Just wanted to make two quick announcements:
1) The December issue of The Willows is completely finished
edit-wise. I am currently working with our brand-new art director, Jade Gordon, getting her all up to speed on our exacting standards for design. Thus, the issue may be delayed a tad beyond Christmas (to howls of rage and despair, I am sure). But! All issues henceforth will be much more efficiently created and shipped, once Jade's got her feet under her.2) The Willows is, I'll be frank, severely lacking advertisers these days. I don't know if you can help with that or not; if not, thanks for reading! If you might, please know that while advertisers may seem relatively unimportant (or even downright intrusive, though we do our best to avoid this) to the reader, it is they who pay for special guest authors like Sarah Monette, lovely cover art like Joanna's and Paul's, and all the other folks who don't (or can't) work pro bono, like most of the Willows staff do. So while I frequently say that the driving force behind the magazine is its readers, advertisers are like a maintenance crew: they keep the power-sucking engines of magazine literature in motion.
Thank you for your patience; we'll be there oh so soon! A Merry Christmas to all!
4 comments:
Off topic, because we've already talked about these things in other places, I have a tiny version of that Christmas Cthulhu hanging from my car's rear-view mirror.
Try soliciting advertisers. You surely have the publicity, NY Times coverage and all. I would reach out hard to anyone interested in the unique demographic that the Willows serves.
Also, I think it would be very helpful if complete TOCs were listed online. Looking for a back issue story or poem is difficult if not all the authors/titles are listed.
Keep up the good work!
What anonymous said about listing TOCs online is brilliant, and I put my wholehearted support behind it.
What about putting back issues online as pdfs for $? I only see the annual subscription and the last two issues. I feel like I should start at the beginning to catch up?
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