Well, I’ve been a busy, busy beaver.
The important news is that I have preview copies of the Unique Traveller premier issue and it looks fantastic. The art director is a genius. The die-cut cover works exactly how I wanted it to. The only embarrassment is that despite promising me otherwise, it looks like contributor payments have been held back until publication after all (remember the delay? We were supposed to pay early to avoid writers waiting for months after completing work… A thousand apologies for that.)
It’ll be on sale in newsagents Monday morning, stuck to the back of Melbourne magazine, then in a month it’ll be on sale in its own right.
There’s been flurries of craziness surrounding the company: at the same drinks we celebrated having early copies of the mag, the boss announced Melbourne mag’s designer has taken a job in Sydney at Pole, my designer is taking a full-time position in his stead and two of the staff, including the Melbourne mag editor, are pregnant. Lots of changes.
I also remembered to investigate the human right’s degree I was talking about a while ago: The European Masters’ Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation – not sure about that last bit, but still. Looks interesting – I love the idea that the first bit of it is at the University of Venice and then the second half is at any of 27 participating European universities. However, applications for this year’s cohort have closed… maybe next year?