Buffy ,'Chosen'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Ah, I'd missed that, sumi. You're right, it is a little strange in that case. I do know of a few people who are producing LOTR fanfiction zines right now, but they're selling them online and not at cons.
Bill O'Reilly, who wrote one of the single unsexiest descriptions of going-down, ever
Must. Read. What book?
Dani, I think it was Betsy who linked it, ages back - the "seduction" scene.
Merciful heavens, it was bad. There was a line about "moments later, his tongue was flicking back and forth inside her".
Truly. Really really bad.
Yikes. Feel like I need a shower now (and not in a good way).
Anyone else picturing Christ in a rather...vulnerable state? I really need to stop writing such dirty-minded people. Special Hell for this blasphemer...
I've had some truck with fanficcers selling zines. They do charge for 'zines full of stories and sometimes art, but they're lucky to meet their production costs. This amounts to a labor of love, I think.
This amounts to a labor of love, I think.
Yeah, nobody ever made it rich selling fanfic zines.
Feel like I need a shower now (and not in a good way).
Exactly, and how sad is that? The book was meant to be porn. It's too crappy to be porn.
It makes me feel quite gifted.
sumi, zines are still alive and flourishing. Last con I went to, there were two or three dealer tables with zines.
nobody ever made it rich selling fanfic zines
true dat.
In an interesting aside, the rise of the internet has made fanfic writing actually safer for fans, since no money is changing hands at all. Any exchange of cash for unauthorized derivative works (like dvds of fan vids, or zines) is more likely to get the attention of lawyers than distribution of such works for free. The fact that they're sold at cost may not be enough to defend the producers.
And yeah, I have a collection of Trek zines that I need to auction off. Gotta figure out how to do that. I look at it as a sociological curiosity more than anything else, since the collection goes all the way back to the first ever Trek zine, produced in 1969. 35 years of fannish history, all in one box; pretty damned cool.