Lucy in November

Posted by Kate A. in Editors.

It seems like ages since our last issue, but maybe that’s because I’ve been away for ages.

For the past month, I’ve been galavanting around Australia and New Zealand (more on that in the next issue’s leisure section) having a grand old time filled with kangaroos, sheep, wine, beer, beaches and mountains. Meanwhile, Sara and Lindsay were working their asses off recruiting new writers, getting the blogs going, and getting this absolutely awesome issue together. They really held it down with very little help from me and if I had the money, I’d send them off to Oz for a well deserved break. I just hope I can make up for all the abandonment.

As you can see, things look a little different around here. We’re working on making the site look better bit by bit. We’re also working on beefing up the content, getting relevant ads, and pretty much every possible thing we could think to be working on. The magazine is growing, sometimes faster than we imagined, and I’ve come back from my holiday full of energy for Lucy thanks to all the amazing stuff Sara and Lindsay did while I was away (and hopefully they’ve got some energy left after all that hard work).

On the long flight back from New Zealand, someone had left a copy of Cosmopolitan in my seatback pocket. I pulled it out and said to Scott, ‘Hey, let’s mock the enemy!’ We flipped through articles like ‘44 Things You Didn’t Know About Guys’, ‘53 Of Your Sex Questions Answered In 25 Words Or Less’, and ‘Is Your Friend Having More Sex Than You?’ And we got bored. It wasn’t even good enough to mock anymore. That combined with some of the Lucy reader responses we’ve seen over the past few weeks really reiterated to me that the world needs more Lucys and less Cosmos. Getting something like this magazine together can be a real challenge, but it’s the feedback we hear and the continuing awful quality of mainstream women’s mags we see that keeps us going.

Please keep the comments and suggestions coming. And if you like what you see, spread the love!

Thanks for reading,

Kate

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