So, it takes about an…

So, it takes about an hour to put together an art gallery for SH, start to finish. That includes contacting the artist, reading his response, editing the files, and putting them up. I admit, it's a bit tedious -- a lot of editing little files and filenames. But it's only an hour, once a month -- you wouldn't think we'd have such a hard time finding an art editor willing to do it, would you?

That said, I didn't really mind doing it this month, and I'm going to set a few more up (once my fingers are rested), so that when we *do* find someone, they'll be working three months in advance, rather than at the last minute. I'd like to get the whole magazine to that standard, at some point; it gives us much greater flexibility in case of emergency (or other). Some departments are there already -- heck, I think poetry may be five or six months in advance. But others aren't, and as I have time, I'm going to be trying to get them there. If people are going to call us a prozine, we ought to act like a prozine, dangit, even backstage where you can't see us running around like crazy, hollering for a flashlight, stumbling over props, while a gloomy voice announces that the curtain will go up in three, two, one...

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