MYTHOLOG
Editor-in-Chief: Winter 2002-Autumn 2007: Asher founded MYTHOLOG as a way of operating an electronic literary magazine with a globally distributed staff as a publishing venue for the decidedly odd. The theme of the magazine was literature with some connection to mythic themes, though not in particular mythological topics. The magazine’s editorial staff voted on submissions, edited, copy-edited, proofed, and published the work. The magazine eventually became a paying venue for writers. After a stellar five years, Asher decided to retire the publication (he says “suspend it indefinitely”) in order to pursue his own literary work. “Stopping things on a high note is perhaps the best way to go on to other projects. We created a successful, working magazine that did everything we intended to do, with a great staff, great writing and illustrations, and it’s still a great web site, too.” (The magazine’s full contents are still on the web for readers’ enjoyment.
Green Man Review
- Managing Editor (and Hand Sinister) April 2002-2003
- Film & Video Editor February 2002-2003
- (Emeritus from March 2003)
- Excellence in Editing Award (2002, August 25)
- Layout February 2002-March 2003
- Proofreader February 2002-2003
- Senior Reviewer June 2002-March 2003
- Staff Reviewer December 2001-March 2003
Green Man Review was (is?) the largest review magazine of folk music and folk-related literature in the world. Asher joined Green Man Review as a staff writer and quickly rose through ‘the ranks’, holding a variety of roles, including Film & Video Editor, dramatically increasing the number of film reviews at the magazine. Ultimately, he became Managing Editor, and helped bring the staff to 70 members, perhaps the largest globally distributed staff of any electronic magazine at the time. This was before the electronic media revolution, at a time when people still thought of electronic publication as somehow second to print, a situation that has since reversed, much like online education.
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