LionHeart Distribution
You may be looking for the Beauty and the Beast zine, Lionheart.
| Zine Publisher | |
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| Name: | LionHeart Distribution |
| Contact: | Hindman |
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| Fandoms: | multifandom |
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| URL: | Website link left off per publisher's request |
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LionHeart Distribution was a fanzine agent/distributor. It was formed in 2001 to help other fanzine publishers sell their fanzines on the web as well as at conventions. LionHeart is also the distribution arm of Secret Pleasures Press which then became Devious Developments Press in 2003[1] when it merged with Angel Wings Press.
It has sold fanzines for a wide variety of publishers such as AllGen Press, AMC Press, Ancient's Gate, DE Press, Grey Cloud, ImPRESS Books, Live Oak Manor Press, OneChickSlashin, Purgatory Press, Red Shirt Press, Requiem Publications, Secret Pleasures Press, Solo Press, Twisted Tsister, and Yadda Press.
In 2005, LionHeart took a break from selling fanzines in response to two C&D notices it received.
Following the receipt of a C&D letter, Lionheart Distribution have pulled their UNCLE zines from sale - bad news for slash fans since they'd not only been publishing new zines but also helping fans get hold of copies of zines in the classic series 'We Have Each Other' and 'Classified Affairs'. ....The fact that only LHD has received a C&D means that someone either turned them in, Warner found them online (which isn't a feat), or something produced or distributed by LHD fell into the wrong hands. There's no telling which property Warner was really out to protect when they sent LHD the C&D, as it was a blanket C&D for Warner properties, not a MFU-specific C&D. [2]
Unfortunately, [some MUNCLE fanzines] aren't being distributed any more because Warner Bros has sent out Cease and Desist letters to LionHeart Distribution."[3]
After an orderly transition, LionHeart focused on agenting original fiction. LionHeart resumed carrying some titles for former clients and added some new, doing mostly mail order.
Among fannish circles, LionHeart is occasionally referred to as "Lionheart Press" which, according to the distributor is a misnomer as they do not publish, only distribute fanzines.
LionHeart ceased operating as distributor or mail fulfillment November 30, 2012.
Example Zines
- Everybody Dies
- All or Nothing
- To Rent a Spy
- Bad Science (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea zine)
- Dante (Sentinel and Original Slash zine)
- Primal Instincts (X-Men zine)
- Sacrifices and Miracles
- Everything's Jake
- Arkady
- Deal With the Devil
- Three of Hearts (Company Business zine)
- We Gather Together
- Fenfaer
- The Diary Series
- The Darkest Evening
- Battlefields of Slash.
- Points of Departure
- Collected by Dementor Delta
- Gold Tinted Spectacles
- Melethryn
- Helm's Deep
References
- ^ Devious Developments Press; LionHeart/Secret Pleasures; Angel Wings.
- ^ A sad day for UNCLE slash fandom dated April 9th, 2005; archived version.
- ^ Lyrebird Notice (April 2005)