Woohoo!

I just got my first two designs accepted to the Designer Spotlight over at iStock. I know that's not saying much, but it's immensely gratifying to me because I am not a designer, and I've been really agonizing over the various spreads. I know there's a typo in that version of Fat Around The Heart (whoops), but as I've been working on the magazine, it's gotten easier. Really, the hard part was spending weeks staring at a blank InDesign document-- it was way easier working on someone else's project, especially because he had a very specific idea and the layout was so straightforward.

I'm still hurting for about three pages in each section, but once those pages are filled, the two sections by themselves will be about 30 pages-- my goal for the magazine was a minimum of 40. So that means that three interviews, two features, a letter from the editor, and a letter from the assistant editor have to fill ten pages? Yeah, we'll be fine for space. And that's not even counting, like, TOC or the contributor directory!

I am starting to really be happy about this project, instead of just worried sick.