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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 Fiction would be new, i.e., unpublished, whether on LJ or on a website.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!
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I'm sorry, but I must continue to mutilate grammar in your presence. I'm tired :(
Date: 2005-04-14 12:34 pm (UTC)Tell me more! What will it be like? This idea of zines is completely new to me. I have been around the internet forever, but have remained wilfully ignorant of most things that go on (until recently. And then the fun started).
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Date: 2005-04-14 12:34 pm (UTC)Re: I'm sorry, but I must continue to mutilate grammar in your presence. I'm tired :(
Date: 2005-04-14 12:37 pm (UTC)So it'll be like a little "literary" magazine with short HP fiction in it, maybe an illustration or two. Black and white, with maybe a two-tone cover.
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Date: 2005-04-14 12:38 pm (UTC)*watches*
Date: 2005-04-14 12:42 pm (UTC)This sounds lovely! I have a few of those from uni. They have arty things in them. They're sweet and intimate and feel precious for being so simply made. I will be watching intently. I would contribute, of course, were it not for the fact that I have never properly entered the strange world of hp fiction.
Re: *watches*
Date: 2005-04-14 12:43 pm (UTC)Re: *watches*
Date: 2005-04-14 12:44 pm (UTC)Eeeexcellent! I would love to purchase one.
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Date: 2005-04-14 12:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-14 12:53 pm (UTC)Would it just be fics, or could there be...essays? Weird fascinatingly geeky academic tidbits? I love those.
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Date: 2005-04-14 01:14 pm (UTC)I forgot to mention that! There will also be at least one essay per issue, I hope. I love essays.
Would you be interested in illustrating an issue, depending on how many pieces we have, and whether we want more than one or two with illustrations, etc? Hopefully this would involve illustrating a cover, and possibly a dinkus* or two. Understand that this is a VERY tentative offer. I cannot promise anything at this stage.
*A dinkus is a small illustration or icon that accompanies text, such as the hourglass with batwings in Good Omens.
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Date: 2005-04-14 08:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-14 10:47 pm (UTC)Well, when you want it, anyway. I am experimenting with writing in the Potterverse at the moment. Perhaps one of the zine issues could be based around the topic of "Family", since that is a fairly integral theme of the series? And one that I am well involved with at the moment.
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Date: 2005-04-14 11:00 pm (UTC)Still think you're bonkers, but wouldn't mind at all having a ringside seat to observe the madness in progress. And, of course, assist.
I was going to ask if you wanted to have coffee sometime to braindump or something, but of course you have a negative amount of free time, don't you? Would email be better? (Well, email is never better than coffee, but you get my drift.)
In related stuff that might be useful: website for the Lotrips zine is here (http://zine.dombillijah.com/). I can bring my copy along for you to have a squiz at sometime, if you're interested.
I just had an apostrophe. Just how insane are you/we? Because it strikes me that the Lotrips one, at 228 pages and some twenty stories or something, was too long (I haven't actually read everything in it) and it would also solve that timing problem you were talking about it these things were actual zine-zines. Like, serial.
*boggles at the long-term commitment of that concept*
I'm not, obviously, talking all five every month or something. But what about one every three months (cut the categories down to four, then have one issue of each category per year?) or something like that?
Your insanity is obviously catching. I'm going off for more toast and a little lie down.
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Date: 2005-04-14 11:44 pm (UTC)Steph suggested that we get together for coffee & discussion on some Saturday or Sunday - I'm free this Sunday, if you are.
Agreed - we're looking at a real zine here, not quite the anthology the LOTRIPS thing seemed to be attempting. We're making a zine, not another Visible Ink!
One every three months like that seems viable. Might be worth attempting it ...
Heh, I've just gotten up, so I might just go for the toast & skip the lie down. :D
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Date: 2005-04-14 11:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-17 05:16 am (UTC)" [OMG!11!!1!]Harry, [*SQUEES!1!!!]Draco, Marauders[...but not Peter], teh Women, teh Order"
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*Runs. Runs really fast.*
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Date: 2005-04-17 07:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-21 05:45 am (UTC)CafePress's details on costing of books and book-like materials (http://www.cafepress.com/cp/info/sell/products/books).