GUD Magazine

Infobox Magazine
title = GUD Magazine


image_size = 200px
image_caption = Inaugural issue of "GUD Magazine".
publisher = Greatest Uncommon Denominator Publishing, Inc.
circulation = 400
frequency = 2 per year
language = American English, British English, Canadian English, Australian English
category = literature
editor = Rotational
firstdate = 2006
country = flag|United States
website = [http://www.gudmagazine.com www.gudmagazine.com]
issn = 1932-8222

"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 of 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.

GUD Magazine also features reviews of small press publications on-line, independent of its publication schedule.

The magazine, published twice yearly, is available for purchase in print and many electronic formats, including:

• Portable Document Format (PDF),
• Palm Doc (PDB),
• Rocket/REB1100 (RB),
• Microsoft Reader (LIT) - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible,
• Franklin eBookMan (FUB),
• hiebook (KML),
• Sony Reader (LRF),
• iSilo (PDB),
• Mobipocket (PRC), OEBFF Format (IMP).

Current and back issues may be purchased directly via the website, through [http://www.fictionwise.com/eBooks/GreatestUncommonDenominatorPublishingeBooks.htm/ Fictionwise] , [http://www.amazon.com/GUD-Magazine-Issue/dp/B001994430 Amazon Kindle] , and [http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000WGUT7Q Amazon] .

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 include Julia Bernd, Sal Coraccio, Kaolin Fire, Sue Miller and Debbie Moorhouse.

Trivia

* 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.

List of Editors

* Kaolin Fire, Issue 0; Spring 2007
* Sue Miller, Issue 1; Autumn 2007
* Sal Coraccio, Issue 2; Spring 2008
* Debbie Moorhouse, Issue 3; Autumn 2008
* Julia de Caradeuc Bernd, Issue 4; Spring 2009
* Kaolin Fire, Issue 5; Autumn 2009

Covers

Awards

Stories from GUD Issues 0 and 1 received 3 honorable mentions in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008:

# Steven J. Dines's "Unzipped"
# Sarah Singleton and Chris Butler's "Song of the Dead"
# Leslie Claire Walker's "Max Velocity"

External links

* [http://www.gudmagazine.com/ Official Website]
* [http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=117011656/ Official MySpace]
* [http://gud.livejournal.com// Official LiveJournal]
* [http://kaolin.gather.com/ Official Gather Namespace]
* [http://www.fictionwise.com/eBooks/GreatestUncommonDenominatorPublishingeBooks.htm/ Fictionwise E-Book Distribution]
* [http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000WGUT7Q Amazon Distribution]
* [http://www.amazon.com/GUD-Magazine-Issue/dp/B001994430 Amazon Kindle Distribution]