Author Archives: Rosalynn

What The Font?

Okay, so I came across this little diversion in The Globe and I couldn’t resist.  If you’ve got five minutes to spare and are in the least bit curious as to what type (yes, as in font) you are, take this short—four question—survey offered by the British design firm Pentagram, here. For the record: I [...]

TNQ How-to: Save on your subs

I subscribe to a handful of Canadian mags, for two reasons: love and principle. The love part needs no further explanation; as for principle, well, as a publisher, I understand how important subscriptions are, particularly to small magazines. I realize that our fates are being decided by the length of our mailing lists, though I’ve [...]

Another Mighty Small Mag: Bywords

Thanks to Amanda Earl for taking time out of (I imagine, thanks to the below!) an extraordinarily busy day to tell us all about Bywords.
What does a day at the Bywords look like?
Bywords.ca is a volunteer non profit organization with the volunteers working primarily on line from Australia, Toronto and Ottawa. There are a [...]

Open to the World

So, like most everyone else, I’ve been thinking an awful lot about pay walls, thanks to the recent announcement that The New York Times is installing one as soon as Jan 2011. Even if you’ve never heard the term, chances are you’ve run up against a pay wall at some point, as many news-based sites [...]

Ask Me Again Ten Years Ago

I was recently asked what it was like to publish the magazine today versus ten years ago. At first I laughed, thinking I haven’t been here nearly that long—but then Kim and I got to talking. I’ve been involved with TNQ in one capacity or another since 2002, which means I’m going on eight years [...]

Who’s Reading What

As each new issue of TNQ rolls off the press, our intrepid Postscripts Editor Amy King writes its contributors to ask what they’re reading. With a few exceptions, it seems the contributors to our Winter issue, No. 113: Matters of the Heart, are reading some pretty sombre, but powerful, stuff. Check it out—especially if [...]