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Susquehanna University
TJ Heffers, Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania
Editing and Publishing Unedited Interview
with Janet Kuypers, founder of Scars Publications and Editor in Chief of cc&d magazine
1. Could you give me a brief history of Children, Churches and Daddies? What roots has it sprung from? Where do you think it’s going?
When I received sample issues to read and learn from after I first started submitting writing to magazines for publication, I saw that a lot of the editors were published in these same sample magazines. Without knowing what it would entail, I decided that if editors got published (and not knowing any magazines that needed and editor), I could just start a magazine and become an editor.
Starting Scars Publications with the release of my first book (titled “Hope Chest in he Attic”), I then listed cc&d in as many journals as I could to get the word out in the literary community. However, when it first started off cc&d did not have many contributors. But by 1995 cc&d, as a 5.5" x 8.5" saddle-stitched magazine (which started on the Internet in 1995 as well) had so many accepted writings from contributors that it was released every two weeks. 1995 was also the beginning of annual poetry and prose collection books from cc&d (as we were looking for ways to expand the reach of cc&d, and also expand work from Scars Publications). So in 1996, cc&d changed formats (and Internet addresses, from a shout.net internet address to an aol Internet address) from saddle-stitched journals to 100+ page 8.5" x 11" brad fastened issues, and then contained not only poetry and prose sections, but also news, (plus PETA and political news) and philosophy.
1999 issues were all released as a giant collection book, and occasional issues (many times Internet only, at the current