What's your favorite issue of Dark Discoveries?

[darkdiscoveries]

Taking a cue from Bad Moon Roy, what's your favorite issue of Dark Discoveries so far?

- James
www.darkdiscoveries.com

[geneoneill]

The one that features Gene O'Neill's story, " Graffiti Sonata."

[thunderstormbooks]

Issue 2. Amanda's Gift. Brett McBean.

This story, one of my favorites from Brett, convinced me that it was about time for a whole collection...

[razz]

Any one of the first twelve. The last four do nothing for me.

[markgunnells]

Spring 2005 issue, if for no other reason that James Newman's "Dirty Black Summer." One of the most powerful pieces of fiction I ever read. It was not collected in Newman's excellent collection People are Strange, so if you want to read it--and trust me, you want to read it--see if there are any back issues of this one around.

[johnrlittle]

I'm gonna say issue number 1. It was a wonderful surprise to see such a fabulous new magazine.

[darkdiscoveries]

Thanks John!

I was really happy to see the positive response when Dark Discoveries debuted. Things came together nicely to make it a nice looking little magazine with glossy pages and some good content. My first design guy Dave Emrich really did a great job on the layout and established an identity for it. I got really lucky with that one!

Liz Engstrom was incredibly kind and Doug Clegg tolerated my major fauspax as well. Honestly, I thought I might have to run one or two of my own stories under a pseudonym, but fortunately I ended up getting some good stuff from others. Bill Gauthier's "The Umbrella People" is still one of my favorites today.

Not too bad for a guy who hardly knew anybody in the small press, let alone the bigger ones. I just took it seriously myself and other people did as well. Hard to believe that was 6 1/2 years ago now!

- James
www.darkdiscoveries.com