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## When money is involved in a project, I tend to want to know who is handling the money, but there is zero information about who is organizing this project. Could you add an FAQ or something to cover this topic?

Thank you for asking this! I’ve put this information together previously in individual inquiries, but I will create a dedicated FAQ page across the board: Google Drive, Tumblr page, and on our Discord server.

Let me tell you about our present moderator lineup, to assuage some concerns.

Moderator Egon (Egon on AO3) is a researcher and academic publisher with strong nonfiction credentials and experience in editing/calls for papers. He will be the primary point of contact for emails/twitter/discord inquiries. Egon has been writing fanfiction for approximately 15 years, across LJ kink-memes, Dreamwidth, fic-exchanges and more. His experience with zines largely comes from the editorial aspect and writing bios, and he’ll function as our administrator and line editor.

Moderator Jack (jackcloverway) is a commercial illustrator and comic convention vendor. They have contributed to half a dozen zines as guest-art, and have produced art books, colouring books, and more for their own ventures. Most of these zines have been charity zines, so they’re familiar with the preorder practices, communicating transparency, and ensuring that everything is above-board. Jack has also worked with the Artist Alley Network International, and AANI-Group Orders for bulk shipments and fulfillment, and will likely be handling the financial transfers/storefront/fulfillment so that Paypal does not put a freeze on our funding. Jack has hooked us up with all of our manufacturers, and we look forward to introducing some of the stickers, prints, charms, and more for future volumes.

Moderator Deebs (fini-mun) is a freelance illustrator and popular fandom artist, with children’s book illustrations and commission streams alike under their belt. Deebs has contributed to another half-dozen zines, and is a close collaborator with Jack. They will primarily focus on helping Jack with book formatting for the printer, and minor art adjustments, but the first volume will probably see less involvement from them as they finish up a personal project. Deebs will work on overviews for art submissions and make revision requests so all the art will print beautifully and represent the artists’ visions as best as possible.

Moderator Emma (dogsarerad?) is a recent addition with the departure of another editor mod for health reasons. Her primary involvement is going to be on the administrative end, functioning as a transitional between Egon’s communications between artists and customers, and spreadsheets/fulfillment arrangements for Jack. In addition to being a genuinely cool human being, Emma also has a Great Dog, and if you’re part of our staff, you might just see pictures in the break room!

All funding will be accounted for. At time of posting, we have 23 confirmed creators on staff, including mods-who-are-creating, which will give us a minimum print run of 50 copies. The digital/physical preorders will allow us to gauge consumer interest and compensate the creators with a copy of the volume they contributed to, but the initial print run itself will be funded by Mod Egon, so we are guaranteeing that it will be printed. The print run size determines the Price Per Quantity of books; a larger print run means each individual copy is cheaper, which allows us to lower the asking price for the books, and donate more to the selected charity. Once the initial print run has been reimbursed, all proceeds will go to the charity – for the first volume, it’s the Internet Archive. Any future editions of that book will follow the initial funding strategy: Egon or Jack will purchase a set quantity, and a portion of each sale will go to reimbursement (re PPQ) with the remainder donated to the charity it is associated with.

I hope this helps!