ThWaC: Our website launches early!

This Week at Carminica, we launched our website! Going forward, we will try to have weekly updates about what’s happening here at our collective and post it all here for communication and posterity. Our website will soon host a myriad of interesting tidbits and things to see:

• Event post for our next publication, This Road Leads Home To Me, is live! RSVP here!

• Our company email was set up but is not working for some reason.

• More info about us and how we publish is up on their own pages!

Hello! My name is Calvin and I am the Executive Director of Carminica Obsidion Collective. This website has been a long time coming (I bought the domain over a year ago) and I am happy to have it launched now! New content and features will be added to the site as time goes on (feel free to make suggestions!), with store functionality planned to be added in next weeks update.

Our company has been around officially since 2021 but our group started as one dedicated to creative writing about a year earlier. We were looking to publish our own stories when we uncovered the extent of the corruption in this industry and decided to make our own “ideal” and actually ethical publishing company. Carminica was born from this, and over the past few years we’ve seen terrific work and amazing artists. It’s time to expand now, and get out on the web now that I feel we are ready.

Carminica is all about being a company of writers & artists and I cannot wait to share our services with the world. Our company was founded with the promise to put labor and quality first, and I hope it shows! We pride ourselves here on the principles of open communication and transparency (something that other publishers lack entirely) as well as never using “corporate” speak, not only because its awful but also because me and Ryan (our Creative Director) are autistic and can’t understand it.

I hope to be writing one of these every week sharing what’s happening here at our collective with the flair and vibe we cultivate, all in the sort of style of the long-lost “This Week at Bungie” posts (TWAB) before Sony got involved. Carmine Colophons are going to be a lot less formal and have direct communication to anyone reading, and hopefully you will all enjoy it.

By the way, Colophon is defined as, “a publisher's emblem or imprint, especially one on the title page or spine of a book.” We are very proud of our emblem and what we stand for, so it’s only fitting.

- Calvin

P.S., I just stumbled across the word if you’re wondering.