Right Down to the Belt!!
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| Title: | Right Down to the Belt!! |
| Publisher: | Noel Silva |
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| Date(s): | 1990 |
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| Fandom: | Professionals |
| Language: | English |
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Right Down to the Belt!! is a theme-zine, a 64-page Professionals circuit zine with all the stories incorporating the title words "right down to the belt".
The Series
The Theme Zines: (The Theme Zines are also collected in two Pros Theme Zine anthologies.)
- Across the Table (May 1991?)
- Coming from Behind (1992)
- In the Lift (October 1991?)
- Open All Night
- Over the Edge
- Right Down to the Belt!! (1990)
- Slippery When Wet (May 1993)
- Under the Tree (1992)
- Up Against the Wall (1989)
About
Again I wish to thank the writers who sent in stories for this issue. Also a BIG THANK YOU to Maureen, Alex, and Adrian for their artwork. As you know this is a FREE zine and should be passed on to others. If you would like covers to go with your copy, write to me. Noel Silva [address redacted]. Add a buck for postage back to you.
I want to say THANKS to all the wonderful PROS people who again made this year a happy one. It's great writing, talking, and seeing you all. I hope we have many more happy years together.
ENJOY. [1]
...it is not true that only trib copies were printed. Fifty copies were printed and forty were passed out at Zebracon 9 to friends of the contributors. Ten were sold and the money donated to the Pediatric Aids Foundation. Since the zine was deliberately produced to be given away, fifty was the most that the editor could afford to print. It was her way of returning something to fandom, the same reason all of us agreed to write a story for the zine. I have gotten a lot of friendship and enjoyment from Pros, and since Noel had this interesting theme, putting together a zine with the stories was a good way to do our part... I enjoy getting zines, and I do buy most Pros zines. It is nice to read a story that has been edited and has fewer typos than the library stories tend to, and the artwork is great. However, one of the greatest things about Pros fandom is that people can get stories without doing anything but asking. You only have to pay copy costs and you get lots and lots of stories. Sure I bitch about missing lines, bad grammar, typos, etc. but this writing is from my family and I love them, mistakes and all. Same goes for a free zine. Anyway, I hope I've made my point and that all the misconceptions are cleared up because I'm also giving everyone a warning! From the folks who brought you "Up Against the Wall," "Right Down to the Belt". This will again be a VERY small print run (actually xerox not print). It will again be FREE. And at least one copy will be given to the library. It should be available by the end of this year, 1990. So keep your eyes open for the library listings. Or talk to people at cons. Someone is likely to have a copy. [2]
Contents
- Ordinary, Everyday Things by Kris Brown (1)
- Lover's Quarrel by Elaine Holden (2)
- Turnabout: story by Noel Silva, written by Kris Brown (13)
- Getting Right Down To It by Shoshanna (38)
- Speaking in Tongues by Susan Douglass (43)
- Hors de Combat by Elara Hall (45)
- For Baby and Me aka Treasure (?) Island by Lily (59)
Reactions and Reviews
[Hors de Combat]: I have quite recently acquired some new (old) zines, including Right Down To The Belt, which is interesting in that it has a reasonably-well-written story about Bodie having shell-shock. [3]
References
- ^ from Noel, printed in the zine
- ^ from Cold Fish and Stale Chips #6
- ^ comment by jessebee at I am missing Pros in my flist, so... (2016)