From the cached About page:Alternating Current is pleased to offer editing services to writers in all stages of their writing careers. Whether seeking syntax or story, we’ll help you create a strong finished product of which you can be proud. We are lucky to have Eric Shonkwiler as the head of our Editing Services Department [...]
$2.25 per page/copyediting
$3.55 per page/developmental
Alternating Current began in 1993, first under the Lansing-/Detroit-based Broadway Kids Productions, then the Chicago-based Spy Kids Productions (Yes, prior to the ridiculous movie!), then the Seattle-based Indie Arts Co-op, then the Boston-/Cambridge-based Alternating Current Arts Co-op, changing as we transitioned through time and puberty and high school and college and cities and interests and hobbies. We are San Francisco-/Palo Alto-based pseudo-adults now, with art, science, and history backgrounds, who have merged the best of all of these worlds to form a company that encompasses a whole spectrum of different meanings and evokes beautiful, intense, and passionate imagery [...]
We encompass an independent press company, Alternating Current, that features numerous ongoing publications; an independent arts catalog and marketplace, also under the umbrella of Alternating Current; a record label, Not Really Records; a theater company, That Other Theater Co., an online library of independent zines and small press publications, Izla; and a burgeoning history documentation project, History Deletes Itself; as well as sponsoring the annual writing awards, The Luminaire Award for Best Prose and Best Poetry and The Charter Oak Award for Best Historical. The company’s founder, Leah Angstman, is a jack-of-all-(art)-trades, schizophrenically specializing in and bouncing between writing, editing, publishing, musical theater, and history. The company’s other founder ... well, he’s an anonymous scientist.
[...] we work hard to bring you materials and resources that are effective and inexpensive. The large majority of the money we make off the selling of products or benefit shows goes back into making new products and bringing new art to the mainstream. The little bit left over to feed us Ramen noodles and to buy a few postage stamps barely covers the costs of the Alternating Current rental space, so any donation you could give out of the kindness of your creative mind would help us immensely in furthering our efforts to keep art from being just a luxurious afterthought. Please donate what you can; no amount is too small.
We give you many resources and opportunities to make amazing art and to market it to the masses. So you have no excuse.
We never have free reading periods for manuscripts because we read only for the Electric Book Awards, which are generally our only published books per year. But if we favorited you on Twitter for #PITMAD, then that means that you have the type of book we’d really love to read for our contest, so you have a better chance of winning the monetary prize and top-notch publication, plus fantastic marketing products, like audiobooks, book trailers, book tours, and more. If you get chosen, we promise to love your book so hard that it is sure to be a success. Each submission also comes with a complimentary PDF copy of one of our books, too, so you never go home empty-handed.
Anyone have more recent dealings? I'm trying to figure out what they pay in their The Coil magazine, they don't say out right. It does seem like they've grown a bit since some of these initial posts.
Our feedback is sincerely honest. It’s not always sweet, and it’s not always kind. It’s rarely going to be in your favor, but it will make you a better writer. Listen: We pride ourselves on that, and we aim to keep it that way. We don’t hold your hand or coddle you. IF YOU CANNOT TAKE TOUGH CRITICISM, DO NOT ASK FOR FEEDBACK.
Responses can take up to 6 months, but we aim to have responses back within 2 months. Please do not follow up on your submission. If we decline your submission, it isn’t personal. Please refrain from sending snarky response emails, and try again with something new. If we accept your manuscript, then it is automatically sent to the semifinalist round for your respective category award, and you’ll hear the results during award-announcement times. We often accept submissions several years out, so do not expect instant publication. DO NOT approach our readers about your manuscript before they have read it, or it will be disqualified and rejected unread.
Anyone have more recent dealings? I'm trying to figure out what they pay in their The Coil magazine, they don't say out right.
We pay a tiny token for all the work we accept.
Anyone have more recent dealings? I'm trying to figure out what they pay in their The Coil magazine, they don't say out right. It does seem like they've grown a bit since some of these initial posts.