Editing The Pen Addict 313/transcript (section)

== Blackwing History ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' So a funny little anecdote you reminded me of talking about Field Notes. So Knock at one time bought directly from Blackwing or whatever the mothership brand is called, you know, on a cow seat or whatever. Because we gave away some of the Palomino pencils in the past. So we've always been on their retailers list. Well, you know how, like, Field Notes is super secretive about anyone getting any information before they officially release it on the new edition.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Blackwing in the past would always, about a week beforehand, tell the retailers what the edition was. So, like, the retailers would know it before the public. Like, yeah. And it was funny with the last one, the Exquisite Corpse, the 54, the pink one. Like, the moment I got that email, I was like, oh, man, these look great. And I couldn't say anything about it. You know, I mean, you just don't do that. And then I saw things around the internet saying, like, it leaked immediately. So this time was the first time that they did not do that. They sent out an email. It's coming. You should order it. And we're not telling you what it is until we release it publicly. So I thought that was a funny little side note, little inside baseball thing. It was kind of, it was pretty funny. So don't look for those early anymore because people can't keep their mouths shut.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So the opposite of keeping your mouth shut is writing things down and sharing those words with other people, Myke. And one of my favorite parts of being in this community is seeing cool things like Plumbago, the zine behind, that the guys behind Erasable have created, mainly Andy Wellflee. And this time he's getting editing assistance from Harry Marks. And issue number four is up for pre-order. So if you like all the pencil talk we just had, this is something you want to look at if you're, if you haven't noticed this before. So there's all kinds of cool articles. I thoroughly enjoy every issue I get. The quality is amazing. The writing and artwork is fun and fascinating. You know, Ana did the cover of this issue number four, the creative nonfiction memoir issue. Yep. I'm a massive failure. I just wanted to go on record as that. They asked me to write a piece for that and I could not get it done in time. So I have apologized to Andy and Harry for letting them down.

'''Myke Hurley:''' This is, this is a good apology though.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Well, I would, even if I wasn't invited to contribute, I'd promote the heck out of it because this is what, this is one of those things when I get it in the, in the mailbox, I can't wait to rip it open and see it. And every issue, there's only been three so far, the quality has gone through the roof. Not that it was ever bad, but my goodness, they do such a good job putting this together. So, and they don't do this to make money. You know, they, they sell these to continue to make these and to donate proceeds to various charities. This time, the National Immigrant Law Center, which is a very important hot topic, hot button topic in the U.S. right now. So they're doing good things and they're good people behind it. And I just love cracking this open when I, when I get it in the mail. So pre-orders are out now. It's eight bucks if you'd get the, the pre-order. So take a look. We'll have a link in the show notes.