Re: American Independent Magazine -- next issue???

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From: "hhclutter" <hhclutter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Hi Frank,
> 
> What is the status of AIM?  The last issue that I received was the AIM Annual... Sixth Edition, issue #32.  Is this the last issue published?  The information on my mailing label is as follows:
> 
> Howard H. Clutter 12/05
>  
> Please let me know whether I missed an issue somehow or not??!!
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Howard

You haven't missed an issue, I HAVE! If you read the editorials you'll note that I thought I might miss an issue in Korea or when moving. Well, moving did me in! I was all set, had an issue  20% done before leaving Korea, and about 30% before I moved my wife and kid up to Dover (I came back in March, had to wait until June to move them so kid could graduate). I was thinking I needed to back some files up, connected my USB CD burner, powered the laptop up, and the hard drive went! I wasn't having problems, just figured it was time to do some backups. The HD failed big time -- I lost the whole thing. This was about three weeks before the big move. So now I had to order a hard drive, rebuild the computer, move an entire house hold, get my family settled in, I was really just starting to get into my new job in contracting, AND I had to start over the next issue of AIM completely from scratch, with no material whatsoever to start with!! It was just to much -- I was overwhelmed! 

So issue #33 didn't go out in June or July, but will come out in mid October. I needed the break -- I was starting to feel some burn-out after eight years of printing AIM!! There will be a late December or January issue, then I'll get back on track with the late March to mid April issue. No one will miss anything -- I'll extend all existing subscriptions by one issue. Of course new subscribers won't be affected. 

--
Frank Swygert
Publisher, "American Independent 
Magazine" (AIM)
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