When we relaunched Pulphouse Fiction Magazine thirty issues ago, if we could have seen the bumps and problems that were ahead, I doubt we would have done it.
We started off quarterly and were doing just great right up to the pandemic when we paused publication. Actually we paused a bunch of stuff at WMG Publishing to make sure the company and employees made it through.
When this magazine restarted, we had decided to go to six issues a year instead of four. And that worked great right up to the day in October of 2022 that I woke up blind. So we paused the magazine again, took a hard look at what we wanted to do, and then restarted it as a monthly in the fall of 2023 after I had recovered most of my sight.
We changed format and also purposely made the issues simple in layout to make sure we could get the monthly schedule on track.
We had three issues in the pipeline when I fell running a 5k charity run and smashed my shoulder, ended up in surgery, and could not type for three months. We managed to keep the magazine on schedule during that time and we were coming back when we had a business crisis in WMG Publishing and had to make a lot of changes.
But we are still monthly and on schedule.
And we hope with either issue thirty-one or thirty-two, the look and feel of the magazine will be more fun, as Pulphouse is supposed to be.
As it used to be back with the first issue.
To say it has been a bumpy road to get to this issue is a laughable understatement. But here we are and looking into a bright future.
Thank you all for being a part of this crazy journey so far. I hope you stay with us for whatever comes next.
Dean Wesley Smith
Las Vegas, Nevada