Writing for the love of it
Nov. 17th, 2007 01:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lprovenAs in, not for filthy lucre. Bit of an alien notion to me, this, but it does happen. Here, mainly.
But back in Spring, I "pubbed my ish"*, as part of the JETS race - a one-off fan fund (a sort of science fiction fandom popularity contest) to take someone to Japan for "Nippon 2007", the first World Science Fiction Convention in Japan. It was a long time ago and I'd mostly forgotten about it, and then, earlier this month, something amazing happened. I was at Novacon in Walsall, a pleasant little convention in the Midlands, when I idly scanned the ballot form for the Nova awards, a British fan-writing prize given at that convention. To my utter amazement, I found that I was listed as eligible. It's all the fault of the![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fishlifters.
Naturally, I didn't win, which was neither a surprise nor a disappointment, but what was was that so many friends I spoke to about it said "you published a 'zine?" Clearly my distribution efforts were not widespread enough.
So, in a belated attempt to rectify that, it's now online. You can find it here:
http://efanzines.com/SailingNorth/
It's a compilation and slight tidying-up of the Norwegian travelogue I published here back in '04 or so. A lot of you seemed to rather like that back then. This time, though, it has pictures. Lots of them. Bill Burns, estimable host of efanzines.com, has dramatically shrunk and compressed the PDF file, so it's a lot more manageable than before, at the cost of a little bit of loss of photo quality. It looks OK on-screen, though. And most of it's in a single-column layout, so it's fairly readable off a monitor, too.
Enjoy. If you know anyone interested in such things, do please feel free to tell them about it. I am happy to provide CDs of the full-sized version on request, which comes with hundreds more full-size photos.
* It's a fannish catchphrase. If you're not part of SF fandom, don't worry about it, please. FIJAGH, after all. If you like the piece, though, LOC me or send a poctsacrd. This is about as close to sercon fhanac as I come. ;¬)
But back in Spring, I "pubbed my ish"*, as part of the JETS race - a one-off fan fund (a sort of science fiction fandom popularity contest) to take someone to Japan for "Nippon 2007", the first World Science Fiction Convention in Japan. It was a long time ago and I'd mostly forgotten about it, and then, earlier this month, something amazing happened. I was at Novacon in Walsall, a pleasant little convention in the Midlands, when I idly scanned the ballot form for the Nova awards, a British fan-writing prize given at that convention. To my utter amazement, I found that I was listed as eligible. It's all the fault of the
fishlifters.Naturally, I didn't win, which was neither a surprise nor a disappointment, but what was was that so many friends I spoke to about it said "you published a 'zine?" Clearly my distribution efforts were not widespread enough.
So, in a belated attempt to rectify that, it's now online. You can find it here:
http://efanzines.com/SailingNorth/
It's a compilation and slight tidying-up of the Norwegian travelogue I published here back in '04 or so. A lot of you seemed to rather like that back then. This time, though, it has pictures. Lots of them. Bill Burns, estimable host of efanzines.com, has dramatically shrunk and compressed the PDF file, so it's a lot more manageable than before, at the cost of a little bit of loss of photo quality. It looks OK on-screen, though. And most of it's in a single-column layout, so it's fairly readable off a monitor, too.
Enjoy. If you know anyone interested in such things, do please feel free to tell them about it. I am happy to provide CDs of the full-sized version on request, which comes with hundreds more full-size photos.
* It's a fannish catchphrase. If you're not part of SF fandom, don't worry about it, please. FIJAGH, after all. If you like the piece, though, LOC me or send a poctsacrd. This is about as close to sercon fhanac as I come. ;¬)
