Deborah Robson's Editorial Summary, Magazines

Deborah Robson
Editorial summary, magazines

My experience includes literary magazines as well as full-color quarterlies with combined newsstand and subscription readerships. I enjoy maximizing the impact of black-and-white design, and specialize in the judicious use of four-color and spot-color images.

	Spin-Off: The Magazine for Handspinners. Editor. Published by Interweave Press, Loveland, Colorado.


	Forty-nine issues, quarterly, Spring 1988 through Spring 2000.
	A full-color web-printed publication.
	The magazine is distributed by subscription and on newsstands in North America, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe.
	I filled all editorial functions, except one pass of proofreading, including: acquisitions, development, substantive and line editing, copyediting, technical review, project coordination, supervision of illustrations and photostyling, design, and layout.
	I coordinated closely with the advertising, marketing, and final production departments.
	When I assumed responsibility, issues averaged 72 pages (saddlestitched); 6,700 subscribers; print runs of 10,000; and 30 percent ads.
	When I handed over responsibility to my assistant and became editor emeritus, issues averaged 132 to 140 pages (perfectbound); 13,000 subscribers; print runs of 27,000; newsstand distribution of 13,000; and 43 to 45 percent ads.


	Shuttle Spindle & Dyepot (SS&D). Editor. Published by the Handweavers Guild of America, West Hartford, Connecticut.*


	Four issues, quarterly, Winter 1985 through Fall 1986.
	A full-color web-printed publication.
	The magazine is distributed primarily through subscription (membership in nonprofit organization). I provided all editorial functions and supervised the design, typesetting, and production staff.

* Editorial styling notes: The magazine’s title does not contain a comma and the organization’s name has no apostrophe.


	Literary magazines I have edited and designed, in full or in part, have included Swift River (two-color production, sheetfed, fine-print quality, two issues), The Port Townsend Journal (hand silkscreen and mimeograph production, three issues), and Assay (University of Washington graduate school publication, sheetfed, one issue).



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