LITTLE KINDNESSES MAKE MY DAY, and I had a chance to witness quite
a few of them this month. In our July/Aug 2007 issue, we published a
letter from Arlene Coleman, who was dismayed to have missed a sold-out
issue featuring a cover story on historical fiction.
We received a dozen e-mails from Bookmarks readers who offered to
send that issue to Arlene. Most of the generous bibliophiles who wrote
us echoed Sandy O'Key's sentiments: "There are some
magazines that I can't bear to get rid of, so I just hang on to
them. Bookmarks is one of those. When I read Arlene's letter, I
pulled out my old copies and sure enough, there it was. I'm always
happy to share them; I just can't throw them away!"
Reading is often a solitary pursuit, and there aren't many
opportunities for readers to feel a sense of community. That search for
fellow readers is one of the reasons we join book groups or volunteer at
the local library. It was personally gratifying to see a little ad hoc
community of Bookmarks readers offering to do a fellow reader a favor.
I know that many of you also meet and interact with other
literary-minded people through the Internet, so I wanted to let you know
that this summer we've been working on upgrading our Web site. To
date, bookmarksmagazine.com has just been a source of information about
the paper magazine. Starting in September, we'll have an entirely
new Web platform that will feature our articles and reviews online. More
important, it will also allow our readers to comment on those reviews
and carry on conversations with each other. We'll make sure that
the article on historical fiction from that sold-out issue is one of the
first up there!
Once we're up and running, we'll be eager for any
feedback you might have for us. The magazine remains the cornerstone of
what we do, of course, and we hope that the Web site will serve as a
compelling complement to that.
Let us know what you think!
Best,
Jon
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