Treating each new issue as a gift...

...and turning our eyes and hands to content & design - what will arrive in your mailbox mid-June?

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NQ taking shape

Rivits of ideas, ribs of stories, not ready to sail but structure underway...

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Yikes, those old sands of time...

It seems we just launched our Spring Issue - and what a nice reaction we're getting to our beautiful cover drawing by Phillipa Jones - but according to the calendar we're already under a month to the next copy deadline. So, without further ado, let the assembling begin.

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And we have a winner

We went on the air with Ted Blades on CBC's On The Go, and the beautiful and talented Lynda Boyd (you know her of course as Rose on the hit Republic of Doyle), and we talked about the magazine and the tv show and all kinds of interesting stuff - and then Ms. Boyd drew the winning entry. Joseph Gough of Ontario won - he bought the NQ as a Christmas gift for his wife so good karma all around.

(Image: our fall issue cover, showing Happy Valley, Labrador by Jean Claude Roy, and a very very special thank you to this artist who is so very generous to us.)

NQ as Easter treat

Spring 2012 arrives today, and we'll be turning our mailout around as fast as possible - maybe they'll even reach you in time for the Easter weekend. That would be some nice writing to consume, along with chocolate bunnies and foil-wrapped eggs.

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People, too, move in waves

Here's a hint of a possible upcoming theme - and a visual reference to Memorial's Reunion in August - the first ever. All different cohorts. For my part, well, remember the Science cafe? Zippered skinny jeans? Dead Reckoning playing the Green Room? If so, thou art a child of the '80s, and you may wish to reconnect with same.

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Our green-tinged deadline

Some are getting a St. Patrick's Day holiday, others await Sheilagh's Brush. At the NQ office we're 24 and 1/2 hours from our file-to-printers deadline. With some hard work and a bit of luck, possibly Irish, we should just make it.

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