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[acangie]

What?! I know I'm a little late here, but I just found out that Radar Magazine has been killed. After three issues. I'm really sad! Radar had been getting better with each successive issue, and I was starting to get used to having it around, and now... no more.

What will replace the Radar-shaped hole in my heart?

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[cashbox]

damn, i was just starting to wonder where my next issue was. Maer Roshan better effing well refund my five bucks.

(i guess i'm not surprised to see it go, but that is a drag nonetheless -- when my old mag shut down, i refused to believe there was no place for a smart, quality general-culture mag. apparently, maybe, there isn't.)

[acangie]

Your icon is no longer seasonally appropriate. BOOO.

I thought Radar was doing well, but I guess I was wrong... they ran into some trouble with investors or some such, I don't really know. You know what sucks? The fourth issue's actually finished already-- they're just not printing it!

[cashbox]

fine, i'll just use the dirty one. :P

i followed their launch pretty closely -- they had like two major, major investors (at the time, i was deeply jealous), so if one or the other or both decided they were done with the thing, there's not much they can do. that is highly lame that they won't even pay the printing costs for #4, though. jerks.

[acangie]

I think it was the one named Zuckerman. I don't remember the details though.

and YAY for dirty icons. Much better than Santa icons.

[cashbox]

heee. glad you like. (i'd make this one the default, but there is a decent percentage of my friendslist that probably doesn't want to see me almost-pantsless.)

stupid Zuckerman.

[acangie]

Actually, "I don't remember the details" implies that I used to know the details but I forgot. In fact, I never knew the details.

Must've been too distracted by your DIRTY icon to talk straight. :)

[cashbox]

that's fair. i am distractingly sexy. (;P) and journalism lesson #1: "I don't recall" always works. unless you're reagan.

[acangie]

Nice tip. But 10 days ago I decided I want to go into publishing! (Not that I've made any actual moves in that direction yet...)

[cashbox]

sweet! i wanna get back into publishing someday too. you'd be a fine connection to have, in numerous ways.

(by the way, if you want advice and such from people in the business, i know ... a lot of them. and, y'know, was one. email anytime ...)

[acangie]

really? neat, thanks! and what can you tell me about publishing so far?

and ooh, another icon.

[cashbox]

sadly, these be all i have. since i don't wanna get too wangtastic in icons. ;)

three things you should know about the publishing world:
* jobs are easy enough to find, especially in marketing. this, largely, is because publisher marketing (especially at the large houses) is fanatically long-houred and eccentric-dealing-with work.
* medium-sized houses are the place to be -- check out Perseus Book Group, Houghton Mifflin, Harcourt on the east coast, and the American Association of University Presses. (U.Cal has a really, really good press staffed with nice people.) the key is finding stability, but not at a HarperCollins or Time Warner if you can help it, 'cause they, from all accounts, run people *ragged.*
* art-book publishing people are *jerks.*

you lookin' at marketing? editorial? design? sales?

[acangie]

No, no! Go for wangtastic. :D

Thanks, you give good advice. (At least I think it's good advice. I wouldn't really know yet, would I?) Don't know what I'm looking for. The decision was too recent for me to have any idea what I'm doing just yet... but I think editorial. You?

[cashbox]

your opinion on the matter has been noted. ;P

and i try to give decent advice. when i worked in book publishing, i was at a really, really tiny press; my speciality was production, but i did some editorial and marketing work as well. i'd say your best way in is to apply for an assload of internships (and learn smart things to say about badly-written manuscript submissions, since that'll be a big part of any editorial 'ship.)