(Keeping Kicking, Kiddo!)
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I figured Boggs and Laney would occupy four pages apiece this issue. Now do you see why the lettercolumn and this editorial are squeezed into odd corners of the zine?
While nothing has exactly gone enuf wrong to be catastrophic (so far) in preparation of this third annish, there have been enuf little things -- delay in delivery of supplies, refusal of the manuscripts to fit into any sort of coherent page-scheme, sudden signs of senility in my typer (it's refusing to space the lines evenly, of late) -- so that this is the 28th of February and I still have six interior pages and half of the covers to run off yet. Ah well, maybe the fourth year will be easier.
Redd says enough about Warp history in his article to make it unnecessary for me to add anything. Except, perhaps, that what he doesn't mention is that at least 75% of all format improvements in Warp are suggested by him. All thru the mag's career, when deadline approached and blank pages waited to be filled, along would come a lifesaving envelope from Redd, bulging with manuscripts, artwork, etc. He should be listed on our masthead somewhere.
Ralph, Bill and I worked from 4:00 p.m. yesterday afternoon until 4:00 a.m. this morning, producing in that time one 7-page fanzine and four pages of another, both mags being things of joy and beauty such as mundane intellects like DSFL members can imagine only on rare occasions when they're full of alcohol but haven't yet passed out. Since the DSFL membership is some 10 times greater than our three-fan group, it would seem that the Detroiters could turn out a 100-page publication in a one-day session. Haw, that I would like to see.
Sorry there wasn't room for more letters this month; the April ish will have a longer Quien Sabe? This March Warp shows, for the first time, the new contents policy throughout. What do you think? I believe there are enough other zines printing fanfiction now, that cutting it to the minimum in Warp works no hardship on the authors; and most of the current subscribers to Warp, I think, would rather read non-fiction articles and columns.
Reviews of new books needed, by the way. And we have been unintentionally slighting Henry A. Ackermann, by misspelling his name, as several fen pointed out. Sorry, HAA.
-Ahr
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