The Crystal Rose (Beauty and the Beast newsletter)

Zine
Title:	The Crystal Rose
Publisher:	The Crystal Rose, a fan club
Editor(s):	JoAnn Grant, Vicki Thomas, Sandy P. Chandler, Sandy C. Chandler
Type:
Date(s):	1990-at least 1994
Frequency:	bi-monthly
Medium:	print
Fandom:	Beauty and the Beast (TV)
Language:	English
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The Crystal Rose is a Beauty and the Beast (TV) fan club newsletter.

It came out every two months.

1991 flyer

a 1993 "updated logo"

It was the winner of a 1991 Crystalline Rose Award for Best Fan Group Publication.

Sister Zine

Some of the fiction in these newsletters were printed in The Crystal Rose Collection.

Some 1993 Comments

On the third anniversary of the newsletter, the editors had a bit of fun with a imagined phone call, a fictional voice-over by Rod Serling, and then a brief thank you:

[phone call transcript snipped]

Suddenly, a voice sounding remarkably like Rod Sterling from The Twilight Zone is heard: ""JoAnn and Vicki, two women fighting a desperate battle to balance marriages, kids, grandkids, jobs, and life in general while pursuing their mutual passion. These two women combined with a frustrated writer and a overly modest artist make up the staff of THE CRYSTAL ROSE. A newsletter, a club, an alliance of friends caught forever in a dream, in a zone known as .. . 'Beauty and the Beast' fandom . Somewhere between reality and the twilight zone.

All kidding aside, JoAnn, Vicki, and Chandler, it's been a wonderfully enlightening three years.

Another thank you from 1993, this one from Vicki and JoAnn:

Thank you, Sandy and Chandler, for this wonderful tribute. We do, at times, feel we ARE in the TWILIGHT ZONE! It has been a wonderful three years and we are looking forward to the next year with great anticipation. You two have spent so many hours helping us to keep this "family" alive and we will forever be grateful. We have come a long way, baby! Our first newsletter was two pages with no art, a few mistakes and bad copies. We had a name change (from THE CRYSAL ROSE to THE CRYSTAL ROSE, our first major mistake) to a newsletter we publish with great pride. Our members continue to participate in the newsletter, making it very personal, homey and friendly.

May we all continue to share the light and love of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST!