Letter From the Editor I'm totally exhausted. I have been for about two months. In trying to figure out why, I finally realized that in just 6 months, I've built and opened my own website, added Cissy to it, started the very popular Industry News page, attempted to keep the Wardrobe Mixers list up-to-date, and published 4 issues of High Maintenance - which is really a full year's worth, all while constantly designing new outfits and finding new things to sell on my site. Also, this particular issue, for various reasons, was significantly more work than usual. I cannot keep this pace up! In 2004, there will be four issues of High Maintenance for the year, not four in the first six months. The next three issues are already largely planned out, with a wonderful new and, as yet, unknown designer being featured in the Spring 2004 issue! One of my favorite things is finding new talent and introducing them to the doll community. Unfortunately, the nature of the magazine business (with it's 3-6 month lag time) often means that my "discoveries" are discovered before I can show them off! With the recent addition of Haute Doll and Fashion Doll Quarterly magazines to the doll community, I'm beginning to wonder if High Maintenance has a decreasing value to my subscribers. It's an awful lot of work for my staff and I to do if these new print magazines have made HM in any way redundant or obsolete. One major advantage HM has is that I can do in depth articles and make them as long as I want. I'm not confined by a print magazine's budgeted number of pages. This also means I can use many more pictures too. If you'd care to write and give me feedback on whether or not HM still has a useful and significant place in the doll community, I'd really appreciate your opinions. If it's no longer needed, I could use that extra time to um..... maybe... actually... have a life!
Lisa A. Lawrence
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