Imagine my chagrin when I turned the EAP sights back on the website, and noticed that while I had thought the new quarterly EAP: The Magazine was going up December 1, it was listed as going up November 1. And here it is November 1. Aha, I said to myself, those little gray cells are leaking out your ears, take a deep breath, have another cup of tea, and put the issue back a month.
So I send apologies to the writers who were waiting for the magazine to go up today. This is what comes of having a harried, though seriously entertained, single person organizing editorial, production, marketing, and beyond. At least, this is what comes of having this single person do it.
That’s a little misleading, since this single person couldn’t run Exterminating Angel Press without a whole passel of dedicated, talented, passionate-about-ideas people, who, come to think of it, it’s my pleasure to call out here. Mike Madrid, popular culture editor, and elegant book designer (as well as illustrator, author, and ideas maven). Molly Mikolowski and Nick Liberty of A Literary Light, providing counseling and support and publicity, even while their own lives have them surfing a tsunami. John Sutherland, whose typesetting abilities and whose calm attention to deadline and detail is such an endless comfort. And everyone, just everyone, at Consortium Book Sales and Distribution, because there is nothing like being a lone publisher with a phalanx of super competent folk who really love books at her back. (And special thanks this week to Jim Nichols, who is not just super competent, but touchingly thoughtful, too.)
Anyway, apologies for the magazine cock up. We’ve had a flood, and I do mean a flood, of contributions for this next issue, and swimming through it has been a delight, but it’s taken some doing, I can tell you. Still we’ve come out of the flood with a treasure or two, but about that, to check out the treasures for yourself, you’ll have to wait till December 1.
