The Astronomy staff gets things rolling the morning of October 16, 2009. David J. Eicher photo
Be prepared for plenty of surprises to come in the next few months. Last Friday
Astronomy’s editorial staff joined forces with the art staff and our publisher and went off site, as we do each year, for a daylong discussion. The topics cover the entire spectrum of magazine and web site creation, and the goal is to give you the best possible product we can over the coming year. We spoke about potential stories, special issues, magazine design, covers, outreach activities with astronomy groups, trips and tours, our web site, and a whole load of other stuff.
We convened at 9 a.m. at my house about 10 miles from Kalmbach’s corporate headquarters. The morning began over lots of coffee, orange juice, breakfast goodies. Eventually we had boxed lunches and the chatter rolled into the afternoon. It was a serious analytical discussion and one punctuated by lots of laughs and a bit of silliness, as always.
So stay tuned — much came out of the discussion, and I promise some of things we spoke about will make a nice difference in the pages of your issues of
Astronomy during the coming year.