He really wanted to get the word out about it. He could have given it to a publication like the New Yorker . Or he could have sold it. But he gave it to me. It took a lot of calls, a lot of faxing, a lot of mailing to pull it all off, though.
People seem to like the story and the magazine overall.
And the owner was pleased with the way we laid the story out and featured it in the magazine. You'd been in newspaper publishing, but didn't have experience as a magazine publisher. Trial and error. Because I'd been writing, I knew a lot of writers. We also put out an ad and we got an overwhelming response, particularly to the request for poetry.