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Re: Yayyy successful book launch

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From: b
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 22:37
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On Sep 30, 5:53 pm, Daniel MacKay <dan...@bonmot.ca> wrote:
> Howdy!
>
> The Atlantic Canada LGBT magazine, Wayves, that I've been involved with
> for the last quarter century (I'm nominally the "publisher") just
> printed a slim volume of LGBT poetry and prose, the 5th since 1993,
> called "punoqun."
>
> I didn't write any of the pieces in this book -- that's not my talent --
> but I ran the show from call for submissions to herding the judges, to
> graphic design and layout (and I took the pics that were used for
> graphics.)  We printed one for every copy of the magazine, 4800, plus an
> extra 500 to give away or sell.
>
> A good friend produced the book launch on Friday (because he's better at
> it, and because it had to be done simultaneously with finishing the
> book.) It half of page 35 of today's Daily News:
>
>    http://www.hfxnews.ca/index.cfm?sid=66577&sc=258
>
> (In the picture, Hugo is doing an animated reading of the fairly racy
> poem on page 4.)
>
> I got quoted a couple times, and didn't say anything particularly stupid
> or insult anyone, so it was a good interview.
>
> The book -- 20 pages of poetry and prose -- is free to download here:
>
>    http://wayves.ca/punoqun_2007.pdf
>
> --
> Daniel MacKay
> Publisher, Wayves Magazine

Congratulations Dan - sounds like it was a huge success. Well done!
Cheers,
John
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