Damn.
A mentor, Ed, is fond of saying that ‘even with the most diligent planning events NEVER move down the ideal path we’ve drawn for them in our minds eye’.
This past week’s announcement launch of Swing the Fly magazine has been a great demonstration of that simple truth.
We’ve frankly been stunned at the level of interest as evidenced in subscription sign ups and the attention Swing the Fly has drawn so far on Facebook and Twitter. By the way, subscribers who sign up before the July 1 launch by the way will be enrolled for gear and swag giveaways.
We’re deeply humbled at the interest and wish to issue all who have expressed interest thus far a hearty THANK YOU!
We’ve launched the Swing the Fly Blog here; we’ll be posting (not every day mind you) updates on projects we’re working on for the mag, reminders about regional claves, meet-ups, events where the greats will be demonstrating casting and other skills to we mere mortals. There might even be the occasional fishing report.
Submissions are humming; frankly Zack sent over a piece this weekend from a friend of his that may have been the most impressive piece of fly fishing prose I’ve ever read on a single page. More on submission guidelines and contacts here.
We’re standing by the submission hot line day and night (I guess nobody probably actually uses the ‘hot line’ phone any more…)
New teams members will be announced this week as well.
Finally, we’ve locked down a store portal and will have it up and running with the first iterations of Swing the Fly swag in a couple of weeks.
Thanks again.
