OneVoice Time for Change

by Amy Barnes

Sometimes, as a business owner, you have to stop, regroup and admit things just did not go as planned. We recently had to do that in the Joy home office.

It was not easy and some decisions were much harder than others. One of the hardest parts to being an independent publisher is that you do not have a big outof-town corporation to provide support or a franchise company to lean on.

You have to figure out how to pull your company’s fanny out of the fire on your own and many times that is when you will get hit from all sides by incoming shots and jabs. That is when you learn who your true friends are because they will stand with you, tissues at the ready.

Due to several acts of God, equipment failures, labor issues, and other assorted sticks-in-the-spokes-of-our-bicycle-tires, that were out of my control, we ended up having to pull to the side of the road and regroup.

So, for the first time in the magazine’s history, this is a combined three-month issue of January, February and March. You might want to order a print copy of this one (https://www.blurb.com/user/BlakeHouse) , it just might end up being a collector’s item!

This radical temporary turn in the road inspired us to do a couple of other things

VOLS. 6-7 NOS. 12-2 we have never done before. Page 3, which always had the Table of Contents, has been opened up for advertising.

The good news is that the Table of Contents has moved to a two-page spread on Pages 4 and 5. This gives our poor layout department room to breathe and to make the point size larger so the contents can more easily be read.

Some changes come with losses. We have sadly temporarily lost our bicycle columnist, Robert Soroky, who was the manager of Century Cycles in Medina until it closed March 1, 2024. The good news is that he has promised that wherever he lands, he will be back with more for us, just on a different topic (or maybe some creative writing pieces for our “Reading Nook”).

We are planning to add a couple of serials within the next month or two, one is fiction and one is non-fiction and there are a couple of new columnists warming up in the wings, getting ready to show off their stuff.

There are other changes coming, but they are on the planning and prep deck right now, so you will just have to stay tuned to find out what they are.

So sit back, relax and let us add Joy to your life! We will be back to monthly publication with the April issue.

Tyler

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