wow.

My hands are shaking and my heart is fluttering.

The idea of publishing a magazine has been floating in my mind for many years, but I didn't make the decision to proceed with it until this past Christmas. Deidre and I began working on it in earnest in January. I still can't quite believe that we accomplished so much in just three months. UPPERCASE magazine is really the culmination of a dozen years of freelance graphic design experience and four years of this creative entrepreneurial adventure called UPPERCASE. All the skills I have acquired over the years have been put to use... and then some! It has been an amazing learning experience and so creatively satisfying.

Blanca Gomez provided the perfect cover image. Blanca, I am so grateful for your generosity. Thank you.

Deidre, thank you for your inexhaustable flow of ideas. And for truly putting your heart into it.

Thank you, Glen, for writing some terrific articles and for listening to me talk about the minutiae of the magazine's progression.

The shipment of magazines is on its way from Winnipeg and we expect them tomorrow. Everything's on schedule for the launch celebration this Thursday from 5pm - 9pm. In the meantime, I'm transforming the gallery space for the treehouse show, adding new subscribers (thank you!), filling our biggest Eclectonote order ever, and sending out Jen11 orders. I'm going to leave this post up for a while, to bask in the moment... and I've got a lot more work to do!

See you on Thursday!

Comments

[valerie]

Wonderful! Congrats! Will you be selling individual magazines?

[Amy@OldSweetSong]

Yahoo! Congrats!

[Janine]

Although you are most welcome to purchase single copies of issue one, we encourage you to subscribe to the magazine. Not only will you save on the per-issue cost and postage (which is included in the subscription but not the single issue cover price), your subscription helps us a great deal in managing the expense of printing.

Single copies are now available in the shop:
http://shop.uppercasegallery.ca/collections/uppercase-magazine

[Cawlin]

hooray, can't wait to get my grubby hands on a copy thursday!

[Kathryn]

Yay!!! Congratulations Janine! Can't wait to see it in person!

[Elaine]

Congratulations. I've just subscribed. (I hope you've printed enough issues of #1. It looks like it's going to be a bestseller.)

[Jessica]

so gorgeous, I hope I can scrimp my money for a copy!

[Janice]

Congratulations...looks like an exception to the rule of don't be judging a book by it's cover.

looking forward to Thursday

[karyn]

it just looks amazing!! i can't wait to see every single page. this is a huge accomplishment, janine. CONGRATULATIONS!!!

[chile logela]

pretty illustration!

[Gis]

It looks AMAZING!!
Congratulations x 1000!!

[Janine]

You guys are so great! Thanks for the encouragement and subscriptions.

[Danny Lin]

This is awesome, Janine!

Congratulations!

[jan]

Oh congrats to you! Can hardly wait to see my copy!

[Julie]

Hey Janine! Sending our best wishes for tonight! We also added a little show some love link to our blog that links to the mag. Hopefully help to spread the word!

Have fun :)

[Lauren K]

Oh how lovely! It looks wonderful! Yay! Congrats!

[Bonnie]

Congratulations, Janine, on achieving a lifelong dream. We can hardly wait to receive our copy in the mail. Congratulations also to all those who contributed to the first issue.
Love Mom and Dad

[Kaetlyn Wilcox]

I'm dying for my copy. Dying! I found Uppercase through Camilla Engmann's blog, and subscribed immediately to the magazine and books. If tomorrow wasn't Sunday I'd wait by the door for the postman.

[puglyfeet]

I can't wait to buy a copy. Tried ordering via Paypal just now, but the only payment accepted was via credit card (?) -- no eChecks accepted.

Anyhow, will order within a week -- very excited!