Kaleidoscope (Star Trek: TOS club zine)

Zine
Title:	Kaleidoscope
Publisher:	William Shatner Fellowship
Editor(s):	Beth Carlson, Vel Jaeger & Sandra Gent
Date(s):	1986
Series?:
Medium:	print
Genre:	gen
Fandom:	Star Trek: TOS
Language:	English
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Kaleidoscope is a gen Star Trek: TOS fiction 195-page anthology published by the William Shatner Fellowship.

The Submission Request

KALEIDOSCOPE is the working title of our upcoming club zine. It will contain stories, art, verse, etcetera., not just using the characters from Hooker and Trek, but covering any character Bill has ever played in any media. We already have a couple of Trek stories, a Hooker piece, and the promise of a Barbary Coast story, so how about digging out that story you scribbled out the night you came home from seeing The Kingdom of the Spiders, or that scene-between-scenes from some other favorite piece.

We also need artwork, both to illustrate stories, and art that stands on its own. If you would like to illustrate something for the zine, please send us a Xerox of your artwork as an ex- ample of your style. Do not send any original artwork without being asked to. If you are asked to send artwork for the zine, your work will be returned. No artwork will be returned without a self-addressed-stamped envelope of the appropriate size. If you want to send art only, please send a Xerox of the piece first. We are trying to do everything as simply as possible and this method will limit the number of things we have to return.

To submit written work, please send a typed, double-spaced, clean copy of your story or verse. (If you don't type, print it in ink.) Make sure that you keep a copy; the post office is notorious for losing only copies--they seem to sniff them out. If yo~ want your copy back, send a return envelope of the appropriate size with the right postage. The zine will be PG rated (we have some pretty young readers out there), so keep that in mind when you're writing. If your story is already written, and you're not sure if it is suitable, send us a copy for our judgement on it--if may be fine, or we may be able to work on it with you to tone it down.

We are looking forward to hearing from those of our members who are talented in the areas of writing and art. Please brave it out and send us something. Let's share our enjoyment of the characters Bill has given us over the years.

Please be patient if you haven't heard whether or not we're using your material for the club zine. We're reading and sorting through the submissions as quickly as possible. Remember, your submissions are going to Helen and Jane first, and then being routed to each of the editors in turn.

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You will be receiving a card telling you that your submission has been received--if you haven't already. If you're still considering sending something in, please include a self-addressed stamped postcard. That will definitely speed things along. Thanks!

We are beginning to weed things out now, but we want the best 15 or 20 things, not necessarily the first 15 or 20 things. So, if you haven't heard anything negative yet, that's a good sign.

Your submission is still in the running. It's just going to take time. In the meantime, we are still taking short submissions

and submissions that are not Trek or Hooker oriented. So far, we have submissions about Bill's parts in: "The Twilight Zone"- "Alfred Hitchcock Presents", "The Babysitter", "Mork and Mindy" and "Alexander" among others. And, of course, we have "Star Trek" and "Hooker" pieces. Pullout Bill's list of credits and put on your thinking caps. We know there are more submissions opt there!