"An Initiation into Journal Editing"
My presentation will be an informal discussion of the decisions and considerations I encountered when I began editing Victorian Periodicals Review. I inherited an Editorial Board with a few members who had not been active in our organization for several years and others who had not been called upon to serve in their official capacity. I had to reevaluate what an editorial board should be, and how much I wanted to depend on them. As a new editor, I also inherited a few articles I would rather not have published and a serious backlog of book reviews, including about a dozen missing reviews that were later found on a disc in the former book reviewer's office. The process of establishing my editorial routine took over a year.
Kathryn R. Ledbetter, Texas State Univ.
