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By Joseph Labie

I thought you would never ask about how this beau- finished articles are sent on to the article’s authors for
tiful magazine is put together. Well — first, there is a their last chance for corrections.

call for articles and a publishing schedule is issued by
After the layout and preliminary edits are done, the
the “Chief.” Publishing starts with an idea about the
entire magazine crew meets in The Secret Place to re-
theme of the magazine should be. For instance, this
th
issue focuses on Friends of Red Rock Canyon’s 30 ally dissect each page to make it perfect for your read-
ing pleasure. The crew comes to the Final Edit with
Anniversary milestone and the importance of volun-
their lists of corrections such as spelling, complete
teers in protecting our public lands. There are usually
sentences, punctuation and even how the article looks.
between eight and ten volunteers that meet in The
Secret Place and who work very hard to make the You would be surprised at all the commas, periods,
colons, semi-colons, questions marks, quotation mark
magazine informative and entertaining.
placement and the other hickies (all those other strange
Writers send their submissions to the Chief and punctuation symbols) that are discussed, moved or re-
Articles Editor for round one of the editing process. moved.
The Editorial Team gets
Off it goes to the
copies of all the articles,
printer when everyone
advertising, calendars
and inserts before meet- is happy with it. In
ing in The Secret Place about a week, the mag-
azine is done and
for the Final Edit. The
picked up by the Chief.
Editorial Team also
determines if the arti- The magazine assembly

cles are appropriate for and mailing crew is on
standby alert, and when
the theme of the issue.
the call is received, we
Once the articles and all go to The Secret
photographs are gath- Place where the address
ered, then the layout labels are attached, the

process begins. This is inserts are inserted and
The joys of the editing process as drawn by Creative Editor Rob Tuvell
done by the Chief and the little sticky circles
the Creative Editor. “Where should this photo go?” are applied as required by the Post Office. The assem-
Or, “On what page should this article be?” When the bly crew works through four or five different mailing
layout is complete, no small task, the almost (Continued on page 16)
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