The AD's Office Interview: Zine Publishers: Celeste, Seah, Jo Ann McCoy, Sugar Rush, Aqualegia, and Lynda

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Title:	The AD's Office Interview: Zine Publishers: Celeste, Seah, Jo Ann McCoy, Sugar Rush, Aqualegia, and Lynda
Interviewer:	uncredited
Interviewee:	Celeste, Seah, Jo Ann McCoy, Sugar Rush (aka Nancy Nivling), Aqualegia, and Lynda,
Date(s):	January 16, 1999
Medium:	online
Fandom(s):	Zines
External Links:	introduction, Archived version part one, Archived version part two, Archived version
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The AD's Office Interview: Zine Publishers: Celeste, Seah, Jo Ann McCoy, Sugar Rush, Aqualegia, and Lynda is a chat.

It is part of a series. See The AD's Office Interviews.

Some Excerpts

I've been in fandom forever. My first slash fandom was also K/S--wasn't everybody's?

I've been in fandom since mid-60's firstly MUNCLE, then K/S, Battlestar Galacrica, A-Team, now XF. I been connected to publishing from early 80's. When we used manaul typewriter and stencils to prduce newsletters and zines.

"The Gift of an Enemy" is the very first slash zine I ever published.... Only genzines before that.

am currently in Sentinel fandom, and working jointly with Celeste on a new websites project, Fanzines.com... Well, hopefully if it catches on, It'll be a place to list both New and Used Zine for sales, Seek Zine Contributions, and post Zine Reviews.

Well, [Kirk/Spock] was the first slash fandom I can remember reading -- way back when I had to lie on my age statement to get them mail-order. <g>

The first slash I saw was Man from Uncle in late 60's.

I never really heard of men writing slash until the net became popular.

Legal issues are many and complex. When the C&D comes, you hide.... Legal issues... basically if it isn't worth their suing you, they will leave you alone. Legal is what you can get away with!

Now the internet is around - before that we had more stories than we could use in one zine.

And, frankly -- and this is a broad generalization -- but I do think the quality of fanfic has gone down in recent years.

The net is the best thing ever for getting zines sold, btw and for finding new talent

I don't really see [zines vs net] as a battle. The Net is bringing in many new authors, and although many of them are still only beginners, it takes time. I do expect better quality from zines, and thats one of the reasons I'm willing to pay for them.

Yes, I have loads of scanned cartoons for my next zine - I never saw the artwork, just got the images in my e-mail and can drop them right in to the master.

Interesting--I bought a Star Trek magazine that was Japanese manga some years ago. The editor bragged that Americans didn't have fanzines like the Japanese did. I figured we just hid ours better.

LOCs: There was a time when readers would send letters to the editor remarking upon the zine as a whole and individual stories within. These days the net, e-mail, and listservs seem to have supplanted the inclination. Unfortunately.