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 Final
Issue of the Original Run
It is with real sadness that I confirm this to be the last
issue for now of November Spawned.
The main problem was that it proved too awkward to solicit
submissions from other NaNoWriMo participants, without looking like we were
trying to take advantage of them, or falling prey to the rules on
self-promotion. Another nail in the coffin came from reading in an interview
that Chris Baty, founder of National Novel Writing Month, had himself long ago
rejected the idea of publishing a magazine based on participants’ work, not
wishing to commercialise the site. (For the same reason
www.nanowrimo.org is advertising free.)
November Spawned can never be accused of having been commercial, but
still, all of that was enough to make me a bit uncomfortable with the whole
enterprise.
More than enough material is in hand to fill another year’s
issues, if it was thought worthwhile to keep it going, but all in all, if we
cannot achieve what we aiming for – a wide variety of extracts in each issue – I
might as well put it all in
Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction, which is better suited to presenting novels in
their entirety. There will now be two extra issues of that publication a year.
I am especially sorry to John Greenwood, who has not had a
chance to make his mark as editor, but I trust that he will shine in his new
role as co-editor of the TQF.
This final issue completes the publication of Being an
Alien and The Foundling, while also presenting the last written
portion of The Ephemeral Homunculus. The magazine may have come to an
end, but these stories will live on! – Stephen William Theaker,
Publisher
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