We get this question a lot. "Do I Have To Order Magazines?"
The answer is NO!
Here is a breakdown of how we design the magazines.
We get a lot of interviews sent in, so we handle things like this.
We design pages for anyone who orders magazines first.
That way we know what issue they’re going in and send them the correct issue.
Once we design all of the pages attached to magazine orders, we look through the remaining interview submissions.
We review those and select the remaining interviews to fill the remaining pages in the.
We don’t design pages for everyone who submits.
This saves us time and money editing the words and designing pages in case we don’t hear back from artists.
We have put artists in the magazines and never heard back from them to approve their pages.
That means that we wasted time & money designing a page for them & they never said anything after we sent them the page for approval.
This is no different than you, an artist, do not begin to design tattoo without a deposit.
The non-refundable deposit you require ensures that if you never hear back from the client your time is not wasted.
Please keep in mind that the only way to know exactly what issue that you are in is to pre-preorder them. Otherwise, your page might be moved to an issue that we have space in if the current issue fills up.
If you decide not to pre-order & your page gets moved, you will need to look in the FREE DIGITAL ISSUE to make sure what issue you are in before ordering.
When you locate your article, you can head over and order those issues if any are available.
We suggest ordering magazines in advance because we will not have a large inventory of old magazines.
For any questions, please feel free to email us at editor@thetattooindustry.com for assistance.