Hiatus and Holidays

[wistfuljane]

Hello - it's been awhile since newslettering has hosted an open thread (such as it is)!

murklins and I are editors for dotcoms_refresh, a Bandom newsletter, and this year, due to scheduling craziness, the newsletter will be on hiatus for a week long period next week. It'll be the first time that dotcoms_refresh has gone on a break and we're quite anxious about it.

That brings today's topic: hiatus and holidays!

Has your newsletter ever gone on a hiatus? Will it this year? What were the reasons for the break and how long was it? How do you deal with the missed links? Let us know your blueprint for the perfect newslettering break!

If your newsletter doesn't go on break during the winter holiday season and your newsletter is fanwork-centric, how do you deal with the busy season? When most of fandom is busy with holiday exchanges and challenges and RL for most editors is hectic? Let us know how you deal with holiday craziness!

Comments

[hermitsoul]

One of mine is on hiatus now, but that is due to fannish slow down, not the holidays. The other one is a weekly newsletter and the posting day falls after Christmas so I won't put that one on hiatus.

I have put them on hiatus in the past due to holidays/traveling. Then I did go back and collect links for whatever time I missed. However, neither of my fandoms are high traffic, so it's not that difficult to stay on top of things.

[wistfuljane]

One of mine is on hiatus now, but that is due to fannish slow down, not the holidays.

Ah, is it an indefinite hiatus until there's more activity or do you have a time frame of when you'll want the newsletter to resume?

[hermitsoul]

Well, it's a Yuletide fandom (Sports Night), so I'll definitely have some links next month, but I'm thinking that will be my last. I'll see if anyone wants to take it over, but we'll see. There's very little fannish activity, or at least very little I think the SN fandom as a whole may be interested in. Sports Night is one of those fandoms everyone mentions in posts, but doesn't really discuss/write for/etc, if that makes sense.

Of course, then I know I'll find myself taking on another newsletter. *sigh* It's just so wrong that some fandoms don't have a newsletter!

[wistfuljane]

That must be disappointing. =\

Of course, then I know I'll find myself taking on another newsletter. *sigh* It's just so wrong that some fandoms don't have a newsletter!

Hee! I know what you mean. It's good for me that I have dotcoms_refresh to keep my hands full, because otherwise, yes.