The Situation in Detail – and a Decision

Clearly, based on the utter lack of activity here, we did not move to Patheos. We ran into unanticipated legal issues, and so the move was canceled. I apologize for not explaining things sooner, but life has been getting in the way at a whole new level of crazy.

I want to take a few moments and just be frank with you all. I don’t have the patience right now to make this post all official-like, minding my diction and so forth. So I’m just going to tell you what’s what, and trust you to make the best of any minor grammatical errors which may intrude. This magazine was my baby for a long time; this past September marks five years for us. I took a hiatus about a year ago with the promise to update in a year’s time, regarding the future of this publication.

Right now, my heart is not in it. It many never be again. I honestly cannot predict what I may feel in the future, but if I were to continue stringing you all along with promises that never materialize, I would feel guilty for every day in which I wasn’t dedicating my energy to this end. Currently, in my life, I have school (I’m going full time for my Bachelor’s in Small Business Administration), my other business (aside from this ‘zine, which doesn’t make money), my family, a house and yard to remodel, and an honest-to-god social life that actually requires my time to maintain. School intrudes upon other things a great deal, as I’m sure you’ve experienced yourself. I’ve started investigating local hauntings and helping people here with spirit-related problems. This magazine is at the end of a long to-do list, and I’m not sure I’m ever going to get back to it.

Besides feeling guilty, going along with a “maybe we’ll be back” just keeps the pressure on me to decide one way or the other, to catch up with so much work (like restoring the now fabled archives) in order to feel I was doing my minimal duty. So, without even consulting my authors, who’ve been supportive for all my decisions, I am closing this magazine until such a day as I want to pick it up again. When I get the urge and when I have the time (and when both of these things coincide), I will restore the archives at my leisure. Ironically, this probably means they’ll be done sooner. But, I’m making no promises of adding new content — if it comes, you’ll see it when it shows up. If not, well, I won’t be breaking any more promises.

If I ever get my life together and have the time, energy, and drive to spare, I may pick this up again someday. I’ll be leaving the site up — it doesn’t hurt me in any way to do so — and keeping the domain name, so at least you’ll still have access to what you can read here now. I’m sorry for letting everyone down, but sometimes you just have to let go of something or you never make real progress anywhere.

My best to you all,
Sheta

October 2011 News

We’re taking submissions for October and on an ongoing basis. Starting later this month, we’ll be posting articles and other submissions as they come in, doing away with the issue-by-issue format we’ve had since 2006. This will have several effects, hopefully:

• No deadlines!
• Less stress on writers and artists — submit when you like!
• No long waits for your material to show up!
• Less stress on admin! (Yay!)
• More stuff, more often for readers! (Yay!)
• A much more peaceful RTV existence overall!

I’ll be appending here as news comes in. Right now the move to Patheos, which I thought was a done deal, has been derailed by legalese. I’m not yet sure what the outcome will be, but I’ll let you know as soon as I do.

Big News!

Rending the Veil will soon be moving to Patheos.com! Share our excitement — this means higher visibility for us, ritual magick content for them, and more content for you! Yay!

We will be kicking off the new setup in October, so watch for that. Until all of the archives are restored (even the bits that haven’t ever been restored here), we’ll be setting up a redirect on the front page, but leaving the content pages up until the move is complete. So at some point, when you go to “www.rendingtheveil.com” you’ll find yourself at the new site; however, if you click a link in Google to an actual article, it will continue to load the same as always. Redirects will be added once the content itself has been moved over. What does all this gobbledygook mean? It means you won’t find broken links, but that the various pages of the site might look either new, or old (like now), until it’s all been moved over… but you shouldn’t find anything unavailable that is available now. In addition, you’ll find older stuff restored.

Once we’re moved over and we’ve launched with a Samhain extravaganza, we’ll be going to an ongoing submission format, so no more quarterly issues. You’ll receive content as soon as I do. This is gonna be great!

If you haven’t been to Patheos yet, I recommend it! We’ll be their first ritual magick/Thelema magazine, so it’s good for us, and for them. The VP of Content told me he was “thrilled” that we were interested in joining them. Awesome!

Call for Papers – Magical Advice from All Practitioners

Infinite Possibility
Sheta Kaey – Owner and curator
sheta@spiritcompanion.com
281-684-6507

I screen all calls so either email me your area code and the time you need to call, and I’ll watch for it. Or just leave a voice mail and I’ll call you back.

Sheta Kaey, that’s me, will edit an anthology of nonfictional content focused on the most important information you’ve ever learned with regard to esotercism and the occult. I’d like to receive submissions beginning at 750 words and up. Longer submissions must maintain the readers interest and keep him involved. Humor is always a pleasant addition.

Consider a bullet or numbered list in which you briefly state a few words of straightforward advice, then go on for a paragraph and explain what you mean or why it is such a crucial thing to understand. What changes are wrought by that understanding? These examples should at least get you wondering what list you have that is dying to be represented.

• 7 Things you can find in your nearby woods that can upgrade or benefit your herb garden.
• 25 Things I learned while working with Enochian angels and the aeythyrs.
• 14 Assumptions I used to make and how I learned to XYZ.
• A list of ironic political and religious quotes and the ironies they represent.

Payment will be a copy of the book.

Deadline for submissions is November 1st. If you want to include something but aren’t sure of your time, write me, and update me often so that I know you haven’t forgotten. If deadline approaches and we still need your piece, we’ll work together to figure out a solution.

Patrick Dunn Releases Book of Poetry

Watch for Random Content

We’re going to try something new to keep you folks amused til the site is ready to kick off again, in about six months. I’ve set up an auto-post function with a site called “Web Traffic Control.” (If you are familiar with this, please comment and give me your impressions.) I will keep an eye on the site in the event that the content they post is inappropriate. I’ve signed up for several categories from “Environment” to “Spirituality”; gods only know what might show up.

Edit to add: This place is not a “content farm.” I took a closer look. The posts are screened by staff members and I have approval control before they’re posted. So, it should be fine.

Be of good cheer — We may get back sooner and we may be switching to a post-’em-as-they-arrive format, similar to other sites. And stay tuned later this year for a call for volunteers.

You can keep submitting, meanwhile, to submissions@rendingtheveil.com. See you soon!

Poll: Ongoing Format?

There’s a poll up in the sidebar, or you can answer here:

How do you feel about changing from an issue format to an ongoing format? In other words, content would be added individually as it was submitted, as opposed to held back to be released in a multi-article issue.

Thanks!

Call for Submissions – Ancestor Anthology

Asphodel Press

Working Title: Calls to Our Ancestors

An anthology of prayers, poems, devotional pieces, essays, personal experience, and/or artwork in honor of our Ancestors. This anthology draws from a variety of sources and authors, and may include Ancestors worship with Gods, spirits and/or human Dead.

What is not desired: fanfic, ego-stroking, self-aggrandizement. It’s one thing if you believe you’re sired by a God/dess, it’s another to treat other humans as lower than yourself.

Word Length: 800 words minimum for essays. Long essays welcome and encouraged. Please submit with no specialized fonts, in .doc, .docx, or .rtf file format. Any devotional pieces, artwork, and other visual submissions need to be no less than 300 dpi, preferably .tiff or .png for lossless quality.

Contributors will not be paid for this contribution. This is a one-time publishing opportunity, so you retain all rights to your piece and can use it as you wish after publication.

Any contributors need to give their legal names and addresses in the email for a release form for their work.

The deadline for submissions is June 2nd, 2011 at 11:59pm, Eastern Summer Time (GMT-4)

Interested parties may email Sarenth@gmail.com.

10 Down, 13 to Go

I’ve incorporated the little bit of content from the truncated Midsummer issue into the new Autumn issue. Counting these, there are now 10 pieces up for Autumn, so far. I’ve got 13, possibly 14, more to do. Unfortunately, I’m averaging about 3 new posts per day. I think the content will be worth the wait. Please enjoy it as it trickles in over the next few nights. I hope you find this a fitting send-off for our hiatus.

Happy November!

— Sheta

Slight Delay due to Health

I had a kidney stone attack a couple of days ago and am not feeling well, so the Autumn issue will be about 3 days late. I’m working on it, but at a slower pace than usual. Thanks for your patience.

— Sheta

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