Re-Beginnings
We’ve been working hard behind the scenes at Abandoned Towers, and while it may have looked as though we abandoned you (ha…see what I did there?), rest assured that we haven’t. Here are some of the exciting things that have been happening:
- Relaunch: This will be happening in the next month or so…early to mid January. We’ve been in sort of a “soft launch” time frame where we were accepting submissions in order to build up a buffer so that we would have a steady stream of content. I’m excited to share all of the works I’ve been reading with all of you.
- Print issues: We’ve been working on getting the print issues back in print. Our timeframe is currently quite vague on that one, but it’s still in the works. We’ve also been collecting works for our next print issue, date to be announced.
- Contest: We’ve decided that Abandoned Towers will be running a contest. It will be further announced here, on Twitter and on Facebook. We’re incredibly excited about this and hope you will be too.
- Website: Our talented webmaster has been working overtime to get the site to his exacting standards.
- Reading submissions: I’ve been reading each of the submissions and I’ve caught up to November 18. If you haven’t heard back from me (a real reply, not an automated email) and you submitted before then, please email me atsubs@gmail.com so that I can find it. Sometimes email disappears or I otherwise miss it.
- Other coding stuff: I’m not allowed to talk about this, but it’s going to be pretty amazing.
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NaNoWriMo 2011
You may have done it before, you may have won it before. Are you doing NaNoWriMo this month? For those who are unaware, NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month. The goal? To write a 50,000 word novel in the 30 days of November. I’ve attempted it twice, finishing it in 2004 and stopping on day 6 in 2006. I’m trying it again this year, although not exactly as the rules state. You see, you’re supposed to start a brand new project, but I really want to jump start the novel that I’ve been working on for a while, so I’ll be doing that.
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Introduction: K.E. Abel
Hi everyone,
My name is K.E. Abel and I am the new Managing Editor of Abandoned Towers Magazine. I’m incredibly excited to be here and am thrilled with the high quality submissions which I’ve seen so far. We’ve been working hard to get things moving around here, so please spread the word that we are looking for volunteers to help out.
So, who am I? I grew up in the suburbs of Vancouver, BC, Canada and currently live in the suburbs of Vancouver, but a lot closer to the city. I received my Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Simon Fraser University, and my Bachelor of Education at the University of British Columbia. I have two leopard geckos who sleep until the crickets arrive. I’ve been reading since I was 3 (The Colour Kittens was the first book I read by myself and I still remember how it felt to understand a book by myself while I was lying on my parents’ living room carpet), writing since before I could write (my first book was a bunch of scribbles on my colouring paper, folded up into book form) and now I want to showcase excellent writing by other people.
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Read the History of Abandoned Towers
One of the current projects which we’re undertaking here at Abandoned Towers is consolidation. Specifically at the moment we’re consolidating the original Abandoned Towers blog into the current Abandoned Towers blog. Eventually we’ll consolidate the Abandoned Towers blog into the main Abandoned Towers site.
The posts go back all the way to 2008 and the beginning of Abandoned Towers, so if you’re interested you can read about Abandoned Towers from the beginning. As of this moment the progress on the consolidation is 21/164 posts. Can you say work in progress?
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Changes, they’re a comin’
If you’re visiting Abandoned Towers for the first time this won’t be obvious and perhaps not if you’re a previous visitor. For all intents and purposes Abandoned Towers is now under new management. Personally I represent the technical side of that change.
So what does this really mean, well in the short term, not too much. We are reviewing everything that was previously part of Abandoned Towers and trimming where appropriate. In other places we are relabelling, reorganizing and simplifying. However, we’re doing this while the site is live, and we’re doing it on the live version of the site (not exactly an industry best practice). So you may experience periodic brief outages, or other strange behaviour throughout the site. Just means that we’re working on the site.
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Submissions Open!
Abandoned Towers Magazine is pleased to announce that we are now open again for submissions! We are under new editor-ship with new submission guidelines. Send submissions to atsubs@gmail.com. We look forward to reading your work!
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Poems by Greg Schwartz
Night Surfer
he surfs at night
moonlight glinting off pale skin
he does not fear the dark
or sharks
or anything, for that matter
he rides the waves in peace
in silence and darkness
for hours on end
until hunger forces him back to land
during the day
he sleeps without dreaming
and as far as he knows
he’s the one and only
vampire surfer.
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Road Trip with a Coworker
T-boning
a semi
isn’t such a bad way to go
when the person sitting next to you
would have bored you to death
anyway.
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