Greatest Uncommon Denominator Magazine (also known as GUD Magazine) is an American literary magazine, the first publication from Greatest Uncommon Denominator Publishing, founded in Laconia, New Hampshire in July 2006.
Format and periodicity Greatest Uncommon Denominator contains literary and genre fiction, poetry, essays, and art and features authors and artists from around the world. GUD pays semi-pro rates for content and pays royalties on the profits of the sales of the magazine, effectively making the contributors shareholders for that issue."Literary MagNet: News and Trends", Poets & Writers Nov/Dec 2008"Guidelines: Getting Paid", GUD Magazine
GUD Magazine also features reviews of small press publications on-line, independent of its publication schedule.
The magazine, published irregularly, is available for purchase in print and many electronic formats, including:
Portable Document Format (PDF) Palm Doc (PDB) Rocket Reader/REB1100 (RB) Microsoft Reader (LIT) - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible Franklin eBookMan (FUB) hiebook (KML) Sony Reader (LRF) iSilo (PDB) Mobipocket (PRC) OEBFF format (IMP)
1871 submissions were read and responded to between July 2006 to the end of January 2007. The initial print run for Issue 0 was 200 copies, which was quickly followed up by an additional print run of 200. As of June, 2009, over 11,000 responses have been sent—with a record of over 800 submissions coming in during May, 2009."Guidelines: Submission Statistics", GUD Magazine Working towards its goal of paying out royalties to its contributors, GUD boosted its circulation of early issues from 400 to 700 in the last week of November 2009 with its "pay what you want" sale."GUD Magazine's "Pay What You Want" Sale", GUD Magazine
Ownership The magazine is a publication of GUD Publishing, Inc., an organization started in 2006 by Mike Coombes, Sal Coraccio, Kaolin Fire, and Sue Miller. As of February 2007, the active members included Julia Bernd, Sal Coraccio, Kaolin Fire, Sue Miller and Debbie Moorhouse.
List of editors Kaolin Fire, Issues 0+5 Sue Miller, Issues 1+8 Sal Coraccio, Issue 2 Debbie Moorhouse, Issues 3+6 Julia de Caradeuc Bernd, Issues 4+7
Awards
T. L. Morganfield, ‘Night Bird Soaring’,"Night Bird Soaring by T. L. Morganfield", GUD Issue 3, Autumn, 2008 Issue #3: Sidewise Awards (Shortlisted: Best Short-Form Alternate History 2009)"Sidewise Awards for Alternate History", June, 2009
Kirstyn McDermott, ‘Painlessness’,"Painlessness by Kirstyn McDemott", GUD Issue 2, Spring, 2008 Issue #2: Aurealis Awards (Best Horror Short Story, 2008)"Aurealis Awards Winners" , January 24, 2009 and Ditmar Awards (Best Novella/Novelette 2009)"The Ditmar Awards Announced" , June 7, 2009
Neal Blaikie, ‘Offworld Friends are Best’,"Offworld Friends are Best by Neal Blaikie", GUD Issue 2, Spring, 2008 Issue #2: Locus Recommended Reading List, 2008 "Locus 2008 Recommended Reading List", February, 2009
Stories from GUD Issues 0 and 1 received 3 honorable mentions in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Awards 2008:"YBF&H Honorable Mentions" , Ken Schneyer, October 2, 2008
Steven J. Dines's "Unzipped" Sarah Singleton and Chris Butler's "Songs of the Dead" Leslie Claire Walker's "Max Velocity"
In 2008, GUD was considered one of the "Top 100 Markets for Magazine Writers and Book Writers" by Writer's Digest."Hot Markets: Top 100 Markets for Magazine Writers and Book Writers" , Writer's Digest, February, 2008
See also List of literary magazines
Notes and references
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