ABCtales Magazine Issue # 21
Tue, 2010-08-17 18:37
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ABCtales Magazine Issue # 21
The August issue of ABCtales Magazine is now available as a free download:
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/abctales-magazine/files
[File name ABC21.pdf]
36 pages of peerless prose and poetry from: Christine Clatworthy, David Elsensohn, Rebecca Hainsworth, Alex Tomlin, Lesley Warren, Anna Marie, Tom Gunn, Maggy Veneijk, Jose Hernandez Diaz, Insertponceyfrenchnamehere, Richard Penny, Chris Birrane, Sharon Smith and Buddah Moskowitz.
Please direct all your praise to this month's guest editor: Mark (Dynamaso) Mason.
[Astute observers may be wondering what happened to Issues 19 and 20. Well, there have been some production problems and they are still in editorial heaven. But we hope to make them incarnate soon.)
luigi_pagano
Whilst directing praise to Dynamaso for issue 21, the contributors who were selected for issues 20 and 21 cannot avoid feeling cheesed off for not being offered an explanation as to why those two particular editions have been held back.
luigi_pagano
An explanation as to why this situation had occurred would have sufficed. It's just a matter of courtesy, in my humble opinion. As to whether you want to use my work I couldn't care less.
shoe
I for one appreciate the work the editors do to produce the mag, whether I'm in it or not. I'm also more than happy to have one piece of work chosen rather than the several previously selected, and anyway I love cheese!:D
luigi_pagano
Don't misunderstand me, Shirley. I too appreciate the work that editors put in producing the mag, whether I am in it or not. I also admire its high quality and I find it a pleasure to read it.
What I was referring to was the fact that having been asked if I would allow some of my poems to be used, I never heard a dicky bird about it and only found out now that there had been technical problems about issue 19 which halted its production.
I, being a grumpy old man, was put out by the fact that nobody saw fit to tell us the reason before.
I am also a cheese lover, but not when it's off.:D
chooselife
Wensleydale all round !
luigi_pagano
I agree wholeheartedly,Kid. Praise where praise is due.
Best, Luigi.
shoe
Well put Luigi, Beautiful artwork and well chosen pieces, a "cracker":D