Showing posts with label The Publisher's Life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Publisher's Life. Show all posts

Friday, May 8, 2009

Life of a Publisher

I did not get to post yesterday because I got tired. Yesterday I had a good day. I started with an interview with a ballet dancer. She is starting a dance company as well as a studio. We had a good discussion about how black children in our community are not moving forward in this arena. They get to a certain point and then they stop or have no options to continue. She will provide this continuous road. I had coffee with my marketing assistant and then I headed to my coffee shop office Java. I got some things done, I even attempted to write my articles for the June issue. But I got phone calls and emails done so that was good. 
I am excited about this morning. I have my photo shoot with three fathers for the Father's Day issue. It is the first time, the photo's will be staged. Each month I learn something by observing other magazine's and studying photos, etc. So, I'm going to make my photos look better by using the surroundings in Austin to bring out wonderful covers and inside photos. I'm very excited. I will let you know in the next blog how it goes. Thanks for reading.

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

A Publisher's Life

Wednesday, May 6, 2009
I have been writing a blog/journal on my Ujima Facebook Page and I thought I might start the same type of blog here. 
Today, I had a nice working day. I didn't have any interviews so I went to my coffee shop office Java and tried to get some writing done. However, the Managing Editor and myself ended up working on marketing. We worked on how to make money for the magazine. We have to generate some revenue. So it wasn't a total loss. I have to stop this procrastination I go through. When I know I have a deadline, I wait until the end before I start working. This whole week is called our writing week, but I have yet to finish one article for the for the June issue. But tomorrow's another day. I do have a interview tomorrow but after that I'm heading to my coffee shop office do some writing. See ya tomorrow.