I miss zines terribly and I have considered doing a one shot zine for KLS. I would love to bring it out for next years fest. I have a lot of material but would need a lot more to fill it out.... I did one for Lara Parker in the late nineties. The Lara Zine....
I miss zines too, bigtime. In the other fandoms I have been active in, the norm is that multiple zines in the 200 + page range come out usually once a year, timed to sell at Mediawest, the big multimedia zine oriented convention. The comparative famine in DS fandom is discouraging. And it doesn't seem that its caused by masses of good publishable fanfic being published to the web. The quality of that has gone down dreadfully since I started looking in 2002, with a number of sites with wonderful fanfiction (such as Juliahoffman.com) disappearing into the ether of hyperspace.
Best of luck with the KLS project. I remember buying the Lara zine at my first fest. Glad you did one before, so I know you know what you're letting yourself in for. Been there done that regarding putting out zines -- back in the dawn of time I published a couple, as well as doing a letterzine dedicated to
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. That's why I'd rather have Kathy put out the zine (if she has any realistic expectation of putting one out after all this time) rather than publish the stories myself. If I get bitten by any story ideas involving KLS characters (which hasn't happened yet -- too many post 1897 Quentin stories yammering at me to be written) I'll send them to you for consideration.
I was thinking, its interesting how zines dedicated to individual characters/actors break out in DS fandom. The bulk of all stories in general are Barnabas and someone else, even in the non-dedicated zines like Inside the Old House and World of Dark Shadows. Then again, some of the stories are constructed to use all the characters, which is the ideal, and my favorite kind of story. I believe Wyndcliff Watch is primarily Barnabas and Julia (someone please correct me if I am wrong, I only have one of the later issues, which I found on Ebay). Karlenzines are the size and quality I am used to from other fandoms, and they got enough submissions for four of them. Then there's your Lara oriented zine. I think that's IT for the main characters.
Oddly enough, I've never heard (or read ads in old WODS for) either a Quentin oriented zine, or one dedicated to all Selby's roles, though I've found some excellent Quentin fanfic on the web. It just seems a peculiar omission with such a popular character. My frame of reference there is the fact that over a 20 year period there were no less than THREE high quality fanzines dedicated to nothing but fanfic b ased on Harrison Ford's various roles. And, as wonderful as Indy and Han are, Ford just isn't in the same class of character actor as Selby.
Jeannie
