Important!

This blog is intended primarily for buyers of Neonbeam Magazine, however it is strongly recommended that ANYONE who uses Lulu reads this.

It has come to my attention, from two different contributors of NB7, that print copies of the issue they bought from Lulu.com had the pages ordered incorrectly. I have checked all "print-ready" documents that were uploaded to Lulu (and the PDF edition which is taken directly from the print version) and the pages were (and are) in the correct order prior to publication. Therefore, this is Lulu's printing error - I assume they printed a batch and binded them incorrectly, as the copy I received was accurate.

The first contributor to contact me with this problem also contacted Lulu Support, who are sending another copy to her, free of charge. For anyone else who has experienced this issue with print copies, in the first instance please also contact Lulu (they will need your order number). If Lulu won't send replacement copies, or you have any further problems after contacting them, please let me know and I'll do what I can (email: sammi@neonbeam.org).

I'm extremely sorry about this inconvenience. I am furious with Lulu for this error, especially since their prices have recently increased, and no longer intend to use them to publish Neonbeam. I am not yet sure of an alternative, or whether the magazine will have to be suspended, but I would suggest to anyone who uses Lulu to publish material to be VERY wary of their seemingly decreasing service standards!

Apologies again, and do please get in touch if you have had this problem and Lulu have failed to rectify it.

Neonbeam Issue Six is now available to download at the website as a free PDF, and can also be bought in print here at Lulu.

Issue Six features fiction and poetry by John Oliver Hodges, Gillian Taber, Christopher Nosnibor, Michael Ray Laemmle, Pablo Vision, Christian Roberts, Adrian Ludens, Kevin P. Keating, Gary Beck, Darryl Salach, Joseph Reich, Patience Wieland, Geoff Stevens, Jack Henry, James S. Wilk, David McLean, Rob Plath, Felino Soriano, Ernest Williamson III and Robert S. King. Plus there is an interview with Gregory L. Hall about his new horror writing web project, Choate Road.

Submission guidelines for Issue Seven are now available at the website and on the NB MySpace page. For Issue Seven, as a trial, NB will only accept submissions for one month; from September 15th to October 15th. Responses will be sent out in October, but NB7 will still be published in December.

I am feeling very hungry after all this work and am now going to make a jacket potato for my tea. Soon, no doubt, my fire alarm will go off. I will claim this was intentional, to mark the publication of NB6!

- Sammi

Submissions are now closed for Issue Six and all responses have been sent out. If you have contributed work but have not yet received a response, please contact me. 

Submissions will reopen on September 15th. The new issue will also be available to download and buy on this date... really! It will...! *ahem*. There is still lots to do to prepare this issue, but am sure we will get there eventually.

Always on time, ()

- Sammi

If there are any artists out there who can produce or provide something very colourful and vibrant for the cover of Neonbeam 6, I would love to hear from you. E-Mail me at sammi@neonbeam.org. The dimensions of the cover are about 9x9 inches, but, like the cover of Issue 5, we can accomodate other sizes too. All images need to be at least 300 pixels per inch.

If there are no responses, I will happily move on to plan B!

- Sammi

Neonbeam Issue Four is now available to download free at the website. You can also buy it in print from Lulu, here.

NB4 features fiction and poetry by:

Jo Thomas, Christopher Nosnibor, T.N.T. Blakemore, David Byron, Bruce Hesselbach, Marie Lecrivain, Sarah Dodd, Kevin Brown, Steve De France, Barry G Gale, David McLean, Rodney Nelson, Ronnie M Lane, Duane Locke, Radames Ortiz and John Grey.

There is also an interview with author of "Hybrids" and environmental journalist, David Thorpe.

NB is now accepting submissions for Issue Five. To submit your work, please see the submission guidelines on our MySpace page or at the website.

Enjoy Issue Four!

- Sammi