Monday, January 19, 2009

better late than never

At long last the new issue of the FVQ has finally arrived. We think it's great and will hopefully be worth the wait. We're once again back at work for the upcoming spring issue and, amazingly, already have more submissions than we can keep up with.
Thank you all for your interest & patience.
If you're a contributor and are expecting a copy in the mail, it should arrive soon. You'll also probably receive a free copy of the last issue as our way of saying we're sorry for being so behind schedule.

And one last thing about this issue. There's a small something in one of the stories that was once just part of the editing process, which then became what some would call a typographical error, and is now - we along with the author have decided - an additional part of the text. Yes, we made a mistake; No, we're not just too lazy to fix it. There's something interesting about seeing editorial notes on a piece of published writing. You're welcome to disagree, but we like what it does to the work as a whole - or maybe just how it keeps it from ever seeming whole? Either way, it's something different.

Here's this too. Just because we like it: