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4M Press
| Zine Publisher | |
|---|---|
| Name: | 4M Press |
| Contact: | Marnie |
| Type: | zine publisher |
| Fandoms: | Blake's 7, multimedia |
| Status: | inactive |
| Other: | |
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4M Press was a zine publisher created by Marnie.
Zines
- Avon, Anyone? (Blake's 7) (1986)
- Vila, Please! (Blake's 7)
- I Don't Drink... Wine (gen, adult het and slash multi-media zine devoted to vampirism) (1989)
- two 1989 proposed zines that did not make it off the ground were "Gimme Blake!" and "Avon and Vila, Partners in..."
Fan Comments
Editors do put effort into producing a zine, and run all the financial risks; obviously an editor is entitled to make sure she gets all her costs back (including usage of her computer, her printer, and additional letters and phone calls), and — within reason - to make enough of a profit to have seed money for the next zine. All I said was that I didn't think it was fair for an editor to make enough money to get to a convention on the profits of her zines; that does strike me as profiteering off the writers. If an editor is going to treat producing a zine as a commercial proposition, she should pay the writers a royalty on the sales. The Japanese system sounds good, circle production of a zine, except that this does require having enough local slash fans to make it work, (4-M Press, the only example I can think of this, produced a perfectly dreadful series of zines, and still hold the record as the worst treatment I ever had from a fanzine editor; I was never told they'd accepted my story, though I sent two letters and a postcard Squiring what had happened, and I got a contributor's copy out of the second printrun — the first I heard that my story had actually been accepted was when I got a letter from a friend in the US telling me that my story had been the best in the zine. And unfortunately, when I got the zine, I agreed.)
[...]
... when I get a contributor's copy, I'd rather have a good zine than a drecky one; well put together, good selection of well-written & well-edited stories... Put all that in the balance against the merely intellectual repulsion at the thought of someone getting to go to a con which I can't afford to go to, on the back of a story I wrote, and well, it does tip the balance. [1]
References
- ^ from J C in Strange Bedfellows APA #5 (May 1994)