10-02-2014, 01:53 AM
Hi there Ixnay!
I too am worried about Charles' absence and hope that it is a temporary condition and that all will be well soon.
I would suggest trying to prepare the missing issue yourself, except that you seem to be missing some rather critical pieces. I think I'd give Charles a little more time to recover from whatever his problems are and at least give us some direction. If he could, for instance, send you what he has as far as already-submitted ads, articles, company news, formatting templates (which I may be able to help with one piece of), the cover page (if we can't do a decent rip of it), and anything else he has handy, then we could probably produce an issue without him that's a pretty reasonable facsimile of what he's been doing. Given that we can get that much information (or his return) I'd say to publish issue #10 as August as planned, and then skip September pending his return and restart numbering of issues whenever it can be resumed.
I don't have any available time myself to take on any of his major projects. I'm so behind and overloaded with other duties it's all I can do to submit ads and articles, but I intend to keep doing that as long as there's something I can say and a 'zine to say it in.
But perhaps Charles can reduce some of his own workload in the magazine itself. His assistant editor can perhaps continue to do much of the assembly work and Charles might reduce the number of articles and editorials that he authors himself. Surely such things take a significant amount of time and put him under a lot of stress. We (the PBM community) do seem to be contributing a pretty good volume of content for each issue, so perhaps not as much is needed from him on a regular basis? Maybe reducing some time commitment and stress in one area will help him better deal with any work he still needs to take care of himself.
I think it'd be great if his "loyal followers" could chip in on whatever they can and keep things going in his absence. I'm sure he would approve of any help he can get.
I too am worried about Charles' absence and hope that it is a temporary condition and that all will be well soon.
I would suggest trying to prepare the missing issue yourself, except that you seem to be missing some rather critical pieces. I think I'd give Charles a little more time to recover from whatever his problems are and at least give us some direction. If he could, for instance, send you what he has as far as already-submitted ads, articles, company news, formatting templates (which I may be able to help with one piece of), the cover page (if we can't do a decent rip of it), and anything else he has handy, then we could probably produce an issue without him that's a pretty reasonable facsimile of what he's been doing. Given that we can get that much information (or his return) I'd say to publish issue #10 as August as planned, and then skip September pending his return and restart numbering of issues whenever it can be resumed.
I don't have any available time myself to take on any of his major projects. I'm so behind and overloaded with other duties it's all I can do to submit ads and articles, but I intend to keep doing that as long as there's something I can say and a 'zine to say it in.
But perhaps Charles can reduce some of his own workload in the magazine itself. His assistant editor can perhaps continue to do much of the assembly work and Charles might reduce the number of articles and editorials that he authors himself. Surely such things take a significant amount of time and put him under a lot of stress. We (the PBM community) do seem to be contributing a pretty good volume of content for each issue, so perhaps not as much is needed from him on a regular basis? Maybe reducing some time commitment and stress in one area will help him better deal with any work he still needs to take care of himself.
I think it'd be great if his "loyal followers" could chip in on whatever they can and keep things going in his absence. I'm sure he would approve of any help he can get.