I’ve finally got my pop culture magazine ready for the big time. It’s titled Level One.

Currently, it’s only 24 pages, but future issues should grow to 32 pages. The first issue has had the spam-free preview printed, which I’ve dished out to retailers and advertisers. If all goes well, it’ll be in a few select stores around the country next week. If things don’t go well, it’ll be the week after.

I’m pretty excited about it all, but it’s been a hard slog to get it where it is today — mostly because of relying on other people to write articles. Not that what I’ve got isn’t good, but last week I sat around every night wondering if anyone was going to hand in anything. I got so paranoid (even though I gave them a deadline of Sunday night) that I didn’t think it was going to happen.

But it certainly is happening….