Editorial calendar

Here is the Blast Magazine editorial calendar.

We hope publicists will use this to coordinate giveaways, photos, pitches, reviews, etc, but it is not, by any means, set in stone. Send all pitches to newsroom@blastmagazine.com

All subjects are subject to subjective changes in subject matter.

2008

November

Seeking expert guest columns pre-election
Blast will liveblog election night. Seeking an election night sponsor.

December

AUDIO AUDIO AUDIO!!!
Speakers, stereos, iPod docks, home theater units, everything audio!

2009

January

Open.

February

We usually do spring fashion, relationships, sex features and food.

March

We’re seeking a technology cover story. We need an exclusive with high-resolution art.

April

Music and swimwear is the the focus in April. Seeking submissions for photo shoots and music interviews.

May

We do a Hollywood/Summer movies cover either in May or June.

June

Open

July

E3 conference. — We run an extra issue. Seeking E3 sponsor.
Comic-con.
Also seeking outfits and late summer/fall fashion ideas for a cover photo shoot.

August

Leipzig Games Convention.
Music has traditionally been the cover focus.

September

Sexy back to school, fall fashion, television previews.

October-December

Open.

Retro Section

The Old Shoebox First of the month

This feature launched in November 2007 to amazing popularity among 20 and 30-something gamers.

November 1, 2007: “I think all of us tech-nerds have one. An old sneaker box with magazine CD’s, old operating systems, multiple game distributions, early CDR’s of Knoppix and a burned copy of Microsoft Office 2000 — before they started limiting how many times you could use the CD key. I’m dusting off these half-scratched discs, taking the legal stuff and giving you a bunch of freebies” — John Guilfoil

The Old Shoebox is a salute to a different age of gaming and computing. We are actively seeking new pitches, contributions, ideas and a key sponsor for the section.

Retro game reviews 15th of the month

Also launched November 2007: “I put together and edited a bunch of 10-year-old tech and game reviews. Not exactly cover stories, but there’s some serious gaming history in these articles.” — jg

Seeking contributions from reviewers and bloggers. The reviews should be originals from when the product was released.

Retro features No set schedule

Retro was one of our first features back at launch time. We need new tech and non-tech retro feature pitches and contributions. Examples: Old calculators we used in kindergarten, old toys, “Speak and Say” type early electronics. Tiger handheld games? Old toasters? Mods of old gaming systems?