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Who's in the February 2011 Writing Magazines due out 6th January '11?
Daisy, your cover looked good!
Congrats to all who are in the magazines.
Thoughts, I do not like the two in one, it is too bulky and means a LOT of page turning for me as I am not interested in any of the market information. Diana Cambridge managed to annoy the hell out of me (she does every month) and most of the rest of it remains unread. Not seen much in the way of 'improvements' yet and the coffee stains are plain silly. Found at least one typo, and that's with not reading very much!!!!!!!! Make that two mistakes...
I used to get Junior Education mag when I was teaching and there was always a middle section with wall display poster, which you had to tug to get out without tearing it. I think I am used to doing it.
thanks for the tip! But it would be better not to have to do it, come on, you mean bunch, go back to two magazines! Or combine them into one, this way is silly.
I'll leave the magazine as it is, it will be on its way shortly to someone else, they can decide to pull it out if they wish. I don't keep any copies here.
Sudden thought, since when has flash fiction been 3000 words???? (Kinglake Flash competition.)
the coffee stains are as silly as the intrusive clock we had on the Writing Day page back when ... that disappeared, with luck, these will too. Not exactly professional!
My copy has arrived at last. I found it very unwieldy and detached the WN section before I began to read - cutting my hand on one of the staples as I did so. I do hope this is a one off.
For the first time ever mine has not arrived on time. I suppose I can't really complain. (taps fingers on desk impatiently)
Well done Kateyanne, RichT (I've missed seeing you up there with the winners!), Daisy and Sallyj - I am looking forward to reading it all when it arrives. (more finger tapping)
you have my sympathies Mutley and Jenny, although mine has arrived on time, twice it hasn't done and it isn't nice is it when everyone else has got their's
Seems to go in cycles. I have a couple of months when it arrives early or on the expected delivery date, then I get a couple of months when it is consistently late...
Ive just bought my copy of WM from Tesco, and yes, the WN was inside the mag. I cancelled my subscription as I felt it was all getting a bit stale, but am loving the fresh new look and feel of the mag now - may just subscribe again!
Congratulations to this month's successes, though I haven't seen your names myself yet, still waiting for the magazines. Can't complain though as I usually get them on time.
Still not had mine, decided to phone them on Saturday, a very nice lady looked me up on her computer, all ok, but nothing to say they had posted it, she was going to check (today ) with the correct department and phone me back with an explanation, as she said it should have been dispatched. We will see if they do get back to me, or if my copy turns up today.
mail is all over the place still, the Sorting Office staff told me this morning they are still clearing a backlog which has only just arrived. An order took a month to reach the States, and it's been like that with a load of other orders and letters, too. I had a huge heap this morning, mail, Amazon, ebay, all sorts.
The magazines are out there somewhere!
A referal letter for one of my sons sent in late November, early December by the Senco at my sons school never arrived at all. I was ringing her this morning to find out if she'd heard anything and she hadn't. So she rang them and they have no record of it.
So it has to be done again but instead of the short form it is now a long form so we are getting together next week to fill it in.
Just got these two mags as was bored in Sainsburys. Yes I did notice the stain! And Rich T, saw your face, knew i knew you! Congrats to all.
Why does Diana Cambridge irritate you Dorothy? She lives nearish and invited a friend and me to her house once to the launch party of one of Crysse Morrison's books. Crysse Morrison being our ex-creative writing tutor. She was lovely!
She was a fab tutor. Very inspiring and very encouraging. The very first thing I wrote in my very first creative writing lesson, she said, you are a poet. I said I didn't want to be as poets never make any money. How prophetic. Of us both.
wish I knew why she irritates me. I think there is a touch of patronising going on and on a few occasions she has been wildly wrong with her answers. I feel sometimes the questioners need more basic advice than she gives, too.
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Just received my copy; congratulations to richt as well!
Congrats to all who are in the magazines.
Thoughts, I do not like the two in one, it is too bulky and means a LOT of page turning for me as I am not interested in any of the market information. Diana Cambridge managed to annoy the hell out of me (she does every month) and most of the rest of it remains unread. Not seen much in the way of 'improvements' yet and the coffee stains are plain silly. Found at least one typo, and that's with not reading very much!!!!!!!! Make that two mistakes...
Just makes me feel really thick for not thinking of it myself!
I'll leave the magazine as it is, it will be on its way shortly to someone else, they can decide to pull it out if they wish. I don't keep any copies here.
Sudden thought, since when has flash fiction been 3000 words???? (Kinglake Flash competition.)
Rich, lovely story!
SallyJ, congrats, looks useful for a lot of people.
Haven't noticed any coffee stains and doubt it would bother if I did.
Hope none of you who are complaining went on the Nano site. There was a huge one there on the entrant's profile page.
No, I didn't do nano, so didn't go there.
They've been there for a few months now.
congrats daisy, kateyanne, sallyj and RichT
I agree. It's a bit like having this website with fake computer viruses flashing all over it!
Lovely story, Richt
Well done Kateyanne, RichT (I've missed seeing you up there with the winners!), Daisy and Sallyj - I am looking forward to reading it all when it arrives. (more finger tapping)
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The magazines are out there somewhere!
So it has to be done again but instead of the short form it is now a long form so we are getting together next week to fill it in.
Why does Diana Cambridge irritate you Dorothy? She lives nearish and invited a friend and me to her house once to the launch party of one of Crysse Morrison's books. Crysse Morrison being our ex-creative writing tutor. She was lovely!