Mission Statement

Mission Statement for Resonance Magazine
from editor Evan Pritchard

No score, and 20 years ago, I launched what became the first nationally distributed desk-top published arts magazine, Resonance Magazine, A Journal of Art Music and Ideas. During our first two years (under the title Spiritually Free Press) we widened the margins to create a long, slender column of type, then hand cut and waxed the columns and pictures together on boards to create our layout, and then with the help of a local typesetter Mitch Glick, we were able to put together an arts and spirituality magazine of such quality that we were picked up by a number of distributors, and got interviews with nationally known authors and musicians. Within a few years, we were distributed nationwide by Barnes and Nobles and other chains, all still pasted together with scissors and glue on our kitchen desktop. That was an exciting time.

Resonance became a 100 page phenomenon, and discovered many new poets and musicians, some of whom went on to enjoy fame and fortune. We had dedicated distribution in a dozen major cities from coast to coast. But in 1995, postage went up and advertising went down, so Resonance turned to publishing books instead, and published nationally distributed books such as From the Temple Within, and also became a consulting firm to other small publishing companies, which is still the case. (We redesigned the entire line of books from Hampton Roads, but advised them not to take up The Celestine Prophecy, as spiritual novels were not selling at that time. Okay, everyone is entitled to one mistake!) Resonance was online for a year as a website, www.resonancecomm.com but there were technical difficulties and it went under around ten years ago, 1996. During the seven years we published, there were no other Resonance Magazines in existence. Now there are at least twenty, including publications by the University of Minnesota, a musicians cooperative in the UK, a magazine chain in the Northwest, a Hi Fidelity magazine, and one that features interviews with people like Howard Zinn, to name a few. Fortunately, we are the only Resonancemagazine at blogspot.com.

Now with the breakthroughs in internet technology, we have blogzines that can be produced with great ease and rapidity. In order to re-establish Resonance Magazine in a way that is worthy of our name and reputation, I have developed a new way of using existing blog technology to cluster blogsites together to form a periodical magazine with complete archives in a dozen topics, the same ones you see in a daily newspaper:
sports, (amazine1.blogspot.com)
books, reviews, (resonancemagazine.blogspot.com)
weather/climate change (evansearthwatch.blogspot.com)
editorial and personal newscasting (evansearthwalk.blogspot.com)
who's who/people/gossip (peopleofmanitou.blogspot.com)
current events (threelanterns.blogspot.com)
religion (roadstoawareness.blogspot.com)
and of course, as always, poetry (waxpoetickle.blogspot.com).
Resonance may also list Evan's events schedules from time to time.
We are also looking for advertising via google.
The main blogsite will contain a fresh mix of the latest releases on all these topics. These articles will also appear in the clustered blogs. Then as new articles are posted, old ones are erased from Resonance, and archived on the clustered blogs.

It will take a few weeks to get the framework completely up and running, but there is already a great deal to read and enjoy.

Your comments are welcome!

Evan Pritchard
Master Blogger