ROBERT-E-HOWARD:
Electronic Amateur
Press Association
CALL for NEW MEMBERS!
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Please e-mail
application materials (as described below),
comments, suggestions, and/or constructive criticisms to:
reheapa@robert-e-howard.org
DEADLINES for Official
Postings
E-Zines, E-Journals, E-Art Portfolios, and all other Materials for Inclusion:
PLEASE NOTE: Material Previously Published in Print Format is WELCOME!
Republication of previous work is not only premitted but encouraged.
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ELCOME to a vision and a model of an online "Electronic Amateur Press
Association" [EAPA]--
modelled after the proven methods of Amateur Press Associations in the print
medium. Welcome to ROBERT-E-HOWARD.
Each
quarter, on the Vernal and Autumnal Equinoxes and on the Summer and Winter
Solstices, a collection of the contributed Howard-related e-zines/e-journals of
up to 12 members will be placed online in an Official
Posting [OP]
As
with almost all APAs, frequent submissions to the Official Postings of the
Association are required of members in order to remain in good standing.
However, members need not post each and every quarter. Submission of material
according to the regulations explained below is expected.
The
power of hypermedia offers many options and advantages for the 21st century
amateur press association, among them:
The Age of Print is
giving way to the Age of Hypermedia as a great communication shift is well
underway. Part of the concept of Robert-E-Howard: Electronic Amateur Press
Association is to explore the potentialities of this new communications epoch.
RULES AND REGULATIONS
FOR MEMBERSHIP
1. Consideration for membership requires:
§ 1) an e-letter of application, formally
stating ones wish to become a member of ROBERT-E-HOWARD;
§ 2) the submission of a first issue of an
electronic magazine or journal [e-zine] of at least 750 words of text on
matters relevant to the life, work, milieu, or literary significance of Robert
Ervin Howard (and following other guidelines set forth below for the format and
content of such e-zines);
§ 3) andTHERE WILL BE NO INITIAL MEMBERSHIP FEE
although, the Active Membership might consider the merits of such a measure at
some time in the future.
2. VERY IMPORTANT POINT: Previously published
work, either in print and/or digital on-line format IS BOTH ACCEPTABLE AND
ENCOURAGED for submission as part of or the entirety of any e-zine . The only restriction is that the author still
owns the copyright at the time of submission and has not sold or relinquished
copyright in any way. In this way, it is hoped that some would become AMs who
are already members of other APAs or REH interest groups (especially members of
REHupa and other groups like the Howardian e-mail discussion lists at
groups.yahoo.com, AND that they would seriously consider submitting (or
revising, updating, polishing, and submitting) some of their excellent past
work that has seen either no publication thus far or very limited publication
within the confines and limited circulation of a print APA.
3. The submitted e-zine must have a distinctive
and unique title on its "home," "index," or first page
(with the first submitted e-zine of any given title to be given precedence in
keeping that title).
4. The submitted e-zine must be in either
web-browser-readable format (HTML, DHTML, XML, etc.), readable in BOTH Netscape
Navigator/Communicator and Microsoft Internet Explorer -- AND/OR -- in Portable
Document Format (.pdf) [Adobe's Acrobat Reader format available at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html
as a free download].
[NOTE: For those who are not HTML-savvy, the major
word processors allow a "SAVE AS HTML" option, so knowing
hypertext mark-up language is not absolutely essential to be a member of the
association.]
5. A Wait List [WL] of no more than 3 persons beyond the 12 active members will be
allowed at any given time. Should the wait list drop to fewer than 3, postings
of WL openings will be announced at various Robert E. Howard related online
discussion groups and, possibly, advertised in various print zines and
journals.
6. Each e-zine submission by an Active Member [AM] must be a minimum of 1000 words of text. This
would be the Minimum Acceptable
Word Count [MINAWC] for
any e-zine submitted.
7. AMs must contribute e-zines to at least two
OPs within any given calendar year [the four OPs in a calendar year to be
conside#990000 a VOLUME (Volume I, 2001, etc.)] or they will be dropped from
active membership in the group and a person or persons on the WL invited to
join in the chronological order in which they fulfilled the initial membership
application essentials [The essentials being: 1) e-letter of application
stating an interest in joining and 2) a qualifying e-zine]. This represents the
Minimum Annual
Submission [MINAS]. [IMPORTANT NOTE:
Members who Activate after the initial issue [Vernal Equinox] for any given
yearly volume must contribute to at least one other posting prior to the
anniversary of their membership AND ALSO have at least two postings in
the calendar/the Volume AFTER their activation to fulfill this requirement.
This is to get all members on the equal footing of contributing at least
twice in any given calendar year/Volume of the OP, and also to demonstrate
earnestness on the part of the new AM.]
8. A further stipulation is that an AM must not
miss three consecutive OPs, regardless of calendar year, without being dropped. This would prohibit AMs from missing as many
as four OPs in a row (for example: the last two of one calendar year and the
first two of the next).
9. AMs should also include at least 1000 words of
Posting Comments Section(s) [PCS] per calendar year/Volume. This total word
count is IN ADDITION TO the MINAWCs. In this section/these sections AMs
will comment on the contributions of other members and respond to their
respective e-zines. NOTE: These Posting Comments are made in the
PRIVATE/Members Only password protected area of the site.
10. Wait Listers [WLs] will be granted
PRIVATE/Members Only access.
11. Any and all revenues will go toward:
§ 1) the initial registration ($75) and annual
charges ($35) on a domain name [www.robert-e-howard.org],
§ 2) on whatever web-hosting charges are needed
for the virtual hosting of the domain name (estimated at $300+ per annum),
§ 3) perhaps eventually, a dedicated web
server [NOTE: If an actual server were ever purchased, members could use space
for related postings or posting of their own individual REH web sites -- an
added "perk", and
§ 4) any other Association or Howardian
activities deemed to be appropriate by the Association, such as support for REH
studies, conferences, conventions, Project Pride in Cross Plains, etc..
§ NOTE: Incorporation as a not-for-profit, educational will be
investigated and discussed by the founding membership.
12. Except for the right to post each
password-protected OP and the password-protected Archive of the accumulating
Volumes of OPs, Robert-E-Howard would seek no rights to indiviual AM's
e-zines/e-journals. In short, all rights would be retained by the respective
AMs for their own work, except for the Official Postings themselves and the
archival of such (again, established with various access levels at the
respective AMs discretion).
13. SUBMITTING ZINES AND JOURNALS:
These should be sent as e-mail attachments or mailed on a 100 MB Zip Disk
(Iomega technology) or CD-ROM disk to the Official Online Editor [OOE], who
also acts as Treasurer of Robert-E-Howard and as web master for the official
site. The OOE must be a contributing AM in good standing and is elected or
re-elected annually near/at the time of the final OP of the year [Winter Solstice].
Any AM may nominate him/herself for this office or may nominate any other AM,
with nominations due near/at the time of the penultimate OP of the year
[Autumnal Equinox].
Please send submissions to: reheapa@robert-e-howard.org
OR directly to the Official Online Editor, Frank Coffman at:
fcoffman@robert-e-howard.org
or to yet another alternate e-mail address:
fcoffman@pobox.com
Other
Points for Consideration:
STATEMENT OF COPYRIGHT
(c)
ALL
Issues of Member Journals, ALL Articles and Items therein, and ALL complete
Official Postings of this Association, at whatever level of access, are ©
Copyrighted on or before the date of the Official Posting. The individual
contributors retain all rights to their material subsequent to the Official
Posting of REHeapa which postings should be considered as a publication under
the granting of First International Serial Rights ONLY.
All
Rights Reserved. Reproduction or republication in any form or any medium is
prohibited without express permission from the individual author.
Robert-E-Howard: Electronic Amateur Press Association requests that we be
notified of any links to this site and any URL beginning <
http://www.robert-e-howard.org > E-mail editor@robert-e-howard.org ,
Robert-E-Howard: EAPA concerning such notifications, requests for permission to
reprint or use copyrighted material, or inquiries.
Graphic
files are "watermarked" to trace violations of the reproduction of
graphic elements displayed. Graphic images created by the contributors to
REHeapa are copyrighted also, and permission to use such must be formally
requested.
The
Association will assist the individual Active Members in discovering and
sanctioning (to the extent of litigation against) individuals who violate these
copyrights.
Comments,
suggestions, and questions may also be directed to: editor@robert-e-howard.org.
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