Jane Milliman
For a magazine publisher, there aren’t many things more thrilling than sending files off to the printer—except possibly when we get the final product in hand! So I was very happy to read in this issue about Mary Kokinda’s fifth-grade students and their annual magazine, Jefferson Road (page 14).
Like many in my profession, when I was a kid I made my own magazines, wrote my own [short] novels—sometimes with a collaborator. (My friend Kate Sykes and I penned the thriller And His Name was Paul . . . in grade school, and before that I had put out a newspaper I think was titled Maple Ridge News, for the road we lived on.) But these were one-offs, single copies read by a small handful of people only, namely my parents. The idea of printing multiple copies and distributing them throughout the school? That I could only dream of. (Back then it would have been on a mimeograph, something I doubt many fifth graders today could pick out of a lineup of obsolete machines.)
So my adult self gets it, “feeling it in your hands,” and “the good smell.” And as I get ready to send these files off to the printer, I’m full of hope for the publishers of the future—and full of gratitude for Ms. Kokinda, leading the way. —Jane Milliman, Publisher
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