but I'm hoping if we all work together to help spread the word, it'll be more like several hundred dollars that each of us will be making per month for writing book reviews.
So that means I'm being very particular over which three people I'll be taking on to fill those slots, because there is very definitely a "CCLaP ethos" at the blog that I want to carefully maintain. And what exactly is the CCLaP ethos? Well, the short answer is to read my own book reviews and do exactly like them; but the long answer is perhaps best defined through a series of contradictory questions…
--Are your existing reviews smart without being pretentious?
--Are they informative without being academic?
--Are they funny but not silly?
--Are they opinionated but not judgmental?
--Do they express why some people might legitimately like the book and others legitimately dislike it?
--Do they take themselves seriously, but not too seriously?
--Do they have a natural flow that takes the reader from A to B to C?
--Do they cover a mix of obscure and popular titles?
--Are they friendly (and sometimes forgiving) towards basement-press and self-published work?
--And can you consistently crank out a thousand-word piece every week that adheres to all this?
If you said yes to all the above, please contact me here at Goodreads, and send me links to the five book reviews of yours you'd most like me to read; and also make sure to check out this magazine (which like I said has a free version at the blog), to make sure you really do know what you're getting yourself into. I sincerely look forward to hearing from you.
September 23, 2023
more clap (not the good kind).
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