SOME PERSONAL COMMENTS
This magazine is entirely a personal project of mine, which I began to
wonder casually about a few years ago, until I realised it had become
rather an obsession. The whole lot, including these web pages, is
done in my "spare" time, or when I'm "between jobs" as a freelance
education writer (I am a former secondary English teacher, and all that
this implies, such as being tough on apostrophe's),
or when I take a break from a job because the brain is addled.
It's also not funded, and may only appear as an on-line, downloadable
publication - maybe all of this will change - who knows? It may be
a one-off, it may become a twice or even a thrice-off or... again, who knows?
The aim is to publish short stories written by other people.
Although I am a published writer of a few short fiction stories in
various small Australian magazines, all written some years ago, and an
unpublished writer of many more, so far I have resisted the temptation to
slip a story in under an assumed name. The only likelihood this may
happen is if no one else submits stories I'm looking for - for example,
as said on another of these pages, I have so far not received any pirate
or high seas tales, or certain other genres. I may sit down and
write something awful that will end up in the magazine!
All illustrations are done by others. If I could draw for the mag,
though, I would, because it looks like fun - but I can't, so I won't
(yet).
The general idea comes partly from those illustrated popular fiction
magazines of the late 19th century and into the 20th century, combined
with a touch of the British weekly mags and annual hard-cover books for
kids, such as Knockout and Radio Fun, that I used
to read in country Victoria during the 1950s-1960s. The Eagle
and Girls' Crystal were similar publications. (Yes, maybe
old-fashioned, and very British Empire in outlook, with all the
unconscious negative undertones of class and race superiority that we
see in them today. I am not looking to emulate these unfortunate
characteristics.)(Continued
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Writers and
illustrators invited to enquire!
Email to:
magazine@rmsed.com.au
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To return to main magazine page, CLICK HERE.
For details about the magazine and
types of stories preferred, CLICK HERE.
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For details about submissions of written stories,
illustrations and comic strips,
and current requirements (the page you've just come from,
CLICK HERE.
*** Updated 16 October 2009.
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Those who are interested
might want to find out more about century-old magazines such as The
Strand Magazine (publishers of the Sherlock Holmes stories),
Pearson's Magazine, Cassell's Magazine, The Harmsworth
Magazine, and The Windsor Magazine. All you need to do
is type the titles into a search engine; there's plenty of info on the
net. Stories and illustrations from these magazines have also been
compiled in book form and are available in titles such as Science
Fiction by the Rivals of H.G. Wells, Rivals of Sherlock Holmes,
and others.
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