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Everything Else / Re: Hey Caballero!
« on: March 21, 2006, 01:11:40 AM »
I remember that, too, Brandon. But I wasn't going to bring it up, at least not directly. Didn't know how you felt about it.  ;D

Dang it, I can't find that issue on my bookshelf. I must have put it somewhere. I have all the issues around it.

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Books / Re: Top 3 Books
« on: March 19, 2006, 11:35:39 PM »
I also have a very small list of books that I will actually reread from time to time. Ender's Game, LOTR, and a few others.

I've got The First Circle by Solzhenitsyn checked out right now. I love stories about prison, or military cadets.

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Everything Else / Re: Hey Caballero!
« on: March 19, 2006, 11:28:48 PM »
I think TLE has such a long life span because it is not in the business of making money. Instead, its main purpose is to be a gathering place for people interested in the genre and to provide great training ground for the publication industry.

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Everything Else / Re: Hey Caballero!
« on: March 16, 2006, 03:27:02 AM »
Remember the White Issue? I think it was Carl Ernstrom who designed that one. :) Not much of a cover, but as I recall it had some really good stuff inside it.

That's really sad about the Grovers. I didn't know that was why they left.

Once I became Production Director, I pretty much missed everything that was going on upstairs at the table. I kind of regret that. But I got to know the basement of the HumPub very well.

And everybody knows about the secret passage below the building, right?

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Everything Else / Re: Hey Caballero!
« on: March 14, 2006, 03:30:53 AM »
Oh man, too many names all at once. I remember the Grovers, I think. Maybe I don't. Didn't they write stories together? I remember the guy telling us that you had to write one a week. They were there when I first started in 95, and left after about a year.

I remember you, Vanessa, unless I'm totally crazy. But I can't remember how much we overlapped. And I remember Carl Ernstrom. We had some great conversations around the big table in the HumPub when we were supposed to be reading. :) Peter I definitely remember--how could you forget anyone who rode a unicycle? And Karen and Doug and Loralee. Good times. Now I'm remembering the copy machine in that little kitchen, and shaking the toner cartridge to get a few more copies out of it. And I wonder if the fiction drawer is still anything like how I organized it. :)

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Site News / Re: Introduce yourself - right on!
« on: March 13, 2006, 03:17:00 AM »
I'm Jeromy Caballero, and while I am slowly pulling away from life on Internet forums, I thought I could waste some quality time here. :) I am proud that it only took me 30 minutes or so to find the proper place to post an intro.

A certain Mr. Wells was kind enough to refer me to this site. I've known Dan for years now and have had the pleasure of working with him at The Leading Edge and as his colleague in A Paying Job.

I worked at The Leading Edge all through my years at BYU, from 1995 to the end of 1999, ending up as Associate Editor before life tugged me away to other pursuits. It was some of the best experience I have had in the writing world (and the nadir of my writing career so far, based on a stupid article of mine in one of the issues, but live and learn). I am very grateful to whoever posted that ugly little flyer I found in the SWKT early in my first semester at BYU. It led me over to the HumPub for the first time and introduced me to some very fine people and the perfect opportunity to do what I love the most--read speculative fiction.

I recognize some of the names posted in this thread. Hello to former TLE colleagues! I pretty much dropped off the map after I left, and I apologize for not keeping in touch. I was about to get married, was working full time, and had graduated from BYU--big life-changing stuff.

Seems like I left right before a golden age (or more likely, my departure helped prompt said golden age). Brandon took my place, and apparently the rest is history. Let me say how proud I was to see Brandon's name on the cover of Elantris. I first saw the book in WaldenBooks at the Provo mall. The sales guy told me there was a new book by someone at BYU, and went and got it out of the back. I actually did the cartoon jaw-drop and the google-eyes. Then I had to bubble about how I knew Brandon, how he had been my Assistant Production Director at one point (it even says so on one of the mastheads! [/shameless name-dropping]), and how awesome it was to see him in print--by TOR, no less! Way to go, Brandon!

So I'm happy to be here, and excited to re-make some acquaintences.

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