Bringing this over from my blog, megmoseman.com:

For the rest of the year, I hope to release monthly zines in multiple formats. The ones planned for this year are all of February, and many of them will be in some form in the long February book that I hope to release toward the end of the year (or — just possibly — submit to publishers then instead; we’ll see how I feel, what it’s like, etc.).

Doing this partly for fun (I get impatient working on long projects), partly as an experiment (will it get more people interested in my stuff? Or will it do the opposite — dilute it?), and, finally, because I think I work best in short forms (chapbook, novella, small essay rather than long essay) — certainly most coherently — and because I’ve gotten the feedback that Out of Tales is a lot to digest, and and shorter things in the same ungenre might be easier to read.

Just set the first one free to roam the internet (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FHN9BMMG?ref_=ast_author_dp) and even physical reality (you can download, cut, fold, and staple/sew one free from on this project’s main page).

Confession: this first one, Theme & Explorations — is a big deal to me. Like, honestly, a bigger deal than I’m making of it right now: I thought I’d start on the anniversary of Out of Tales, with something that’s — honestly — at least as important: it contains the poem form of the central story in my myth, plus a dense interpretation. This poem is one of my favorite things I’ve ever written (not sure if it deserves to be, but there we are), and the five-part exegesis is something I use to pattern a lot of the rest of my writing and thinking.

I wasn’t sure if it should wait (years, even), but it is important to February. I suspect you will see the entirety of Theme & Explorations in Of the Abandoned (the long February book I mentioned), and I’m almost positive the theme poem (as well as various other versions of the same material) will be back and back again over the years.

Repetition is something I’m not sure how to think about in Evernost. I like it, both in my reading and my writing, but it’s also weird and potentially lazy. I think having some pieces of writing recur in contexts that enrich them may be yet another way in which Evernost bucks tradition, but We Shall See.

Trailing along behind Theme & Explorations the zine will be Theme & Explorations the JavaScript zinegamething. Still dithering about the aesthetic, the format, the type of interactivity. I don’t want the zinegamethings to be cookie-cutter in format, but maybe I should. Maybe predictability would make them easier to enjoy.