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WARNING: FANDOM.
So. I was having lunch with Dee (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cupiscent) as our Young Adult writing class finished early, and I mentioned how I'd bound Draco Dormiens as an exercise in book binding, and had started with Stealing Harry, and how hard copies of fic are quite nice; and she talked about how a LOTRPS friend had made a zine, and I said how nice that was, and how that was our history man, that's where slash comes from, and then I said how nice it would be to put together a Harry Potter zine, and then I think the conversation got away from her and I blithered. She put up with it very good-naturedly.
Then this evening, after Editing, I met up with Steph and we went out for dinner, and I blithered at her about the zine idea, and she and I talked about it for a bit, and she's vaguely interested, too.
So here's what we're looking at right now. We're interested in putting out five issues, each one with a focus: Harry, Draco, Marauders, the Women, the Order (as it currently stands, anyway). Fiction would be new, i.e., unpublished, whether on LJ or on a website. Ideally I'd like to approach some BNFs and see if they're interested in submitting a story, and have the rest submitted by the fandom with the best selected by our elite judging panel, i.e., me, unlesscupiscent and notfudge want to lend a hand. I'm hoping they will. I'd also like to talk to an artist or two, at the very least for the cover, but possibly also for some interior illustrations. Just like Dee's friend's zine, we would own print and website publishing rights for, let's say a year, maybe a year and a half, after which all rights revert to the author. This is just so that these fics can't be read anywhere other than the zine for a bit, because otherwise the whole exercise is pointless.
I have some other ideas, but they're mostly design related, so not of much use to anyone else at this point in time. Anyone interested? I'll have further talks aboutcupiscent and notfudge, and we'll launch a website or something later (I'm already paying for the sodding domain, might as well do something with it), once all the details are finalised. We'll have submission requirements and cover sheets and that sort of thing. I'll dig out my old Visible Ink folder and have a look at publishing schedules and the like.
Basically I'd like to make a nice-looking zine, with the price being maybe about AU$5 (so we can get a swanky cover - this is about two cents American, I think), depending on printing costs. We cannot, of course, make any money from this, but I didn't make any money from Visible Ink last year either, and that was far more effort.
I'm really excited. What about you guys?
Edit: Oh, we were also thinking about having at least one essay per issue. It'll be great!
WARNING: FANDOM.
So. I was having lunch with Dee (
cupiscent) as our Young Adult writing class finished early, and I mentioned how I'd bound Draco Dormiens as an exercise in book binding, and had started with Stealing Harry, and how hard copies of fic are quite nice; and she talked about how a LOTRPS friend had made a zine, and I said how nice that was, and how that was our history man, that's where slash comes from, and then I said how nice it would be to put together a Harry Potter zine, and then I think the conversation got away from her and I blithered. She put up with it very good-naturedly.Then this evening, after Editing, I met up with Steph and we went out for dinner, and I blithered at her about the zine idea, and she and I talked about it for a bit, and she's vaguely interested, too.
So here's what we're looking at right now. We're interested in putting out five issues, each one with a focus: Harry, Draco, Marauders, the Women, the Order (as it currently stands, anyway). Fiction would be new, i.e., unpublished, whether on LJ or on a website. Ideally I'd like to approach some BNFs and see if they're interested in submitting a story, and have the rest submitted by the fandom with the best selected by our elite judging panel, i.e., me, unless
cupiscent and notfudge want to lend a hand. I'm hoping they will. I'd also like to talk to an artist or two, at the very least for the cover, but possibly also for some interior illustrations. Just like Dee's friend's zine, we would own print and website publishing rights for, let's say a year, maybe a year and a half, after which all rights revert to the author. This is just so that these fics can't be read anywhere other than the zine for a bit, because otherwise the whole exercise is pointless.I have some other ideas, but they're mostly design related, so not of much use to anyone else at this point in time. Anyone interested? I'll have further talks about
cupiscent and notfudge, and we'll launch a website or something later (I'm already paying for the sodding domain, might as well do something with it), once all the details are finalised. We'll have submission requirements and cover sheets and that sort of thing. I'll dig out my old Visible Ink folder and have a look at publishing schedules and the like.Basically I'd like to make a nice-looking zine, with the price being maybe about AU$5 (so we can get a swanky cover - this is about two cents American, I think), depending on printing costs. We cannot, of course, make any money from this, but I didn't make any money from Visible Ink last year either, and that was far more effort.
I'm really excited. What about you guys?
Edit: Oh, we were also thinking about having at least one essay per issue. It'll be great!
