Birth of an e-zine

ACT III
The Birth of an E-zine
By Associate Editor Sticktalker

         Well what do we have here? Our very own Paper Doll literary magazine.
         You all need to know that this is the brainchild of Mystic_Writer, a member of the first class of dolls.
         Mystic bounced the idea off me and we discussed it several times and then she went to the Big Boss, Hannah, the founder and leader of The Dolls, who approved of the idea and said, “OK, you’re the editor, go do it!”
         If you’ve been around Hannah for any length of time, you’d know that she just LOVES to give you a project and tell you to run with it; classic case of, “If you don’t want to chair the project, don’t suggest it at the board meeting.”
         At any rate, Mystic started working on the magazine and it was only a day or two when she started bouncing more ideas off myself and others both in the Dolls and outside. The name is her idea. It’s a good name, it COULD have been worse you know. Imagine if she called it “Dark Shadows”?  Brrrrr, gothic mystery. Worse would have been “No Shadows”, but that’s only because it makes no sense at all to me.
         The plan, as Mystic outlines it, is to have each class of Dolls submit query letters, then follow up with sending electronic copies of their pieces in for submission, have them “reviewed” and sent back for “edits”, etc. When a piece is accepted, they’ll be “paid” in GPs. In other words work it the way it works in the “real world.”
         However, since the project started off late this first time Kathy decided to have the students submit two pieces and she and the editorial staff selected one to publish. They also picked a grand prize winners for both the prose and poetry entries.
         I think we should all stand, virtually, and give Kathy a wonderful round of applause...and maybe some GPs too!
         Hopefully the entries will remain visible for several years as we publish three editions a year at the end of each Doll Semester and feature the students from that class.
Sticky

Featured in Shadows: A Paper Doll Gang Publication Volume 1: Issue 1, May 2009

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