Marzipan & Kisses

Zine
Title:	Marzipan & Kisses
Publisher:	Bound in Leather Press (DDF)
Editor(s):	Jean C. & Karen B. (all issues except #17, which was edited by Lucy Procter)
Type:	letterzine
Date(s):	1984-2001
Frequency:
Medium:	print
Fandom:	Dorothy Dunnett
Language:	English
External Links:	cited here, Wayback link
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Marzipan & Kisses is a Dorothy Dunnett letterzine published in the United States and edited by Jean C. and Karen B. The first issue was published in January 1984. Its successor is Whispering Gallery, which is published in the UK.

Marzipan & Kisses was typed and photocopied by hand.

Description

A letterzine devoted to the Lymond Chronicle and other works by Dorothy Dunnett. M&K will be published bi-monthly at $2.00 an issue after the premiere January '84 issue. Contributions of letters, artwork, research, translations, questions, etc. are cheerfully encouraged!

Described in the Mainstream Press

"Marzipan & Kisses" was mentioned in an article in The Baltimore Sun:

...[Dunnett] remains baffled by the degree of devotion her work inspires. The most astonishing thing, she says, was the avalanche of mail she began to get -- nearly 2,000 letters a month. At first she tried to correspond with everyone, but she quickly learned that if she answered all her mail, she would not have time to do any writing.

She was rescued by a "letterzine," a fan periodical in which fans can communicate with other fans and Dunnett can occasionally address them.

The 'zine, called Marzipan & Kisses, is a quarterly that goes to 130 U.S. and Canadian readers, and about 200 in Britain and Europe.... "Every time you read [Dunnett's books], you find something new," says letterzine editor Karen Brandl [address redacted] "And the writing is brilliant. These are romances in the true sense of the word."

Issue 1

cover of issue #1

January 1984, reprinted August 1997, contains 24 pages

• editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
• A Lymond Chronology - timeline with notes
• The Adventures of a Blond Gentleman, as Recorded by a Writer named Dorothy (reference to Lord Peter Wimsey)
• letters by Beth Nugteren, Terri Beckett, Jean Chun, Barbara Tennison, Jody Nye, Karen Brandl, Barbara Green Deer, Sonja Vathjunker, Tabby Davis, and Jean Clissold

Issue 2

cover of issue #2

March 1984, reprinted August 1997, contains 20 pages

• editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
• Market Place in Tsarhorod (Song of Byda) (poem) from Mrs Dunnett
• The Game of Tarocco
• Horoscope of Francis Crawford Lymond and Sevigny, as supplied to Dorothy Dunnett by a professional astrologer
• letters by Aleck Campion, Barbara Green Deer, Beth Nugteren, Jean Clissold, Terri Beckett, Barbara Tennison, Sonja Vathjunker, Sue-Anne Hartwick, Penny Warren, and Karen Brandl

Issue 3

cover of issue #3

May 1984, contains 24 pages

• editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
• Four part harmony score of "Josiant vocis (= Jouyssance vous donneray)" by Claudin de Sermisy
• Publicity release from Century Publishing and review of The Game of Kings and Queens' Play
• Short extracts concerning Scorpio from Saturn Signs by Michael Lutin
• Paragraph concerning Margaret Lennox from Costume and Fashion by Herbert Norris
• letters by Penny Warren, Debra R Borys, Barbara Tennison, Sonja Vathjunker, Meg Thompson, Natassa Andritsou, Tabby Davis, Sandy J McKay, Aleck Campion, Ellen Kushner, Sue-Anne Hartwick, Terri Beckett, Gael Scott, and Myra Morales

Issue 4

cover of issue #4

July 1984, reprinted April 1998, contains 42 pages

• editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
• Concerning one Thomas Crawford
• Extract from "Her Rob Ryall: the Costume of Mary of Guise" by Rosalind K Marshall (Costume, #12 1978, The Journal of the Costume Society)
• Questions about the Lymond Chronicles from "Mastermind" TV quiz show, Spring 1984, supplied by Dorothy Dunnett
• letters by Mrs Alastair Dunnett, Barbara Green Deer, Marjorie J Johnson, Penny Warren, Bev Clark, Debra Borys, Terri Beckett, Wanda Lybarger, Tabby Davis, Liz Teis, Jean Clissold, Susan Sizemore, Sue-Anne Hartwick, Meg Thompson, Gael Scott, Natassa Andritsou, Aleck Campion, and Barbara Tennison

Issue 5

cover of issue #5

September 1984, reprinted May 1998, contains 30 pages

• editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
• Answers to Mastermind quiz questions in previous issue
• letters

Issue 6

November 1984, 24 pages

cover of issue #6

• editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
• The Scotts and Kerrs at Work and Play - Beth Nachison
• The Lymond Chronicles and the Tarot - Liz Teis
• letters

Issue 7

January 1985, 12 pages

cover of issue #7

• editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
• The Knights of St John: a very brief history - Terri Beckett
• letters

Issue 8

March 1985, 12 pages

cover of issue #8

• editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
• letters

Issue 9

May 1995, reprinted August 1998, 30 pages

cover of issue #9

• editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
• 1963 "Cast List" for Game of Kings Film - Cheshire Frager
• "Prince Heathen" ballad text from The English and Scottish Popular Ballads by Francis James Child (ed), 1965
• Three poems by Thomas Wyatt - Liz Teis
• letters

Issue 10

July 1985, 32 pages

cover of issue #10

• editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
• Notes on "The Crawford Family", excerpt from The Clans and Tartans of Scotland by Robert Bain, rev 1946
• The Lament of the Border Widow, supposedly written of a reiver hanged at his own door 1529
• letters

Issue 11

cover of issue #11

October 1985, reprinted December 1998, 30 pages

• editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
• Crawford Family Tree - Stephanie Turnbole
• letters

Issue 12

cover of issue #12

January 1986, reprinted February 1999, 26 pages

• editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
• Familial arms descriptions from Burke's General Armoury of 1884
• Ballade Des Dames Du Temps Jadis by François Villon, with translation into 17th century English
• letters

Issue 13

cover of issue #13

May 1986, reprinted April 1999, 54 pages

• editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
• Ballad of the Dead Women - Deb Laymon
• Master "cast list" for the Lymond Chronicles - Stephanie Turnbole
• Political supplement to Barbara Green Deer's Chronology - Myra Morales
• letters

Issue 14

cover of issue #14

August 1986, reprinted January 1998, 14 pages

• editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
• letters

Issue 15

cover of issue #15

January 1987, reprinted February 1998, 28 pages

• editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
• PiF chess game diagrams - Marguerite Krause
• Brief chronology of Lymond's life - Lillian Armstrong
• letters

Issue 16

cover of issue #16

March 1987, reprinted August 1997, 16 pages

• editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
• letters

Issue 17

July 1987, 20 pages

cover of issue #17

• editor: Lucy Procter
• letters

Issue 18/19

cover of issue #18/19

November 1987, 46 pages

• editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
• Dorothy Dunnett Biography Data
• The World of Suleyman the Magnificent by Merle Severy (condensed from National Geographic November 1987)
• Various reviews and plot summary of Niccolò Rising
• Article on the Knight Crusaders of Malta
• An Author of Substance: Dorothy Dunnett by Maryhelen Clague (from The Romantic Times, Summer 1986)
• letters

Issue 20

cover of issue #20

April 1988, 36 pages

• editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
• The Rose Cavaliers - by Dorothy Dunnett, June 1987
• Various accounts of lunch with Dorothy Dunnett, a visit to her house and the presentation to her of a silver rosebush
• letters

Issue 21

April 1988, 16 pages

cover of issue #21

• editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
• letters

Issue 22

August 1988, 40 pages

cover of issue #22

• editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
• Obituary - Stephanie Turnbole
• Master "cast list" for the Lymond Chronicles, contd
• Bruges travel diary - (contributor's name illegible)
• letters

Issue 23

cover of issue #23

January 1989, 20 pages

• editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
• Macbeth Reconsidered by Stanton Siederovitch (reproduced from the Discovery Channel magazine)
• The Spring of the Ram review by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
• letters

Issue 24

cover of issue #24

May 1989, 22 pages

• editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
• Chapter from The Navigations Into Turkie by Nicolas de Nicolay, London, 1585 - modern translation by Elizabeth Holden
• letters

Issue 25

cover issue #25

September 1989, 28 pages

• editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
• Dorothy Dunnett, announcing 1990 Edinburgh Convention
• Family trees of royal houses of Savoy, Burgundy, Scotland, Brittany
• Elizabeth Casciani meets one of Scotland's busiest and most successful novelists
• letters

Issue 26

cover of issue #26

• January 1990, 22 pages
• editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
• Penguin Books news release concerning The Spring of the Ram
• letters

Issue 27

April 1990, 34 pages

cover of issue #27

• editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
• Quiz set by Dorothy Dunnett for delegates at the Edinburgh convention
• Prestonfield House menu for the Dorothy Dunnett convention
• University of Edinburgh dinner menu 31 March 1990 (in Latin)
• Pilgrimage to unlikely shrine by Anne Kiggell (The Times, 3 April 1990)
• Edinburgh Renaissance Band programme for the dinner on 31 March 1990
• letters

Issue 28

cover of issue #28

July 1990, 40 pages

• editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
• A Gathering of the Fans by Jan Fairley - The Independent, 13 April 1990
• How Dorothy Does It by Alan Taylor - The Observer Scotland, 25 March 1990
• Mystery of the Missing Criticism by Keith Brace - The Birmingham Post, 7 April 1990
• Answers to previous issue's quiz
• letters

Issue 29

October 1990, 36 pages

cover of issue #29

• editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
• The Dunnett Novels: readings by an acolyte - Judith Wilt
• letters

Issue 30

cover of issue #30

• January 1991, 24 pages
• editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
• Talk and Q&A given by Dorothy Dunnett at the Edinburgh Convention 20 March 1990 - transcribed by Nancy J Silberstein
• Answers (from Dorothy Dunnett) to three unanswered questions
• letters

Issue 31

• April 1991, 16 pages

cover of issue #31

• editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
• letters

Issue 32

• July 1991, 28 pages

cover of issue #32

• editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
• Dorothy Dunnett interviewed by Jennie Renton - from The Scottish Book Collector Issue 12, June/July 1989
• The Historical Novels of Dorothy Dunnett by Richard Dalby
• Dame Janet Beaton by Nancy Corkill
• letters