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Frankie Magazine, Issue 86 Frankie covers all sorts of loveliness, and makes you feel like you're with a friend, not just reading a magazine. I love the cover of this issue. Visit Frankie Magazine website here.
Side note
I love magazines so much so I studied Magazine Publishing as a degree. Having graduated in 2013, I was joining the industry at a time when brands, editors and companies were scrambling to work out what online content was, what it could do, and how to do it, I couldn't get a job in an editors office in the traditional sense considering the transition period the industry was in the midst of, and I refused to work for free, work in a paid internships hoovering floors and making coffee, or take on anything that I wasn't comfortable with (like first working in sales and advertising as a way to get into the writing and editing teams).
"I was never going to sell my soul"
I was never going to sell my soul. I loved magazines but didn't agree with the set up, the structure and the expectation to work for free. Skip ahead a few years, and after two experiences; one job as a Features Editor for a small business and entrepreneurial magazine (which I loved) but ended as the business owner said he could't pay me a full time wage, despite the job requiring full time hours, and another alright paid full time job in 2016 for a media company that turned out to be full of broken promises and absolutely not want the job role said it was with a CEO who preferred to Whatsapp me as he walk by my desk, instead of talking to me... (yeh go figure the weirdness of THAT behaviour), I stepped away from it all.
The magazines I love are small, crafted labours of love in the independent magazine publishing industry. Celebrated by companies like Stack and MagCulture, these magazines are beautiful. I continue to buy them, and love them, and write about them on this blog. Maybe they can accept a paid contribution now and again, but ultimately there are no full time jobs working for many of them. So here I will continue to publish sometimes long, sometimes shorts posts, depending on how I feel, on the independent magazines I have on my shelf.
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