i have a desire to start publishing a magazine on destiny moulding with two of my younger brothers since we sense a gift of writing is in our family 1)how can we proceed? 2)how can we establish a business relationship with fast company? 3)what other organisations can be of help to us ? thank you.

-- KINGSLEY MGBEMERE (kingsmgbemere@hotmail.com), December 15, 2000

Answers

Well, launching a magazine isn't easy. Just ask the folks who ran Might (RIP). Or Go -- http://www.gomagazine.com . Or us. Oh, you already did that.

For some basic starting advice, check out

http://www.minonline.com/minmag/previous/fall98/nevergiveup.htm http://www.publishinghelp.com/startup.htm http://www.westherts.ac.uk/publishing/mags/carweek/carweek.htm http://publishingbiz.com/html/faqs_startups.html

In terms of working with us, we're not currently looking for new- publication partners, but let us know what you're interested in doing. There might be a connection.

There are also some books you should check out

http://publishingbiz.com/html/cheryls_book.html http://amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0966104900/publishingbizcomA http://amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0918110211/publishingbizcomA

Good luck!

Heath

-- Heath Row (heath@fastcompany.com), December 18, 2000.

I have been making books for children by writing the dreambroker (creative peoples network) mission statement; to unite creative people with creative ideas to better the world for our childrens children and to expand the boundaries of intellect through sharing of resources and experience.

then I take the book with me when I travel and pass it out to different creative people that I meet and tell them to take a page and leave their art,poems,writing,songs, or dreams and then if someone reading them in the future wants to contact them they can.

I am in the process of building a site for this until then stay tuned and share your dreams

-- farnk gregory (dreambroker4@yahoo.com), May 04, 2001.