Roost Poll

(magazine or book?)

I have an important question for everyone who is interested in Roost: are you excited specifically because it is going to be in magazine form or is it just the content you're excited about? I ask because two possibilities present themselves to me:

ONE: Roost can be published solely as a seasonal magazine as I originally planned. This means it will come out whenever I can get it together to do it well. It might only come out four times a year, provided I don't get discouraged with it and just do one copy. The benefit is that when it comes out and you get a copy all of the articles will be completely fresh having not appeared anywhere else first. There's the anticipation factor as well- few things can rival the excitement of opening a new magazine!

TWO: Roost could be a website dedicated to high quality articles and tutorials to help everyone become better urban homesteaders with a possible book published at the end of the first year to serve as a permanent tangible resource on your bookshelf that includes all the best projects and information published on the website through the year. I would be the curator and editor of this website but I would use the talents of other writers and urban homesteaders to contribute material in addition to mine. It wouldn't have any of my personal writing on it- that would remain at Dustpan Alley. One of the benefits of doing it this way is that I would have a much longer period of time in which to learn layout for publishing and in the meantime I could get the website up and running with fantastic content within a couple of weeks.

What would you be more excited about? I tend to think a website with a book in twelve months is the way to go but I'm going to let you all decide. I've always wanted to do a magazine but I've also wanted to do a book so either way I'm going to be producing something I'm excited about and that I feel is missing from every one's home reference library. I'm making a poll and I would like you all to participate! There is an actual poll at the bottom of my blog.