LCRW 42 & a Price Raise

Tue 24 Nov 2020 - Filed under: Not a Journal. | Posted by: Gavin

And out it went last week — the 26.79% of subscribers who go for the chocolate option received a range of chocolate bars this time due to me not getting an order in to our supplier. All Fair Trade though, I think and I did try most of them and one I doubted turned out to be delicious, so, thanks, subscribers for giving me an opportunity to try another delicious thing.

You can still read the first section of Sarah Langan’s “You Have the Prettiest Mask” on Lit Hub’s Daily Fiction section. That was great fun to see.

Big news: LCRW subscription prices will be rising on January 1, 2021.

Printing and mailing costs have risen and we raised the pay rate to writers (I’d like to raise that again) and the price of LCRW has been the same since June 2004, when we raised it from $4 a pop to $5.

I really liked the zine being $5 since five dollar bills are easy to handle, change is easy, it’s cheap. But in 2004 LCRW was the same price as The New Yorker (and we still have it beat in weird fiction and delivering chocolate with each issue). Now The New Yorker is $8.99 per issue, so, yep, if we want to pay people a decent amount of money for their work it’s time to add a dollar to the zine cover price.

I expect the new cover and subscription prices will last a few years — and some readers have subscribed for 20 issues (10 years? Wow.) at the current discounted price so that’s a possible deal. Subscribe now, save a few dollars. Subscribe January 2021 and celebrate the new year, sure to be awful in its own way but better than the alternative, as our old friend Bill Desmond used to say.