Teeny Gozer Production
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| Name: | Teeny Gozer Production |
| Contact: | Celeste Hotaling-Lyons |
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| Fandoms: | Due South, Sentinel, X-Files, Forever Knight |
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| URL: | WayBack Archive link to publisher's page |
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Teeny Gozer Production was a fanzine publisher that published Due South, Sentinel, X-Files fanzines in the 1980s and 1990s ending in 2000. They also ran the Operation Zine Rescue campaign and moderated the Newzines mailing list (a mailing list for announcing the publication of new fanzines). Their website featured fanzine reviews submitted by readers.[1]. Two of their fanzines won STIFfie Awards: Crossroads (a Sentinel zine) and The Gift of an Enemy (an X-Files zine). Forever Cat Stories (a Forever Knight charity zine) and My Parental Units Invaded The Earth And All I Got Was This Lousy Tee-Shirt (a parody/cross universe zine) were also Teeny Gozer Productions. These zines were edited, co-edited, and/or published by Celeste Hotaling-Lyons.
The logo is a small black-and-white photograph of a kitten, with the words "Kiss the Top of my Head!" above, and the words: (insert zine's name here) is a Teeny Gozer Production" underneath.
From their FAQ:
Q: Teeny Gozer Productions? What's that mean? A: Go watch Ghostbusters
Q: I've seen Ghostbusters. What's that got to do with this site? A: Well, Gozer was named after Gozer the Gozarian. Our Gozer is a small, but incredibly malevolent cat. We chose to name our fanzine operations after him for one reason or another.
Q: What's a fanzine? A: Why don't you go read our real FAQ? We spent an awful lot of time on it.
Q: We sent you our Fanzine announcement several times, and you still haven't posted it to the list. Why not? A: Odds are, if we're ignoring your fanzine announcement, its because we've looked it over and discovered you are selling a music fanzine. This website is for media fandom -- you know, TV, Movies, and occasionally book fandoms. But not music. You're in the wrong place, go look somewhere else.
Q: I sent you my zines to list on your site, why haven't you listed them? A: Well, we created this nice little automated site specifically so people could archive their own zines, and we really don't have the time to do it for you.
Q: Why would anyone want to buy a fanzine when there's all this free fanfiction on the web? A: If you don't want to buy a fanzine, then don't. But keep in mind 1) not everyone in the world has Internet access 2) Some people like to go for quality, over quantity, and 3) there's just an immaterial something to holding a bound zine in your hands.
Q: You're awfully snippy, you know that? A: Yup, fraid so.