Columnists

- A magazine may have columnists.…These are writers with a familiar voice…or a regular topic who appear in every issue.…When you have more than one columnist,…like Ink magazine does,…you want to use identical layouts for all of them.…Columnists are not necessarily front of the book…and they're not necessarily together.…One can be front, another back,…in which case, having the same look is even more important.…A variation of the columnist…will be a regular column to which you invite…a different guest writer each issue,…as Time magazine does with its essay page.…

Another variation, also in Time magazine,…is the recurring interview feature.…I assume that a regular ghost writer handles these.…Both variants can appear in the front…or the back of the magazine.…