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The Fan's Little Golden Guide to Throwing Your Own Con
| Zine | |
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| Title: | The Fan's Little Golden Guide to Throwing Your Own Con |
| Publisher: | Lori Chapek-Carleton (through T'Khutian Press) and the Star Trek Welcommittee |
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| Type: | |
| Date(s): | 1981 |
| Medium: | |
| Size: | 27 pages |
| Fandom: | Star Trek: TOS |
| Language: | English |
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| Click here for related articles on Fanlore. | |
The Fan's Little Golden Guide to Throwing Your Own Con is a Star Trek 27-page booklet that gave detailed advice on how to run a small con. It was written by Paula Smith, Sharon Ferraro-Short and T.J. Burnside. Lori Chapek-Carleton edited and published it. It has a number of small illos which are uncredited, but credited in a 1987 zine catalog as by Jean DeMott.
Some Sections
- A Convention Parable
- Five Lousy Reasons for Throwing a Con
- What is a Convention and What Types Are There?
- Should We Throw a Con? What Type?
- Art Show
- Masquerade
- samples of forms and ballots
Gallery
front cover
the zine contains many helpful, practical hints including these tidbits on how to hang art for the art show
back cover
