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About Get Lost Magazine
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Get Lost Magazine, first launched in April of 1999, is an award-winning monthly publication of top-notch travel, adventure, natural history and lifestyle articles. The magazine is updated regularly with the latest stories, and the backlog of articles can be accessed through a search engine.
Our departments include
| Editorial | Editor in Chief Leslie Strom publishes a front page editorial monthly, dealing with life in general, trips, and the life of the magazine. |
| Features | Featured articles from all over the world, on a wide range of travel, natural history and adventure topics. |
| Dumb-Ass Trips | Leslie Strom presents personal travel stories from the front lines of absurd destinations. |
| McBee's Travels | Dave McBee investigates the world of nature in a regular column |
| The Casual Cook | Martha Strom and guest columnists talk about food, cooking, relationships with food, and recipes and eating. And food. (Also see her spin-off site, CasualCook.com) |
| Reviews (and Occasional Mockery) | Equipment, sevices, and everything else is fair game. Also, books that changed our lives, but probably not Oprah's. |
| Letters | Our readers talk back and there's nothing we can do to stop them. |
| Monthly Almanac | A calendar of events social, astronomical, fiscal, cultural and weird. |
| Archive | Back issues, past cover snapshots, and an illustrated index by author makes past articles available |
Our publication office is in Seattle, Washington. Our monthly publication and operations budget is nearly zero, thanks to low-tech standards, volunteers and slave labor. We strongly model our image after the Pufferfish, successfully resembling a very large operation using little more than electrons, bravado, and hot air. We are successfully making the transition to being a legitimately large and solvent Pufferfish through advertising revenue, affiliate programs, syndicated articles, and informational products.
Get Lost Magazine runs on contributions, extorted services, and really cheap staff benefits like donuts and mawkish praise, so we do not yet pay for pictures and stories. We do try to provide exceptional exposure to our contributors' work, with award-winning format and layout and a listing in the contributors' index. Exposure in Get Lost Magazine has helped build many a writer's career. We also have gobs of fun. We're developing a secret handshake as well.
We encourage stories from around the world, preferring articles under 1000 words, text pasted into email. Word files are also fine. Pictures should be jpg or gif formats.
The author retains all rights and ownership to his or her original work, but Get Lost Magazine publishes only original and previously unpublished (in any form, including on the web) stories and illustrations. We're both cheap and choosy.
We accept sidebar ads from non-profit organizations to be placed on the front page and the letters page, and paying ads will be prominently placed on the main page. (For a really generous sponsor we may have a parade.) And Google AdSense has our undying love.
Get Lost Magazine participates in affiliate programs via Linkshare and Commission Junction.
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