Home   Museum  •  Joel Chandler Harris  •  Stories  

Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Wren’s Nest Publishing Company Adventures

Posted by: lain // Category: Shameless Promotion, High School Hijinx, Celebrity Requests, Decatur Book Festival, Ridiculous Demands // 2:26 pm

Amelia mentioned our Wren’s Nest Publishing Co. venture in this very blog not too long ago.

That’s all fine and good, but I think it’s worth stressing just how neat this program is.

It’s neat mostly because we get to think of cool things and then do them, like hang out with Hollis Gillespie.

Hollis Gillespie

(This picture, submitted by the author herself, is admittedly a little fuzzy …you know, like the morals of the Wren’s Nest Staff)

For those of you who don’t read Creative Loafing or Paste Magazine or listen to NPR from time to time, Hollis is a foul-mouthed humorist who’s seen some real, live success lately.

We thought it’d be cool to hang out with her, so we said, “Hollis, wanna hang out?” And she was all like, “Uh, yeah sure.”

Easy. Real easy!

Amelia already mentioned that we took a field trip of Paste Magazine, who taught us a little something about design.

Paste Magazine Logo

For you old folks, Paste Magazine is like Rolling Stone, except it’s about music.

Then tomorrow we get to go to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution to take a tour of the place.

The Atlanta Constitution Building

(Not this one, where Joel Chandler Harris worked, but the newer one, which is less awesome.)

They’re going to teach us how to layout our magazine. And they’re going to print our magazine for free.

Then maybe, just maybe, we’ll be like, “Hey Pulitzer Prize winners, can we interview you for our literary journal?” And then all the Pulitzer Prize winners in the building will stand up and be like, “Uh, yeah sure.”

It’s that easy!

License

This work is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License.

 

5 Comments


  1. Gabe
    Comment // August 1st, 2007 // 12:33 pm

    just coming to say hi. haven’t been working this week so it’s hard to check it out every 5 minutes, but I keep trying my best.


  2. Robyn Tibbetts
    Comment // August 2nd, 2007 // 8:10 am

    Love the new publishing group- can’t wait to read their work at the book festival.


  3. lain
    Comment // August 2nd, 2007 // 11:56 am

    Oh hi, Gabe.

    Let’s hope your job starts soon. Also, have you considered a feedreader? It’s basically email for the blogs that you check. I use Bloglines, but there are tons of varieties out there. If you use Firefox, I believe there’s already one in your browser.

    Feedreaders make reading blogs more efficient, but if you’re reading at work I understand you may want to waste as much time as possible.

    And thanks Robyn, I’m excited too!


  4. DJ Cayenne
    Comment // August 2nd, 2007 // 1:13 pm

    You guys are making it sound easy. Can’t wait to check it out.


  5. Gabe
    Comment // August 2nd, 2007 // 2:26 pm

    feedreaders? awesome…..

Leave a Reply

 
 
1050 Ralph David Abernathy Blvd. SW, Atlanta, GA 30310 | 404-753-7735 | 404-753-8535 (f) | info@wrensnestonline.com