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Writing Hour Roundup: 2 February 2021
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Without further ado, here are the answers to your questions all collected in one place.
Are you looking for stories set in summer at the moment?
Yes!
Have you managed to get to the office to retrieve postal submissions recently?
No, due to local regulations we haven’t been able to access the office to pick them up for a good while.
We thank everybody waiting on a response for their patience!
Would you consider any other genre for Pocket Novels? For example sci-fi or fantasy?
No, we stick to the same genres our readers like to see in the magazine.
That mystery?
Image by DC Thomson Ltd.
The above timeline is taken from our 150th Anniversary Special.
As you can see, for such a long-running magazine, we’ve had relatively few people in the editor’s chair.
That’s what makes the uncertainty even harder to bear!
A new candidate
Previous research has suggested our wartime editor could have been a man named John B Davidson. Recent work from the folks in our Archives has potentially proven that to be the case for at least a few years albeit with another in the position first.
Below is a letter sent to “Friend” favourite Annie S Swan (under her married name of Mrs Burnett Smith), detailing some staffing changes at the magazine.