Changing Times
Well, this is a bit of a pre-announcement, but here we go: Due to the way real life works, we are abandoning - at least for the forseeable future - the “magazine” concept. That is to say, instead of publishing a handful of articles together as one release, we are going to publish individual articles on a “when they’re ready” basis, still under the banner of The Shadowrun Supplemental. We will aim to have very little lag - a day or two at most - between posting the PDF and HTML versions of an article.
This will, hopefully, eliminate many of the bottlenecks that have plagued the magazine for years. Instead of taking 100+ man hours [often spread over several months, in our available time] to put together a 20-30 page magazine, we’ll focus on one article/piece at a time. Some articles will be small - a page or two - while others will run longer. In many ways, this is easier on us - we no longer have to worry about finding enough good articles at one time to compile into the magazine, and we don’t have to worry about an extra-large article overshadowing the rest of the magazine, etc.
We have no set publishing schedule - I’d like to have something new online every other week, but I do not know if that’s currently feasible. However, this will enable us to publish reviews and other such material in a much more timely manner.
We currently do have a backlog of articles, however our Submission Guidelines have been revised to reflect our new publishing plans.
October 20th, 2004 at 23:48
Good luck for the future, and keep up the good work on the new TSS :) .