JetGirlArt
JetGirlArt
Melinda Wyers
Hello, my name is Melinda and I do quite a few things. I am a writer / designer living in Texas. I currently run the Y2K Quarterly literary magazine. My work can be read in Rejection Letters, Free Radicals Magazine, and HAD. This site is for my personal blog and various project updates. You can read my self published work at Moonlit Radio.
Latest Posts
That's what that title sounds like, lol. The kids were watching the Nintendo announcement video yesterday to see what kind of shenanigans were going on in Switchland. I sat and watched it with them to see if there was going to be...
So I got that little zine marketplace site to work locally on my machine. Got it hooked up to the stripe sandbox stuff to test payments and it all worked just fine. I added a bunch of dummy zines to test the checkout and user reading...
That's what videogames are for, right? Driving around in the cars you can never afford? Racing like gas isn't 5 dollars a gallon? Where if you work in a pizza shop or cafe you actually make money? Where if you throw a rod into a pond you...
"Wrestling is fake!" Well, no. It's not fake, it's choreographed, practiced, and performed by athletes who spend hours in the gym to safely do their part. That's like saying a play isn't real. Is it a MMA fight or boxing match? No, but...
I can ride a bike just fine. As a kid I had the little red tricycle and moved up to a pink Huffy with tassels and training wheels sometime around kindergarten. We lived on a narrow unmarked road as a kid so watching for cars was...
So a while back I wrote a post about zines. In that post I talked about how I felt that making a marketplace for zines would be too difficult to monetize. And by monetize I don't mean make me money but generate enough money to pay for...
this post is in response to this post by lwgrs and this post by donthave2sting. I am also not going to talk about shortwave radio in this post as it's outside the scope of these two but historically speaking it predates FM radio and was...
I have to preface this with the fact that I am objectively bad at shooter games. Worse when I am on a team where my job is to assist. Last week my husband was playing ARC Raiders after work and mentioned the fact we never play videogames...
In 2009 I started my first little zine. Back then I still did art full time and kept up with my artist friends and such. The zine was online, just a self hosted Wordpress site (It's all I knew how to do.) on a $5 a month cheap host. I...
I have a couple of episodes sketched out for the next season of Y2KFM and was checking out what is popular in the podcast world. I have my handful of go-to podcasts to listen to in the car when dropping off/picking up kids and going to...
I'm taking a quick break this evening from my RPG story to air out my head a little. So as with any story I write I do a bunch of research and refresh my memory on how things were or are. What I remember about a video game from twenty...
Last night I spent some time talking to folks about books. I have several half finished stories that need to get wrapped up and I wanted to plan how I published them to get max eyes on words. Most people I know don't sit and read books....
I have too many pots on the stove. The magazine, the podcast, the ramen website, my own writing, the shop... I can't do all of that on my own. So. If Hardcopy doesn't take off by the end of the year, I'll just sunset it after Christmas...
I spent the entire day cleaning and fixing up Game Boys for the market event in May. The consoles will run around 150-250 dollars depending on if they have mods or just new shells and batteries. Knowing full well I might sell a single...
Thyroid doc visit tomorrow. I haven't been checking on my emails or anything outside of phone messages for about a week now. Friend showed me a 20 yr old photo from college and it reminded me of how I wasn't smart enough to get anything...