Yayyy successful book launch

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#1478

Author: Daniel MacKay
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 20:53

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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

Re: Yayyy successful book launch

#1479

Author: 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

Re: Yayyy successful book launch

#1480

Author: b
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 22:42

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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

I just read a couple of entries. It's a like a gay Penthouse Forum.
Sure to offend some people. lol

Cheers,
John

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