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Who's in the March 2011 Magazines due out on 6th February?
Who's in March's 2011 WM/WN issues?
The magazines are due out soon.
(Not sure if the 6th Feb as listed in the magazine is correct as the 6th is a Sunday...)
If you spot yourself, please let us know which magazine and which page; and the name the article appears under if it differs from your Talkback name. If you spot someone else, PLEASE LET THEM post the details here.
Remember: if mentioning a story, don't give the ending away.
(When the magazines arrive please use this thread- it will drop down the pages in the meantime.)
Comments
My magazines came today - I spotted another tber's book cover and article about her publisher in it too, but will leave her to say ;)
Daisy, not sure if I'm the person you mean, but on p.11 of the Writers' News Section there's an article about my publisher, Phoenix Yard Books, with the cover picture of 'Coping with Chloe'. A complete surprise to me - I'm delighted!
(Think the threads may now have been combined!)
Apologies for any inconvenience.
Well done Montholon, Rosalie (Phoenix Yard seem a lovely bunch), and everyone else.
Now I can go look at the rest of it, perhaps. Talk about off putting ...
I thought I once saw Marcus Brigstocke in drag staring out at me from a WMag cover
wouldn't have thought having WRITING tattooed on your forehead helps much either, the photographer, or whoever sets the cover, has not taken into account the fact there'd be so much surrounding writing. The title cuts the face off at the wrong point
Congratulations to all TBers who are in this issue.
I have not read all of it - looked through it over tea, read a few items and it will be on its way tomorrow to someone else. No need to clutter up my home with it. Anyway, I want that woman gone. She's scaring me.
PS: still can't see the point of two magazines in one. Make them one magazine and done with it. Otherwise it is bitty and rather silly, yes?
Perhaps that's the idea and the 2 in 1 is the start of it.
CONGRATULATIONS Montholon and Rosalie.
I DO have to agree with people about the cover. It is hardly a flattering pic of the lady, but if that is what she supplied then obviously she thinks it looks great!
Congratulations Montholon and Rosalie.
changed to titfer over time!
Would you have been any less critical if we'd used a promo pic from twenty years ago, or touched it up?
What I said was ... what possessed you to use such a terrible photo of her? and then Dora pointed out that having WRITING stamped on your forehead didn't help - and the comment was made, there have been worse covers ... hard to believe!
Now, if you interpret that as an attack on a mature woman, you are definitely misreading the threads! I was attacking the photo! and its choice as your cover. It is NOT a good photo.
I'm 67 and don't photograph that well, but the studio portrait I had done is at least half flattering. I do not look as if I am about to eat whoever looks at it. Is all.
Sara, if you read this, forgive me, but you need a better photographer! I can recommend mine, she is a wonder.
[quote=dorothyd] she looks like a ghoul of some kind, about to consume whoever comes near her![/quote]
Perhaps you would have laid out the cover differently that's a matter of taste but I am very happy with the work of our designers, and thought it made a strong cover.
I do think that sometimes magazine covers try to squeeze in too much text- like the February issue did.
Last month Andrew Motion had Writing Magazine covering his head and text from his shirt collar down, not good. (Sorry Webbo)
Obviously we're looking at it in a different way to editors and cover design artists...
Sometimes, less is more.
In my opinion, the photo is squashed in, and maybe the lighting isn't right, or something. I'm sure I've seeen WF's mag, with a bright yellow background, even white.
Sorry to be negative.
Here are a few things every cover should have:
a nice bright background (but nothing too fussy)
an attractive subject
eye contact and a smile
space for all the cover lines
a variety of messages: encouraging, authoritative, factual, etc
space
In practice, we nearly always end up compromising on at least one of those features!
(Our next cover is very bright background, nearly all white... wish you could see that now!)
Think I may have just learned something today to, that is, it seems the author's genre is brought out into the photo too. Only one or two I looked and thought,"Ooer", but then read what type of writing they produced and the photo seemed to fit. For example August 2010 "King of Crime" he may have a grey face but it's obviously done that way on purpose.
There are also others with dark backgrounds, but one guy has a blue shirt which brings colour into it.
I think if you're going to put so much writing on the cover,might be sensible to make the person/subject smaller/further away.
That's me done on this now.
Thank you and goodnight.
[quote=dora]Think I may have just learned something today to, that is, it seems the author's genre is brought out into the photo too. Only one or two I looked and thought,"Ooer", but then read what type of writing they produced and the photo seemed to fit. For example August 2010 "King of Crime" he may have a grey face but it's obviously done that way on purpose.[/quote]
Quite right Dora. Sometimes we aim for that sort of thing, sometimes they do! Elmore Leonard (the King of crime one), and most other crimewriters, tend to aim for a moody atmosphere. And romance authors are nearly always smiling, in a garden!
Thanks for your insight too Viv. I'd be very interested to see everybody's ideas of other mags' really strong or really weak covers, but that's for another thread. (and apologies for derailing this one already, where's a moderator when you need one! ;) )
I thought the mag was good this month - as usual I skim read it and will be going back over it in more depth. I liked the more unusual articles like the one about writers' residences and also the Wordpress one was really useful - I know understand how you can use categories and posts but create a website appearance. A lightbulb moment!
Thanks for the Wordpress feedback - that's exactly what the article aimed to do, so it's good to know it wasn't too advanced or too basic!
Im not over-keen on having the two magazines stapled together, especially when the Writers News contents page comes after page 36 of Writing Magazine (and Members' News pages 1-4 come after WN page 18). It doesnt help, either, when the wrong page is quoted (the Editorial calendar is on page 22, not page 23; and the solutions to Red Editing Pen are on page 31, not page 45).
Red Editing Pen sentence 2 omits the final full stop.
Your writing critiqued: I wonder why people get palate/palette/pallet muddled up. There were a lot of look words. to dispose bodies sounds odd. Do they call it health & safety in America?