The Arts Paper -
[Cached Version]
Published on: 12/9/1999
Last Visited: 1/4/2003
For a time, I had help only from Jessica Schilling, a wonderful young budding musician and arts journalist (who went on to become a features editor at a newspaper in Georgia).She designed and laid out the paper and helped in myriad small ways.Where a paper the size of TAP has at least three people for editing, copy editing, proofreading, I did it all with Jessica's occasional excellent advice, and when he had a moment in his busy schedule, from my husband, Jack Collom and from my daughter Sarah Bell, who pitched in to proofread and did errands for me when I was overwhelmed.
We had a general distribution of about 8,000 in racks round about, but in addition, I hand-distributed hundreds of copies to arts venues and bookstores.It was fun, but it was also stressful, time-consuming and exhausting and entailed a massive amount of work - unpaid, and a good deal even paid out of my family's pocket, as paper prices and other costs have risen.One cannot expect those who have no experience in publishing to understand the extent to which it is complicated.