I’m doing magazine work today on my kitchen counter where I can keep an eye on and play with the kids. Today while I was building ads for the upcoming magazine, the Jan/Feb 2008 issue, I noticed a typographical error in the table of contents of The Best of the First Two Years, BHM’s first anthology. I checked with Lisa, and after 25,000 copies (and quite a few reprintings later) the typo is still there. Whoops.

Before I finish the ads I need to get page counts to Lisa, who coordinates all of the article purchases and contracts, and does so many other jobs around the office that she’s pretty much the backbone of the editorial side of putting out the magazine. Page counts are just an estimate of how many pages each article will take up in the magazine. They take into account photographs and any fancy typography we put on the article, and determine how much we’ll pay the writer.

In the back of my mind is another project I’m working on, a new Backwoods Home Magazine series of small info-packed books on various important homesteading topics. The first book published will be about chickens, but we’re expecting to have quite an expansive series out soon.