Welcome to our press kit!
Mission
Quail Bell Magazine is a multimedia publication that seeks to explore the imaginary, the nostalgic, and the otherworldly through the highest quality creative and journalistic content. This includes culture, commentary, original literature, and more. Owned and operated by the socially-minded media company, Quail Bell Press & Productions, Quail Bell Magazine also spearheads non-profit projects in anthropology, history, and community arts. All in all, Quail Bell embraces folklore in all its forms.
History
After spending her entire childhood and adolescence writing, drawing, and creating in various senses of the word, Christine Stoddard decided to realize her dream of starting a magazine.
The first professional quality magazine she established was Comicality. Virginia Commonwealth University’s Student Media Commission had awarded Christine and her then-classmate Jeremy Clemmons a grant to make a campus humor & sequential arts magazine. Shortly thereafter, Christine appointed David Fuchs as her co-editor, whereas Jeremy became Comicality’s staff writer. Under the guidance of Gregory O. Weatherford and Mark Jeffries, Christine and David produced a 42-page, full-color, 10'' x 12'' comics magazine.
As pleased as Christine was about winning the grant, she still wanted to establish a magazine on her own, outside of a university setting. So, in December 2009, Christine registered the domain name for QuailBellMagazine.com not long after founding her company, Quail Bell Press & Productions, LLC., in Richmond, VA.
Christine immediately began pooling the talent of her friends and classmates at VCU and Grinnell College. She also called upon people she had met at Yorktown High School. Then Christine started posting Craigslist ads, Ed2010.com announcements, and flyers in Richmond, VA and Washington, D.C.
By May 15, 2010--thanks to the help of David Fuchs, Jeremy Clemmons, Amy Cheong, Michelle Labbé, Ani Mikaelian, Adrienne Kerr, Bolashade Hanson, Maggie Craig, Daniel Wikey, Samantha Highfill and Brittany Fulk--QuailBellMagazine.com went live. Yet the magazine became a much more serious endeavor in February 2011, after Christine re-launched the website and modified her staff to compensate for those who had graduated and moved.
By May 2011, Christine repeated the process and further elevated the magazine’s status with recognition from the likes of Doe Deere, Mediaeval Baebes, Voltaire, David Malki!, Dirty Richmond, Virginia Living Magazine, and others. In October 2011, Style Weekly Magazine named Christine one of Richmond, VA's "Top 40 Under 40" for her accomplishments in art and journalism, but most notably Quail Bell.
Christine and her dedicated staff are currently constantly in the process of further improving the publication and planning for its print release.
Readership
College-educated, young adult females (18-35) from the United States and the United Kingdom make up most of our readership. Many of these ladies have studied, or are studying, English, Art, Journalism, and Anthropology. Of our American readers, many of them come from the East Coast, particularly the Mid-Atlantic. Often they are students or alumni of colleges and universities located in or around New York, Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. Our British readers tend to come from London and Scotland. We typically earn 18,000-25,000 page views a month, but those numbers are steadily growing!
Subscriptions
Read all about our subscription options here. Download the special edition of our 'zine, Quail Bell Express, here.
Social Media
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Beyond the Page
Quail Bell is more than a unique reading experience; it's a whole lifestyle that embraces the imaginary, the nostalgic, and the otherworldly. Find us in galleries, bookstores, libraries, restaurants, schools--even on the street!
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Advertising
Whether you own a small to medium-sized business or work for yourself, we'd love for you to advertise your products and services. Non-profit organizations receive a 20% discount.
Contact Us
Compliments, inquiries, complaints…we want to know!
To contact Executive Editor Christine Stoddard: cstoddard@quailbellmagazine.com
To subscribe to Quail Bell Express: subscriptions@quailbellmagazine.com
To submit art, writing, and media for review: submissions@quailbellmagazine.com
To ask about advertising or place an ad: advertising@quailbellmagazine.com
To address all other matters: inquiries@quailbellmagazine.com
Send all snail mail to: Quail Bell Magazine, c/o Christine Stoddard, P.O. Box 4844, Richmond, VA 23220. Please make out all checks to "Christine Stoddard."
