Fandom Survivors Publications

Jamie Lawson, editor

A common catchphrase in the business world these days is "thinking outside the box." That is, thinking that goes beyond the normal, the conventional, the expectations of the organization. Innovative, creative thinking and ideas.

Fandom Survivors Publications is striving to bring attention to fans who think outside the box. We will always do our best to present material that will entertain you, but also make you think. Material that will move you -- to laughter, to tears, to excitement, to righteous outrage.

Submission Information (what we want to see; the function)
Submission Guidelines (how we want to see it; the form)

Available Now:

Legion Lore

68 pgs. -- comb bound -- price $7.50 plus shipping ($3.00 U.S.; $5.50 UK)
Click here to see the Table of Contents (.pdf file)

Compiling the best of the Legion of Rassilon newsletter Regeneration Quarterly (1992-1997), plus material from my 1980s zines Behind the Blue Door #1 and #2. Doctor Who, ST:TNG, essays, and more.

Accepting Submissions:

Off Sector #1

Publication date: January 2001
Submission deadline: October 31, 2000

"Red is grey and yellow white,
But we decide which is right
And which is an illusion."
--Justin Hayward, "Nights In White Satin"

The theme of our debut issue will be "Truth and Illusion." Stories, essays, poetry and art which reflect this theme are welcomed. A connection to the theme need not be painfully obvious, but I definitely don't want to see anything that ends with "It was all a dream!"

Submission Information

We said above that we are looking for material which demonstrates "thinking outside the box." What exactly do I mean by that? Maybe I should start by talking about what I don't mean.

I don't mean crossovers. While I'm not excluding crossover stories from consideration, I consider them a staple of fan writing and therefore hardly unconventional.

I don't mean stories that include graphic sex or violence, for no other reason than the original program couldn't depict those things. I sure as heck don't mean slash fiction.

Each issue of "Off Sector" will have a theme, which I hope can act as an inspiration. I want to see stories that go outside the box in that they tackle ideas and issues that are important to us -- in our fannish activities and ordinary lives.

I want to see material that is going to move the readers -- all of the readers, not just the author and the author's ten closest friends. I need your help as authors and artists to create a zine which is going to be important and relevant now, and ten or twenty years from now.

Think about the conventions of fan fiction. Think about what most people do when they try to go beyond those conventions.

And then, go beyond that.

Submission Guidelines

Writing: For electronic submissions, we can take MS Word files up through Word97; or WordPerfect files up through version 9. But unless you have some kind of special formatting that you need those programs for, why not make it easy on us and you, and send us stuff as ASCII text?

If for some reason you need to send us hardcopies, that's okay too. Please try to send as clean a copy as possible, with a nice basic typeface, as that will make it quicker and easier for us to scan in. We can't take hand-written material, or dot-matrix printed.

Artwork: You can send us an electronic copy of your material via email. We can recognize most common picture formats, though we recommend .jpg over .gif, as the former allows better control over resizing, etc.

If you need to send a hardcopy, please make sure it is a copy. Keep your originals -- we don't want to risk messing them up!