How to publish a magazine Workshop (Recording) + Spellbound

This is the video recording of the How to publish a magazine workshop held by Melanie Johnsson on the 15th of March 2023. You’ll find the link to the recording in the PDF ready to download.

BONUS: This includes the digital version of Spellbound Magazine Issue 1

In this workshop, Melanie will be talking you through her experience self-publish her magazine Spellbound. She’s published two issues so far, doing everything from interviewing amazing people for the features to designing everything and dealing with printers, contributors and fulfilling orders herself. For the second issue, she brought talented contributors in - editors, writers and illustrators to enrich Spellbound and finally learn to delegate some things too…

She’s not going to lie, it was hard releasing a magazine during Covid and she knows it hindered her ability to get brick and mortar stockists, but she considered the whole venture very successful with people buying and reading Spellbound all over the world. She’ll be sharing her tips, tricks and what she learnt so far. See below to discover what we’ll cover during the workshop.

What we’ll cover:

• Coming up with a niche and core theme for your magazine

• Determining the editorial and art direction for your magazine

• Interviewing people and finding contributors

• Designing, illustrating, editing…To delegate or not to delegate?

• Dealing with the nitty gritty (ISSN numbers, bar codes, certifications…)

• Understanding printing (papers, finishing, numbers, cost…)

• Nailing the packaging and buying experience

• Finding PR help to get the word out

• Selling online and finding stockists

• Sharing other resources to self-publish your magazine