Archive for "Editorials"
Dargonzine 26-1 Editorial
Over the past few issues, my editorials have been very positive. Between the agency that contacted us, and the release of APE, good things were happening in the world of Dargon and electronic publishing in general. It was a happy time. Since then, some bad news had affected me, personally, as well as the rest of the world. Our economies are struggling, the Sequestration began in the United States, and I was released from my employment due to budget cuts. It's ...
Dargonzine 25-4 Editorial
A funny thing happened to me on the way to the Editorial ... If you read the Editorial last issue, you'd know that the Dargon Project was contacted by the Ethan Ellenberg agency, and that we (or at least, I) were very proud to have been contacted by them. I still am. Now, another interesting thing has happened in the two months since then: a writer named Guy Kawasaki has published a book called APE, and I was one of ...
Dargonzine 25-3 Editorial
Most issues, I have a bit of a struggle trying to figure out what to talk about during the Editorial. I look for a common theme in the stories being presented, or try to tie in a current event that somehow, nebulously is reflected within the current issue. However, this issue provides me with a deluge of information which unfortunately means it will be shorter than I would like it to be, while being a bit bereft of the substance ...
Dargonzine 25-2 Editorial
Welcome back, readers! Issue 25-2 is here, just in time for us to head off to our annual Summit. This year, we're heading to the lovely Marblehead, OH, near the shore of Lake Erie. As tradition holds, we'll be gathering to both work out the administrative issues facing the Project, as well as work on our collaborative writing, developing stories for our annual Summit Challenge (which has become something of a tradition), and generally goofing off and ...
Dargonzine 25-1 Editorial
Over the course of the past six months or so, The Dargon Project has seen a small influx of new authors. This is very exciting for us, as we're always looking for more writers (the philosophy being, the more active writers we have, the more stories will be produced, and the more issues we can send to you, the readers). This also raises a small difficulty for us, however, as we have 25 years of back stories ...
Dargonzine 24-3 Editorial
The end of the year is upon us. It is a time of giving, a time of reflection on the past, and commitments for the future. And in the past two years, DargonZine has progressed wonderfully. This will be our eighth issue published in exactly 2 years, sticking to a quarterly schedule. We have had stories published by our longest-running authors, as well as our newest, up and coming authors. And there has been ...
Dargonzine 24-2 Editorial
The city of Dargon has always been thought of, by the authors, as a somewhat rough region. It's a backwater town located hundreds of leagues (miles) from the capital city of Magnus. As the northernmost point on the continent, and protected by the Darst Range of mountains, it is difficult to access by both sea and land. As such, The Law is a combination of both the King's Rule, and what men make of it. This ...
Dargonzine 24-1 Editorial
Welcome to Dargonzine's new website! As you can see from the "Pardon Our Dust" post to the left it is still very much a work in progress. Or, if you're reading this editorial as part of a full-text email or RSS feed of this issue, you have no idea what I am talking about, and might feel inclined to scroll right past this to get to the great new stories in this issue. If that's the case, I would encourage ...
Dargonzine 23-4 Editorial
Welcome back, readers! It's a new year, 2011. And this year, I want to start by talking about leadership, specifically the leadership of this Project. No, I'm not talking about me. As the Editor, my job is quite simple -- I arbitrate over any issues that arise, and I help determine which stories go in the print queue, although I haven't had to perform the latter task since I took the helm: Liam Donahue is the ...
Dargonzine 23-3 Editorial
Through a bizarre series of connections, I found myself at an interesting wedding last weekend. Very posh, very well-to-do, and very expensive. Among other notable faces in the mid-Atlantic region, I had the pleasure of speaking with the editor of Style magazine for a bit, and we hashed on challenges of the publishing world, though from differing perspectives. The most notable contradictions were based on the difference between a profession and a hobby.