Another day, another dollar. No, that's not quite it. Another month, another Quandry. That's more like it. And what a Quandry. Already we can see the mail that will be in on this issue: "Oh, goshwowoboyoboy! A feud." - "Harump, I thought Q was above such gutter brawls. You may refund my subscription." - "Hot cinders! This feud is the best thing you've ever published!" - "Ghod, another account of 770" - "Oh, goshwowoboyoboy! Another account of 770." - "Where are the rest of the li'l peepul you drew in 770?" - "Where are all the columns?" - "Good, at last you've ditched all those columns." - etc. etc. ad infinitum. Shall we endevor to answer the above now? Firstly, we don't mind a nice logical 'feud', but too much mudslinging is liable to make a zine unreadable. Secondly, this is probably the last of the con-reports. Unless some especially interesting stuff comes along. We do intend to have an article on MYOB soon tho. But we feel that 770 is a subject worthy of much print. Already it is legend and tradition. As to the li'l peepul we drew there, we ran the ones that we thought would have the most general interest in the last issue. Remember some of the ones that you might have enjoyed while you were there may not have interest to non-attendees. And as to our columns, WAW is at present involved in the coming SLANT, Boggs is still in hibernation as far as File #13 is concerned, and Silverberg and Conner will be back with us in an issue or two. Okay?
If you are interested in the con reports and didn't get Q#14, send for a copy now. We have about half a dozen copies left which are chock full of pictures that go along with these and other con reportss. If you do have Q#14, pull it out and correlate the pics with the con reports in this ish.
There are several new fmz out now. One from Dave English at 203 Robin St, Dunkirk, N.Y. Hektoed. Write him for further info. Another is MAD from Dick Ryan at 224 Broad St., Newark, Ohio. This one really strikes our fancy. First issue has its own type of li'l people - the GLEEPs. Also several columns and some reviews of fmz and pros. We shall quote a bit from the editorial: "Don't be deterred just because you can't write like Walter Willis, either. If you're even * as good as Tucker we'll accept you." This brings to mind our own editorial call for material. We say that you don't have to write like WAW either. We don't even require that you write as well as Tuck. In our opinion such requirements would limit the number of writers appearing in Q, quite confiningly. We only ask that you write well. We are interested in material with a fan slant. We want all kinds of material except long or serious fiction. Satire and stuff with a fan slant, we want. Other kinds, only in a few special cases. Articles and such ... send 'em on. But if you haven't written for Q before, please enclose return postage. And please put sufficient postage on the envelope. It discourages us to pay three cents postage due on a letter, open it, find an unsuitable manuscript, and have to pay 6¢ to return the manuscript to the writer. Also please put your name and address on the manuscript itself. And if you are not sure as to whether or not your manuscript will meet our editorial requirements, you can send a note to the effect that we can pass it along to some other editor or to the N3F mess boo and we'll do so, saving you time and money.
See ya in the back of this mag ...
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* does this have some deep
esoteric meaning,
Data entry by Judy Bemis
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