Getting Up To Date On A Couple Of Things

[poliphilo]

We'd been wondering what was going on next door- where building work seems to have been abandoned- so we were glad to catch Shiraz on a flying visit to his half-completed home. He gave us a tour of the site- nice new windows, chimney breast gone, the upstairs ceilings ripped out- while fulminating about how he's going to "fucking kill" his builder- who seems to have taken the money, done half the work, then downed tools and asked for more.

I got an email yesterday from K.A. Hunter- with whom, at the beginning of the last decade, I edited a short-lived magazine called the Carriage House Review (she was the gaffer; I was the assistant editor and got to winnow vast quantities of short fiction).  It was a transatlantic relationship- conducted entirely by post and email- and when the magazine folded- as it did after three issues- correspondence lapsed and I never learned what exactly had gone wrong. It was a good little magazine while it lasted and I was proud of it.  Maybe now I'll get the full story. 

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[sovay]

K.A. Hunter- with whom, at the beginning of the last decade, I edited a short-lived magazine called the Carriage House Review (she was the gaffer; I was the assistant editor and got to winnow vast quantities of short fiction).

Stop doing this to my brain! You rejected a story of mine in 2002! It's a small, small @%#&^*% . . .

[brttvns.livejournal.com]

Interesting that you were assistant editor - interesting to me at least. A friend and I established a poetry and prose mag at the start of the year and have almost finishedcompiling the first issue. I'd appreciate any advice you felt would help.
As an editor were you always sure of your judgement?

Cheers