RD Armstrong is editor-in-chief of Lummox Journal, Lummox Press
1. Please describe your website and your duties as editor-in-chief.
As to my duties as "head Lummox"...I pretty much do anything and everything. This is essentially a one man operation. I do have an excellent art director, Chris Yeseta, who does layouts for me (for the books, etc...been with me since 1997!), but I do the rest of it, including helping create the covers for many of the books we have done together over the years.
As Editor-in-chief, it's my job to solicit material for the project (right now I'm working on the second LUMMOX anthology); read submissions; accept what I like and reject what I don't. Next I will be putting the issue in order which entails arranging the poetry, essays, reviews and interviews, along with bios and table of contents...I also have to write a lead essay to introduce the issue and its theme: place. And while I'm doing that, I'm also going to be soliciting ads for the issue with the help of a friend of mine.
I'm also publishing books, which means doing a lot of hand-holding with authors, whilst cajoling the material from them for what I hope will be a successful book. This month I published three books, which is unusual, but I have been out of action and have fallen behind, so had to do 3 books at once. And there are more books in the wings! And there's the website which I am having remodeled. So, all in all, I'm pretty busy...too bad I don't get a salary for doing all this...everything I do is speculative. I will make some money someday, I just don't know when.
1. Please describe your website and your duties as editor-in-chief.
As to my duties as "head Lummox"...I pretty much do anything and everything. This is essentially a one man operation. I do have an excellent art director, Chris Yeseta, who does layouts for me (for the books, etc...been with me since 1997!), but I do the rest of it, including helping create the covers for many of the books we have done together over the years.
As Editor-in-chief, it's my job to solicit material for the project (right now I'm working on the second LUMMOX anthology); read submissions; accept what I like and reject what I don't. Next I will be putting the issue in order which entails arranging the poetry, essays, reviews and interviews, along with bios and table of contents...I also have to write a lead essay to introduce the issue and its theme: place. And while I'm doing that, I'm also going to be soliciting ads for the issue with the help of a friend of mine.
I'm also publishing books, which means doing a lot of hand-holding with authors, whilst cajoling the material from them for what I hope will be a successful book. This month I published three books, which is unusual, but I have been out of action and have fallen behind, so had to do 3 books at once. And there are more books in the wings! And there's the website which I am having remodeled. So, all in all, I'm pretty busy...too bad I don't get a salary for doing all this...everything I do is speculative. I will make some money someday, I just don't know when.
