Is anyone here familiar with Cicada magazine or its online forum, The Slam? Muse‘s publisher puts them out for people who like to read and write fiction.
Also, any past or present Cricket readers on the blog? Just curious.
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I read Cicada. I like Cicada. It’s really cool. I used to get Cricket, but now I don’t.
Yes! yesyesyesyes! I read Cricket, but they never send me issues– they just kinda ignore me untill I write them. once I thought about doing the slam, but that was years ago, and I didn’t anyway. Zyviva does too, but she always gets her issues a month late (cricket AND Muse) b/c her sister steals them. Could we have a slam here? pretty please?
A slam here? That’s one for Robert to think about. He’s the blogfather. But he’s on a fabulous vacation now so we might have to wait to hear from him.
You mean a flamablamablus vacation. I was thinking about switching to Cicada, but I would only get 6 issues a year. Baaad. And a slam would be good, because I, for one, wouldn’t need to put each seperate chapter of the Steel story on the comment box, which is really annoying. plus the Cicada slam crashes my computer for some reason.
I get cricket. I’ve read a Cicada befor, but i got bord.
Oooh, I was planning on getting Cicada around Christmas.
It’s too bad it’s only six issues a year though.
I’m not 100 percent on vacation yet. I’m easing into it.
Phoenix (2): do you mean that you don’t get issues that you’ve subscribed to? Does that happen often? As for your question, what we’ve been doing with “Dragonseye” is fairly Slam-like, don’t you think?
to answer both questions, yes. My grandma keeps paying the fees every year and signing up, but I STILL havn’t gotten my Sept. Cricket.
Phoenix,
I talked with Cricket’s (and Muse’s) publication director, Alice Letvin, at the magazine’s headquarters in Chicago. She says that if there is a continuing problem with delivery, you or your parents should get in touch with her directly. Her e-mail address is aletvin@caruspub.com. Hope this helps.
–Robert
Oops! Just now thae mailman came, and I got my Cricket! A month late, but thats ok. Thanks for the trouble, Mr. Administrator.
Phoenix,
I’d still send Ms. Letvin a complaint. If you’re getting issues a month late, the company should know about it. Other people may be in the same boat. If they get frustrated and cancel their subscriptons, that could mean trouble for Cricket, the publishing company, and ultimately Muse. So it’s better to make your voice heard rather than suffer in silence.
Phoenix’s answer raises another interesting question: who subscribes to the magazines you get? I suspect it’s largely a grandparent thing.
–Robert
national geographic forgot me and my freind for a month. it usually comes early in the month, but i still haven’t gotten that August issue. evil thingy
I get Cicada. It’s good. I haven’t checked out the website, though.
My grandmother got me a subscription to Muse 3 years ago, and I liked it alot. So I kept on getting it. My friend used to get Muse too, and his grandmother got it for him. It was kind of odd because both of us live in Austria. Now he is almost 16 so he gets National geographic.
I got Ladybug, Spider, Cricket and I think I’ll switch to Cicada one of these days….
As for Muse my grandaunt gave it to me. I’ve been getting it since January ’99. (she never bothered to renew the subscription though so now my parents renew it)
my mom used to get cricket waaaaaaay back in history, and i found a whole bunch in the basement and loved them but we never ended up getting a new subscription cuz we got muse instead. that’s ok though cuz koko+co are way cooler than the bugs in cricket (no offense, any bugs who happen to be reading this)