Editor’s Notes for October 2000
It’s our fifth anniversary issue! Check out Pif’s history!
Aside from our birthday, we’re excited to bring readers the Out of Print Books
Issue. Many important books, stories, poems, and essays have gone out of print,
and we hope this issue will shed some light on the problem. A problem we believe
could be permanently alleviated if Print on Demand was universally embraced.
Until that happens, though, we hope this issue will serve as a loud Call Back
to publishers concerning the books and authors mentioned throughout our Poetry,
Fiction, and Commentary sections.
Looking forward, Pif Magazine will
be publishing several good issues this winter. Correspondingly, we need submissions
to round out them out. In particular, we need:
- Unusual cyber art, particularly digital photography and hypertext
- Interviews
* We’re always looking for interviews with authors like John Updike (Licks
of Love : Short Stories and a Sequel, Rabbit Remembered comes out
in 11/00) and Joy Williams (The Quick and the Dead comes out in
10/00).
* Also, we’re dying for interviews with folks in the music and film
industry, too – like the singer Aimee Mann, the band Pink Martini,
the director Mike Leigh, or the actor Hope Davis
- Memoirs
- Commentary that uses hyperlinks, audio (DAT recordings), or video
For details on how to submit, see our Submissions
Page.
Pilot-Search is
accepting applications for Navigators in the following categories: (click a category to learn more)
These Navigators will be the "specialists" for their area on Pilot-Search. The
responsibilities are simple:
- Maintain and add links to your category. For instance, the Interviews Navigator
will need to find new interviews (at sites like The New York Times, GeorgeJr.com,
Salon.com, BlueMoonReview.com, and others) and add the interviews’ links
to the category, "Interviews."
- Write articles or other postings for PifMagazine.com on a pre-arranged
basis. (These articles will be paid for by the magazine.)
Benefits will include:
- Being a Navigator gives you the opportunity to become an online leader of people who share your interests. Articles and other postings give you a vehicle for your ideas and let you exchange information with your users.
- We manage the back end. You won’t have to worry about server space or any of the hassles of managing a site of links.
- Being a Navigator gives you the opportunity to become part of a tightly knit community. The Pif and Pilot-Search community exists online in the form of chats, bulletin boards, email, newsletters, and the sites themselves, and offline with regional events where Navigators, staff, and readers can meet and get to know one another. The members of this community are authors, poets, publishers, editors, agents, critics, and other sources of help within the writing world.
- Every Navigator has editorial and peer Mentors – people who can offer
guidance and support, answer your questions, and hook you up with other experts
in your field.
To find out more, contact Richard Luck at webmaster@pilot-search.com.
Now, grab a cup of your favorite blend, and enjoy this issue of Pif.
Camille Renshaw
Editor-in-Chief
1-October-2000
Lacey, WA
Tell us what you think. Email talkback@pifmagazine.com
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