i gotta say, i’m pretty exhausted. ive spent the last several weeks rushing to get strawberry press magazine put together and ready to go – and now that it’s finished, i’m really drained. ive been writing, reading, working on a play with the blue coyote theater people – and basically just keeping busier than someone so naturally inclined towards laziness like myself likes to do. but new york skipped spring this year, and weve just jumped right into summer – and since the bad weather’s been no temptation, i guess i can’t complain. the first issue of strawberry press magazine is out with the sun, and both of them are hot!

this month’s issue of strawberry press magazine was put together by myself alone. my co-editor is overseas for a couple months and we havent really been able to correspond with each other as much as we should be. consequently i wasnt really able to discuss the direction the magazine should take with him, and i was kind of left with just a deadline and a skeleton of a blueprint. since i didnt really know what type of material i was looking for, it wasnt really fair to ask writers to submit work. basically what i did – and what ive been doing – was write non-stop about eight hours a day every day, trying to slice through the refuse and find whatever gems i could in the whole mess. the result of this blood, sweat and tears is strawberry press magazine volume one issue one.