All set to start work on the final preparations for Forbidden Fruit. Every time a new issue's due we get a sudden flurry of work when everything becomes due at once - the articles, the stories, the contracts, the artwork, the design and html programming of all the content - and muggins here runs round in ever decreasing circles trying to get it all done. There's usually a point where my head hits the desk and I think I'm never going to make it, but every issue so far has been up and running on time so I've managed it somehow. LOL. And these days I have valuable and much appreciated assistance from my fellow partners in crime (aka editors) Emily Veinglory and Kay Derwydd, as well as our growing team of regular contributors, who help everything to run more smoothly.
Even so, we're tossing around ideas for submission deadlines and reading periods now that the magazine is so popular. We're getting rougly three times as many submissions per issue as we used to and it can be hard finding time to read them all in the middle of other work. Having a reading period blocked into the diary ought to make it easier to sit down and concentrate on the magazine's content and nothing else for a couple of weeks - but we'll have to try it and see.
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