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Dear Editor, It figures...just when I discover your terrific site you say you’re “going out of business.” Please tell me you will at least continue the magazine bi-monthly or quarterly. I just don’t know what I will do should my need for historical fiction not be satiated. Jane
Hello, I must say how disappointed I am to learn that Of Ages Past will be a monthly issue no longer. Since it’s the only magazine for this genre (or the only one I know about, anyway) your decision is quite disheartening. Please reconsider! Brian Drake
Dear Editor, Bi-monthly? Quarterly? I suppose I can live with that, but please don’t throw in the towel entirely. You’ve done such a splendid job for writers of the genre, giving them a place to showcase their work, and it would be a shame to have the site disappear off the net. Although I still haven’t gotten up the nerve to submit my feeble attempts at writing, I thoroughly enjoy reading the wonderful pieces you feature here. Such inspiration will be missed. Maybe someday my work, in my eyes anyway, will be up to snuff with the work you’ve already published and I hope the magazine will still be around for me to submit. Yes, yes, I’m being selfish here, but come on... Sally |
 lectronic Prejudice
Dear Editor, Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t believe there is such a prejudice against Electronic Publishing as you claim. Why would a professional organization like the RWA turn their noses up at e-authors? It truly makes no sense, especially since Romance, whether it be historical or otherwise, is such a booming industry. Perhaps you were reading too much into what happened at that convention? Or perhaps you might not have all the facts? Unsigned
Right on! regarding your editorial. I can’t begin to tell you how much I agree that the snootiness regarding e-publishing is getting way out of hand. Especially now that the e-publishing industry is gaining momentum. I would have thought industry people would welcome this new medium, but instead I see them campaigning to make it more difficult for the e-published people at conventions and so forth. When money is the issue, however, I suppose I shouldn’t be too surprised. When the big conglomerates who are churning out the same old trash year after year--and getting away with it, mind you--suddenly start losing some of their capital to the electronic publishing folks it stands to reason they are fearing for their own livelihood. And they should! E-publshing, in my opinion, is the wave of the future. And now with palm readers and heaven-only-knows-what-other-inventions are just around the corner, the print people are beginning to quake. Perhaps, in the long run, this will shake up the industry for the better, but for the short run the e-published authors have to deal with all the nonsense from so-called professional organizations like the RWA that should know better. Stephanie
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