Whaddya Mean I'm Not a Good Kisser?

Zine
Title:	Whaddya Mean I'm Not a Good Kisser?
Publisher:	Gunther Industries
Editor(s):	Carol Davis and Merle Decker
Date(s):	1987
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Medium:	print
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Fandom:	Starsky and Hutch
Language:	English
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Whaddya Mean I'm Not a Good Kisser? is a slash 45-page Starsky and Hutch anthology. It contains no interior art.

It was advertised as a "short story S/H anthology dealing with Starsky & Hutch's first kiss. This is an unedited, just-for-fun one-shot. Age statement required."

A fan in 1999 mentioned this zine on a mailing list: "Next to Sweet Revenge, the "good kisser" scenario has inspired more stories than any other I can think of. In fact, there was even a whole mini-zine called "What D'ya Mean I'm Not A Good Kisser" in which each story took off from this scene.

Regarding Feedback

In early 1990, one of the editors of this zine wrote of feedback, the lack of it, and of a proposed zine that ended up not making it off the ground:

Yes, those who create, no matter how insignificant others believe the creation to be, like a little feedback. In the case of fandom's response to said creations we're talking about LOCs. No, I am not going to scream and shout; I am just as guilty as the next person when it comes to not sitting down and writing to a zine ed. Merle and I got no LOCs on 'Good Kisser', nor did we expect any. When I got promises from people at Zebra that they would send LOCs for SHADOWPLAY, my natural instinct was not to hold my breath. Luckily, I didn't. I will not pretend that no LOCs trickled in, we did get 5. I suppose we should be thrilled. Now, in case no one knows what happens to LOCs when a zine editor gets them — this is the accepted route. They are xeroxed and passed on to the contributors (unless there is a notation that the LOCer wishes otherwise). They don't even have to be signed. The reason LOCs are important is not so much the fact that the editors see that fandom is completely indifferent to their work if they don't get any, but it is usually the only way the authors get any feel for what those reading their pieces thought about them. How else can they judge what people are interested in reading? How will they know if they're on the right track? Why the hell should they bother to continue writing if no one cares? Will there be a SHADOWPLAY 2? I doubt it. We're doing' Flesh Wound' not only for the fun of it, (there isn't that much work involved in an unedited publication aside from typing), but we're hoping to make up some of the money that we lost in our larger zine. Profit? I dare anyone to find one. Speaking of 'What Do You Mean It's Only a Flesh Wound', we have three stories so far. Our deadline is the Ides of March. If you'd like to see this thing published, some of you might think of submitting some stories. We've badgered all the folks in our immediate area and gotten promises, (and that's as good as the story in hand), but we'd like to hear from some of you other authors out there. In case anyone missed our ad in SNITCH, this is going to be another FRIENZ size, unedited goodie. Will you get to read an LOC on your work? Well, I won't promise a thing.

Contents

• Last New Year's Didn't Count by Lucy Cribb Walk, poem (1)
• Fall Into the Gap by Molly D. Brown (2)
• Double Dip by Merle Decker (3)
• Heart of the Sunrise by Ellen Morris (6)
• First Kiss by Ima Fool (8)
• I Hear Music by Katherine Robertson (10)
• Do You Believe in Magic by Carol Davies (14)
• Cowboys Don't Kiss by Jeannette Paris (17)
• It's the Thought That Counts by Jo Elliot (21)
• The Box by Kimberly Sara Huntington, poem (25)
• The First by April Valentine (30)
• Sentinel by Debra Hicks (33)
• Truth or Dare by Ellen Morris (35)
• Phantasms by Theresa DeVaux (37)
• Tell Me Something I Don’t Know by J. Elizabeth Ginty (41)
• This Kiss by Pat Massie, poem (45)