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!
