faneditor n.

Your editorial blast at a certain section of the fan magazines has me standing up and cheering. It appears to me that the fan editors never get humps in their back until an editor has rejected a few of their stories. That seems to bring out the literary critic in them.

Robinson and Tucker will publish (this winter) belated 1942 Yearbook of Science, Fantasy & Weird Fiction, not waiting for Molasses Unger to get around to it. Price two-bits, free to faneditors who exchange.

I’m putting out a fanzine in January…. I hereby promise (IN PUBLIC PRINT!) to carry out to the best of my ability my debts to you as a faneditor.

There are a lot of fanzines being published today…. I wonder how many of these brand-new faneditors realize just how numerous they are?

Every year we have the Hugo nominations and awards and every year Locus wins. However, every year some real fanzine and fan editor gets nominated…and loses. The token faneditor or something.

If fanzine editors used to insist on first-time publication of illos, the artists grumbling accepted this state of affairs…. The only way an artist could try another faneditor would be to retrieve the original art, an embarrassing chore for all concerned.

Writer, faneditor, critic, and author…, he died peacefully in his sleep.

It Is a Proud (em…) And Lonely (yes indeed) Thing To Be a beginning faneditor, as you will surely remember.