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Interact with Intertext

© Rickey R. Mallory

Intertext is slick and stylish, with attributes of the best magazines, not just webzines. The front page is clean and crisp, with a magazine 'look' to it. It's informative and easy to understand, not too cluttered. It has a masthead, which I think is important, to let surfers and visitors know they're looking at a webzine and not just somebody's self-indulgent web page. The masthead sports the volume and issue number, very professional, and the title, which for Intertext is "The Online Fiction Magazine, publishing on the net since 1991." They even tell us when the next issue is due. This is a class act.

The editors are Jason Snell (jsnell@intertext.com) and Geoff Duncan (geoff@intertext.com).

The magazine can be downloaded in a bunch of formats, including pdf and rocketbook format, as well as text. It can also be read on the web.

There are five stories in the current issue. They appear to range from SF to fantasy. The stories are polished, which indicates a rigorous editing process, another sign of a good magazine. The blurbs on the stories are derivative of Analog blurbs, which drew me into the stories right away. I'd say these guys are bowing to Analog, which is a nice magazine to aspire to. :)

The guidelines indicate they accept mainstream, SF/F, horror, and cross-genre stories. They don't pay, but they don't charge either, even though they go to a lot of trouble to create several options for downloading.

They have slick cover art, but no illustrations for stories. This is just a personal observation, but I enjoy illustrations with each story.

I could go on, but it's obvious I really like this magazine. I'm upping it's rating to 5 stars.

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