Change Is The Only Constant

Goat

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Scene & Heard (SNH)

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5 min readJul 30, 2018

“No news is good news” and in this case explains my elusive nature over the last weeks. Without making too much of a grand re-entrance, I’d like you all to see and hear what has been going on at the SNH homestead.

Salutatory Issue- Now a Limited Edition

Weighing in at a whopping 780 grams or 1.72 pounds is 132 pages bursting with colour and word-smithery. The Salutatory Issue has reached anticipating hands and eyes — —we are receiving a steady flow of messages, expressing gratitude, connection, encouragement, warmth, kudos & props, as well as suggestions and proposals.

Taking homes by storm in:
USA, Jamaica, Canada, India, Australia,Spain, Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Bosnia, Russia, Ukraine, Japan, South Africa, Kenya, & Tanzania…

SNH is on a steady and sturdy path, gaining the momentum and the reception we had anticipated for it. We are pleased. Equally pleased, are our readers, writers and artists.

“Goat’s Tagged Team”:

Sign up to be tagged to goat your hands on the Salutatory Issue with a discount code! Click here to get on my “Tagged Team”

If you happen to have been tagged in this letter-comment or reply “Tagged and loaded” <grins>.

“ A KID CALLED GERALD” BY CHARLOTTE GERRARD

Praise, as well as the critical & constructive feedback has been a gift for us. As we underwent a “debriefing” process, seeing & hearing what our readers have to say, has gifted us with due insight, leading us to make decisions to take the publication to a whole new level.

Essentially, the Salutatory Issue has been the spring-board for the publication, and we now find that it has also acted as a catalyst for change, albeit earlier than anticipated. In our view, the Salutatory Issue has been a successful pilot issue, the “mother” of all subsequent issues if you will, sharing its DNA while withstanding a few twists and turns.

CHANGES? WHAT CHANGES? WHY?

Change is avoided, change is not always well received, however, as the ancient Heraclitus opined- change is the only thing constant.

With that, we shall not argue, instead, we are hoofing it to march onward and upward.

The objectives of the changes envisaged are by design amongst other things, to increase the readership by ten-fold and introduce a new twist, the details of which I shall be announcing August 17th 2018.

For now, I leave you in minor suspense and trust that your curiosity is piqued.

Stay tuned…

Editorial and admin processes

Current Submission Call On Medium:

“Vertical Light”

Issue 2:

Contributors who have had work accepted for the second print issue of Scene & Heard will be contacted individually between July 30th and August 15th 2018.

Colours Of Life Submission Call- online tavern & print

Those of you who have submitted work in response to the submission call, “Colours of Life” you will be hearing from the editorial team with a “yay” or “nay” by the second week of August 2018. Any last minute submitters? You have a few hours left to submit.

Contributor Copies & Orders

For those who have not received their contributor/ordered copies, please email billing.goat@tshjournal.com

Yes, <sheepishly> we have been behind on responding to emails-an overwhelming number of submissions and feedback. Hence…to ensure that our response time is better- I have added on to my team, trusting that this will ensure you hear back from the SNH homestead in good time.

Until next week, cheers from Goat Mountain!

With warmth and appreciation,