On Sat, 14 Jun 2014 07:15:52 +0100, Timothy Collinson
<xxxxxx@port.ac.uk> wrote:

>I found, when doing a monthly magazine ten years ago, that much though
>it irritated me, a combined issue once a year gave 'catch up' time and
>a bit of a break for myself and family.  So I learned to accept that
>it wasn't a failure - even if I could never quite come up with an
>adequate replacement for 'monthly' when it was 11/year!  And the
>summer is a good time to do the double issue when many readers might
>take a holiday anyway.

Yeah, and I can't say I'm in bad company in doing so; even Asimov's
seems to do one, possibly two, double issues per year, and skips a month
(usually, December) for them. And there are any number of magazines, not
excluding the original print JTAS, that are only quarterly to begin
with...

Still, it bothers me...

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