A Letter to Our Readers

The astute observer will no doubt have noticed a few changes at Chasing Hats. We assume most of our readers are astute observers, but we wouldn’t like anyone to feel left out. Thus, this letter.

You must remember that your editors are young, and we like to think we’re terribly clever – but we often end up proving ourselves wrong. In this case, we’re learning about running a magazine, and learning that everything we wanted to do in the beginning isn’t always possible. We’re learning what’s realistic for young editors who think they’re clever, and what isn’t. We’ve decided to do a few things differently than we’ve been doing, so we can focus on providing you, the reader, with quality content.

First: We have changed our updating policy. Instead of randomly posting articles, as it were, on some days and not on others, we’ll be posting new content in each category once a week, on Thursdays. Don’t ask us why we chose Thursday. We just did, and you’ll have to live with it.

Second: We have decided to focus on three categories, instead of spreading ourselves across seven. The Opinion, Church, and Family columns have all been combined into a single Opinion column. Film and Music have been combined into Media. The Imagination column will stay as it is, mainly since we didn’t really have anything else to combine it with. Letters to the editor, previously published in a Response column, will now be published in whichever of the above three is the most relevant. As for our daily links, they will be discontinued for now, to be added again at a future date. Got it? Good.

Third: We are no longer accepting random submissions. Actually, we made this our policy a few weeks ago, but this is an official announcement of it. Right now, we’re looking for writers to join us – writers who would be willing to give us a commitment of, say, an essay (or story, or review) every two weeks. We can’t offer pay, as young editors often are simply scraping by themselves. We can, however, offer publicity and witty emails and a chance to work on a team with people who think they’re clever (us). If this appeals to you, let us know. We’ll want to see a few samples of your work, of course.

There. That wasn’t so hard. We’d like to say thanks to you all – thanks for reading our site and passing the link around to your friends. You did pass it around to your friends, didn’t you? Good. Thanks!

Cheerio, and we look forward to seeing your electronic faces again!
  – The Editors