Jun
15
need info (and help!) for new issue
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We’re working on a new issue, to be released later this summer. Zine World wants to be a great resource for all zine publishers and readers; we need your help to make that happen. The information you give us will be shared with all of Zine World’s readers, plus with visitors to our website.
Please send us:
- Updates for our zine library / infoshop list. The next issue will include our full list (U.S. and international). Email info on new locations, closed locations, or changes to jerianne@undergroundpress.org. Please include as much contact info as possible and a brief description about your collection / services.
- Listings and recommendations for our stores & distros list. Share your recommendations on what distros or stores have done you right, either as a publisher or as a purchaser. Or tell us what places to stay away from — which ones are unreliable, don’t pay promptly, etc. Or, if you have a distro or a store that sells zines and you want to be on our list, email us with your distro’s name, website, mailing address, and a one-sentence description.
- Updates for our zine review zines list (including websites). Tell us about new review sources or ones that have stopped publishing. Please include contact information.
- Event listings, for events happening August 2008 or later. Or, if you’ve recently attended a zine event, we’d love to hear your report about how it went. (Event organizers — we’d love to hear from you, too! Share your knowledge and experience about planning, organizing, or hosting an event.)
- Other zine resources or advice — experiences with print shops; advice on or experiences with postage & mailing; deadbeat zines; advice on diy printing or equipment; online resources; or anything else you think other zinesters would want to know.
- Moved? Share youre zine’s new mailing address.
Send info or comments on any of the above to wordofmouth@undergroundpress.org.
We also take advertising! You can submit a free classified ad (up to 50 words) for your zine, distro, diy project or group, as well as for calls-for-submissions, personals, or whatever else. Please be sure to include contact information — that means a mailing address, unless you’re just hawking a website. Display ads are super affordable, starting at just $15. Buying an ad helps us pay for printing the zine, so we can keep the cover price affordable. Email jerianne@undergroundpress.org for ad rates or to submit your classified.
And: Zine World wants to put you to work! Help us get the next issue out, and we’ll give you free zines and whatnot. Volunteers are needed for:
- ad rep - We need someone to coordinate advertising for ZW, including answering advertising queries and seeking new advertisers.
- distribution / order fulfillment - We need someone to take over distribution of ZW to stores; it would be great to have someone help out with filling orders.
- art coordinator - We need someone to keep up with the art submissions and to stay in contact with artists to line up artwork for each issue.
- writers & artists - We need someone to make a cover for the next issue, as well as interior art submission. We’re also looking for a column for the next issue. Email with your ideas.
- general grunt work - typing, checking addresses, online research, etc.
A lot of work goes into each issue of Zine World. The more volunteers we have, the quicker it will get done, and the quicker we can release a new issue. Email jerianne@undergroundpress.org for more details.
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Hey Jerianne! I will be getting in touch soon in order to submit an ad for the Richmond Zine Fest in October this year. I am excited that you are slated for an issue coming out towards the end of the summer! i need my Zine World fix. I’ll also get in touch with volunteering. I’d like to busy myself more with zine projects rather than video games like i have been doing recently.
Thanks!
Nicole
Do you have a deadline for submissions?
With luck, we’ll be finalizing content in mid-July.
Jerianne -
I’d be thrilled to help out however that I can. Firstly, a few wee questions: Do you still need someone to do the cover for the next issue? I have MANY great artist pals that I’m sure would pounce on the opportunity. You also mentioned needing a column written. Is that also still needed, as I may be able to help with that one myself. Is the column to be about something specific? If not, do you at least have some general ideas of what you’d like for it content-wise? Lastly, I’ll be sending you my audtion reviews via .doc file within the next couple of weeks. Hopefully, you’ll find that I suit “ZW” and take me on, as I’ve got plenty of spare time with which to use for such a ginchy gig. Please be so kind as to send me an e-mail regarding my questions and I sincerely hope that I can help out with the above-mentioned needs. Thankee ever so! - Buffy
P.S. I’ve thrown together some more nifty-gifties for your teensy boy, and it’s a fairly large package (a medium-sized box), so I hope that the PO Box address that you had me use last time can accept such a package. Anyway, I’ll be sending it out in a couple of weeks, at which time I’ll give you a little “head’s up” e-mail to let you know to be on the lookout for it.