The Vanishing Tide

[HenryC]

My new article for Florida Wildlife Magazine,(Mar-Apr issue), "The Vanishing Tide",  is now online. Please scroll to page 28

http://floridawildlifemagazine.com/flipmags/march11/

As I reported in an earlier post, FWM will cease publication with the  May/Jun issue.  It will have one of my stories in it,  "Trailer Sailing".  It will probably be my last for that publication. I will post the link to it as soon as it is available, if it is indeed available.  The State of Florida has cut the budget for the magazine, so it is not clear what will survive..

According to the FWM website,

https://www.floridawildlifemagazine.com/index.cfm

the magazine will continue as a free online publication, although it is not clear what their publishing format will be like.

For those of you interested in reading more of my work online, please check my web page

http://www.sandyjdesigns.com/page19.html

for the links.  The FWM stories of mine that are currently on line may be pulled off the internet as the magazine changes form.  If that's the case, they will be lost forever, because public libraries in this state no longer carry FWM.  At the present time I have several other stories delivered to FWM that will probably not be published, and one in the pipeline for Good Old Boat magazine that will hit the newsstands in 2012.

Much of my success as a writer has been due to my illustrator, Mr Fritz Seegers.  He sails a 27 foot wooden cutter he built himself in the Great Lakes.  He will remain active in publishing,  and I will continue collaborating with him on other projects in the future. I highly recommend you check out his website at

http://www.fritzseegers.com/

With the difficulty of getting anything published in this economy (yes, it affects us scribblers, too) this may very well be the end of my writing career. 40 articles in 17 years;  not a bad run,  but  I guess I'd better get started on that novel.

[RCAN]

Henry, it is sad to hear that the Florida Wildlife Magazine will be another casualty of this economy. I have enjoyed and learned from all of your articles.

I was so intrigued by your short story on the measuring of the Gulf Stream that I concluded that you need to do more of this writing in the form of a novel. Perhaps this is an idea whose time has come.

As my mother always said, there is nothing bad from which something good can be drawn. The end of this magazine will usher the beginning of a new novelist.

I will be looking forward to your creative work.

Robert

[Shawn]

Henry,

"The FWM stories of mine that are currently on line may be pulled off the internet as the magazine changes form.  If that's the case, they will be lost forever, because public libraries in this state no longer carry FWM. "

Check out archive.org whoes goal is to provide a backup snapshots of the Internet at various points in time.

They will likely have snapshots of your online articles.

Shawn

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I heard on Wisconsin's National Public Radio the other day where the MAJOR news paper and Magazine publisher Gannett Company last year has lost TWO BILLION DOLLARS in lost readership sales. So Gannett laid off 5% of it's staff. They own our local Door County newspaper, Door County Advocate. I predict that our newspaper will soon disappear. The Advocate is printed on Saturday and Wednesday only. It was a 7 day affair and much better a few years ago before Gannett bought the paper.

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