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Midnight
Times
Once upon a time I decided to apply the HTML coding and web server administration skills I had learned, toward establishing an online literary/genre magazine (i.e. basically an e-zine) for new and beginning writers. Basically, that's how the Midnight Times (MT) got started. I have been amazed by all the manuscripts submitted for publication, and the high level of quality of the vast majority of them. I've had to turn down some good stuff simply because I don't have enough time and space to publish everything I like. The broad range of experience of the contributing authors has run from those who are getting their first publication, to others who have extensive lists of previous publication credits. To date, MT has published a wide variety of excellent works of poetry and fiction by both new and previously published authors.
Below is a synopsis of the primary content sections for the Midnight Times web site.
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If you are a writer interested in an opportunity to get published, and you have written work with a "darkness" theme, I encourage you to take a look at the MT submission guidelines. The guidelines page provides contact information, the MT mission statement, the quarterly publication dates, information about the MT theme, instructions for how to submit fiction and poetry to the Midnight Times, and everything else you need to know before you send me a manuscript.
Find out what's coming up in future issues of the Midnight Times. The Next Issue page provides a list of authors and works for upcoming issues, and indicates what the sub-themes are.
This page provides an ongoing list of links to previous issues of MT back to issue #1. A screen shot links to each issue. Each back issue page is featured as it was when it was the MT home page during that particular issue.
The Fiction & Poetry Archive is a comprehensive, chronological list of all previously published contributing authors and their works.
Time allowing and authors willing, JJ and I will continue to publish a new author interview in each issue of the Midnight Times.
TowerWeb
Productions
Back in 1995 I started working with the Internet. It didn't take long before I decided to set up my own domain. TowerWeb Productions (TWP) is essentially the umbrella domain for all of the web sites that I have pieced together here in my little chunk of cyberspace.
TowerWeb.Net
The TowerWeb.Net page is just one of several entryways to the main web sites featured on the TWP domain. In keeping with the metaphorical concept of a "tower," one can enter TowerWeb by clicking through the Gateway on this page.
Just as it says, the Table of Contents page is a listing of the main sections of the TowerWeb Productions web site in an outline format. It is essentially kind of a "site map." Visit this page for a concise list of links to all the primary TWP web page.
The Site Index is a comprehensive, alphabetical listing of all the TWP web pages.
I'm an Information Technology Manager for a county public library system, so I guess that's why I registered the AlternativeLibrary.com domain name way back in the late 90s. The original plan was to establish a kind of quasi digital library with original content on a specific range of topics, and links to quality web sites with related information. Over the years I've found it difficult to dedicate time to this section of the TWP site, but I check the links regularly. I'd say the site is more of a personal information portal with links to my own list of top sites on subjects that interest me.
All my life I've enjoyed watching vampire movies and reading vampire stories. The VampireCompendium.com site is a product of this interest. The site includes full text e-books of many of the best known works of vampire literature, as well as movie reviews and a picture gallery.
The Classical Mythology web site is primarily the result of a web site development course that I took while working on my M.A. in Information Science. We had to select a topic for our development project and build a web site based on that subject. I've always been into reading literature (my undergraduate degree is in English), so doing a web site on Classical Mythology seemed like a good idea. My primary focus was on pulling together e-books of the major primary works such as Homer's Odyssey and Ovid's Metamorphoses. I planned to do an extensive art gallery with classic works of art depicting scenes from the Greek and Roman myths, but I only got started with a few and have never had adequate time to add the other 300 or so images that I have. Years later it doesn't even seem all the important since most of them are available from other web sites.
It was actually a few years after the original Baldur's Gate game came out that I ended up buying it. I had no idea what to expect. Had I known I would end up wasting hundreds of hours of my life playing all of the major versions of BG, I might have put the box back on the shelf all those years ago. My severe addiction finally culminated in this web site.
The idea behind the LRC web site is similar to the Alternative Library, with the site serving primarily as a kind of personal portal with links to quality web sites on subject areas that relate to providing library services. Links to book publisher web sites, U.S. government web sites and web sites on intellectual property include several of the primary content areas in the LRC section.
I'm Working On It!
I guess I see this "Editorial Page" as a kind of portal to the TowerWeb Productions (TWP) domain--my chunk of cyberspace that I've acquired because I'm fascinated by the self-publishing opportunities the Internet provides. The TWP network of web sites is comprised of hundreds of web pages. Many of these pages provide static content that doesn't need constant maintenance. In terms of all the web site sections that reside on the TWP domain, it is in my best interest as a web developer to always be updating the information and providing new content on an ongoing basis. Posting new stuff every day would be ideal; however, I'm just one person, and like everything else, I wish I had a lot more time to devote to this particular project. As it is, I'm always working on something new for TWP, and right now the Midnight Times is at the top of my list of priorities.
Jay Manning
is Webhead
My name is Jay Manning, and way back in 1995 when I first started using the Internet, I created a Yahoo! E-mail account using "webhead54" as the userid. I still use that account to this day, and I've stuck with the "Webhead" moniker as my cyber handle. The "Jay Manning is Webhead" page is basically my biographical page. Among the topics you will find on this page: background information about why I established the TowerWeb Productions web site and a statement of my Information Technology credentials. If you want to know more about the person behind TWP and the Midnight Times, this is the web page to visit.
Epic Café
Think of the Epic Café as that lonely coffee shop off the beaten path. It's located somewhere down a dark side alley from what used to be Main Street a century ago. It's a place you only know about because some languid stranger who likes to frequent poetry readings shoved a flyer in your face at the local bookstore. The Epic Café is a metaphorical point in cyberspace that pulls together the literary threads of TowerWeb in a unique place that provides a single point of virtual access. Feel free to explore, but keep in mind that this is the realm of the imagination...
The Tome
(Work-in-Progress)
The Tome is kind of an artistic presentation of some of my works of fiction and poetry that I have published on the TWP web site. Periodically I add fiction and poetry to this section, which is basically my own, personal work-in-progress list.
Contact Me
For questions about the Midnight Times or for general publication information, please visit the Submission Guidelines page.
For questions about TowerWeb Productions or any of the TWP sections other than the Midnight Times, please visit my Contact Me web page.