Tazzy Jenkins: Ok, well I'll start with me, I'm an SL work-aholic : ). I love creating things. My motto is "so many ideas, so little time". It's what I do with the majority of my time in SL. I own Tazzy's Tasty's. Hippie Haven, Perfect Day Wedding Store, The Grocery Store and of course Playmates. I have been on SL for a little over 2 yrs.
Suede Sixpence: Yes I do see your a busy woman, which of these enterprises was running first?
Tazzy Jenkins: Hippie Haven was 1st (I am a
Tazzy Jenkins: I love to read and so I subscribed to a lot of magazines and was very disappointed. There were so many ads. I had to wait for each page to rezz just for ads. So I decided to write my own magazine. Many of my friends were trying to get into modeling so I thought Playmates would be a wonderful outlet for my creativity and to help models get exposure.
Suede Sixpence: and your right about the ads it's too many. So back to your magazines,how many issues have you produced so far?
Tazzy Jenkins: 29 Playmates, we expanded with Boy Toy which is Bi-monthly and we are working on our 5th issue and the 4th Playmates After Dark
Suede Sixpence: What is the difference between Playmates and Playmates after dark?
Tazzy Jenkins: After Dark is an X-Rated version of Playmates, we try to keep Playmates classy and informative,We say Playmates is for your coffee table and After Dark is for your night stand".
Suede Sixpence: How do you find your models or do they tend to come to you, I would have thought you would be flooded with girls?
Tazzy Jenkins: we had so many request that we started a contest. Then they are used throughout the year for pictorials and appearances and the calender. So many women wanted to be in the magazine and at first we had a free contest where we (our staff) voted, but feelings got hurt, So then we had a voting system where you could only vote once. one day I got an IM from this girl who was so upset because none of her friends voted for her. She said she had been disfigured in RL and was living vicariously through her avi. It is the only way I know that "Anyone" can live out their dreams in actual fact we have had to give some make-overs to a few models before the shoots but in the end I thinks its the most fair system of choosing models for Playmates.
Suede Sixpence: It's true.. SL has a bad rap.. but honestly.. for people in Second Life.. who may not be how to say.. Richard Gere or Julia Roberts.. Second Life is a nice equalizer.
Tazzy Jenkins: A wonderful fantasy, lets face it in RL only a tiny percent make a mag cover.
Suede Sixpence: How much are the magazines?
Tazzy Jenkins: They are $99L because we only allow 10 or less ads but we are switching to free issues next month for more distribution. I think Playmates will blow up once we go free. I hope so, we really try hard to make it a quality mag, good to read and look at, the tiny print in many magazines doesn,t make since to me, if I cant read neither can anyone else. So we made ours with larger print and more pictures.
Suede Sixpence: oh btw.. your welcome to put a kiosk at the Zindra times office if you want
Tazzy Jenkins: wonderful! we will be setting up the Intelli-Kiosks soon, so all our publications will be free. However,we still have to pay upload charges, blank books and our staff as well as tiers and rent at several sales stores.
Suede Sixpence: So you will need adverts to recoup your costs
Tazzy Jenkins: no! never
Suede Sixpence: still no adverts.. so how you gonna break even?
Tazzy Jenkins: we decided we aren't in it to make a profit, so with the model fee's we can pull it off the contest boards I meant.
Suede Sixpence: yeah that is a good income generator, hopefully it will cover your publishing costs.
Suede Sixpence: Okay and how long does it take you to produce one copy.. do you do everything the editorials, articles and photography or do you have a team?
Tazzy Jenkins: I could never do 60+ pages alone! I have a wonderful co-owner, Carma Latte, she is the fearless one. I'm the quiet one behind the scenes. We also have writers and investigative reporters on staff
Suede Sixpence: ah hah.. what do you investigate
Suede Sixpence: smiles
Tazzy Jekins :nothing deep, mainly we like to tell our readers the truth about relationships, scams, etc as well as great entertainment places, shopping and new things to see and do. Sherlynn Donner and Katelin Skytower do a lot of the foot work for us.
Tazzy Jenkins: It's great exposure for models also, have had many centerfolds tell me later how much it boosted their careers
Suede Sixpence: Boosted their careers in what way?
Tazzy Jenkins: Having a 12 pg pictorial on their portfolio and the cover had given them exposure. several models said they were approached by fashion designers to model. I love hearing that.
Suede Sixpence: I did notice you had JJ on the cover, that is how I noticed the magazine in the first place.
Suede's notes
The books are in in intellibook format, and loaded quite quickly even on my state of the dump computer. Tazzy was very pleasant and obviously cares a lot about the quality of the magazines she produces, when they go to free publication, I dont see any reason why you should not get yourself a copy or 10 and pass them around to your mates along with a nice cold beer.
Oh and ladies, that boy toy is well worth looking at too..
Tazzy mentioned to me that she has started a small blog of her own, here is the website address.
www.playmatesmagazine.wordpress.com
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Endless%20Desire/237/240/22
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