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paper trail distro news august 2008

2008-08-11T15:21:42Z

learning to leave a paper trail zine distro has been around for nearly five years & stocks around 150 zines in the personal/political vein, addressing topics such as feminism, anti-racism, anarchism, punk rock, parenting, reproductive health, mental health, death, recipes, bikes, sex work, addiction, radical history, teaching, & a whole lot more. the full catalogue, complete with detailed descriptions of every zine available, cover scans, postage-paid pricing, a shopping cart, a wholesale catalogue for infoshops, info for zinesters looking to send their zines in for consideration, etc, can be found at http://www.papertraildistro.com.

several new zines have been added to the catalogue, including "it's not the end of the world!" (handy tips & tricks for people struggling with tendonitis, carpal tunnel syndrome, & repetitive stress injuries), "breakfast at twilight" #2 (scathing critiques of anti-psychiatry & rust belt misappropriation, plus personal stories about mental health & writing science fiction), "the worst" #1 (an enormous & amazing comp zine on grief, mourning, & surviving the death of a loved one), "telegram ma'am" #14 (very intimate & personal account of living with mental illness), & "potentially heartwrenching distractions" (a really charming personal zine about traveling, settling down, estranged fathers, coming out, etc). all of this zines are incredible in their own unique ways, & tons of new stuff is due to arrive in the coming weeks.

feel free to send in your zines for distro consideration! please note my brand-new address:
12 lincoln ave. #3
somerville ma 02145
full submission guidelines can be found here.

i also just want to offer the reminder that subscription orders must be received by september 30 to make the deadline for october mailings. all the details about what it means to subscribe to the distro (zines! surprises! four times a year!) can be found here (including info on how to get a free subscription), as can all pertinent info on the distro collections i offer (ten zines for $20, postage-paid anywhere in the world!).

i also have a monthly e-newsletter with a little more info & zine-related news. subscribe at http://lists.riseup.net (the list name is papertrail) or drop me a line & i'll subscribe you.

don't forget about the boston zine fair, september 20 & 21. i'll be there with the distro if all goes according to plan. http://www.bostonzinefair.org for details & registrtion.

paper trail distro

click me

2008-08-06T17:38:55Z

Richmond Zine Fest - October 11th, 2008 - Richmond, VA

2008-07-26T06:09:24Z

RICHMOND ZINE FEST 2008
Saturday, October 11th
11am-5pm
@ Gay Community Center of Richmond
1407 Sherwood Avenue
FREE ADMISSION
Tabling fees vary from $10-35

NEW WEBSITE FOR 2008: richmondzinefest.org
Table, workshop, and readings registration are all open!

We are looking to have a wide variety of workshops, so if you would be interested in teaching one, please sign up on the website!

E-mail richmondzinefest@yahoo.com if you have any questions.
Also e-mail if you are interested in exchanging fliers.

We also have a new messageboard linked via the website. Post there if you're looking for rides or a place to stay in Richmond.

PS - We're in Richmond, VA, USA

i'm not angry (anymore)

2008-07-24T01:37:37Z

this is a mini zine i did for the 24 Hour Zine Thing!
it's about my anger issues. (it also contains drawings by my very talented husband!)

I'm not angry(anymore)

it's a dollar from My Etsy Store.
get it here.

zines & spoken word

2008-07-22T02:49:54Z

zines & spoken word for sale in my etsy store!!!!!

jolie's etsy store

paper trail distro news july 2008

2008-07-14T15:51:14Z

paper trail distro news
i haven't posted one of these updates in a couple of months. so first, a little intro: paper trail distro has been around since october 2003 (almost five years!). i mostly carry personal zines with a political twist, but that is broadly interpreted. i carry around 150 different zines & have a really simple postage-paid shopping cart system (for u.s. orderers & international both), so ordering is really easy. you can check out the catlogue & everything else at http://www.papertraildistro.com. on to the news!

a few new items have come into stock in recent weeks: "life during wartime" #9 (the newest edition of erin yanke's amazing audio zine, this issue all about a perilous quest to sell a rare velvet underground acetate found at a yard sale), "otaku" #5 (a re-print of jeff miller's last zine before changing the name & launching the "ghost pine" series), "recognition" (a beautiful & intoxicating art zine by molly kalkstein), & "on the lower frequencies: a secret history of the city" (erick lyle's exhaustive history of fighting back against gentrification in san francisco, published by soft skull press). some great stuff should also be arriving shortly, including the newest "keep loving keep fighting," & "the worst," a compilation zine on death, loss, & grief. you can read more detailed descriptions for these & everything else at the website.

some of you know that i launched a subscription program last fall. i've gotten tons of great feedback on it ("these are great! everyone should order them!" & "it was like my birthday with zines!"), so i switched it up a little bit, to reduce my workload & make things more fun for everyone. now subscriptions are good for a year, & every three months, subscribers receive a package of six new zines from the distro, a newsletter, & some kind of awesome crafty surprise. subscriptions are $50 in the u.s. & $60 elsewhere. more details on the whole thing can be found here.

i also offer, as a token of gratitude to people who place at least three orders eight or more items, a free half-subscriptions (good for six months, or two packages). i keep track of orders & let folks know when they become eligible for the free deal. either way, it's pretty awesome & i am now taking orders for subscriptions to be mailed in october. i have to receive your order by september 30 to get in on the october mailing.

i also started a monthly e-mailing announcement list for the distro--like this, but a little more personable. subscribe at http://lists.riseup.net (search for "papertrail") or e-mail me at learningtoleaveapapertrail (at) hotmail (dot) com & i'll add you.

i decided recently that i really want to expand the distro catalogue. i have a (deserved) reputation for being really choosy, but i think maybe i've been a little too choosy & i need to open things up a little & make space for zines i may have overlooked before. send zines to me at 14 hyde park ave. #1a, jamaica plain ma 02130. also see here for my new & improved submission guidelines.

lastly, i turn 29 on friday. if you want to get me a birthday present, i'd really like a bunch of distro orders & awesome zines for distro consideration.

Fan History fanzine index

2008-07-04T16:27:56Z

Fan History Wiki is trying to create a directory of fandom oriented fanzines and fandom related fanzine publishers.

At the present, we have articles on over four hundred fanzines and thirty fanzine publishers. If you're a fanzine publisher or want to promote your favorite publisher, we encourage you to create an article. Feel free to include links to where you can buy the links, any conventions you're going to be selling zines at, etc. If you're a fanzine reader, writer, contributor or publisher, please use the fanzine template as the base for any new articles you want to create about fanzines.

Fan History Wiki is also trying to create a collection of fanzine related terms. If you know a term that isn't include, please use our term template to help create a new article. :) We're also looking for help in our general article about fanzines and the history of fanzines.

The wonderful thing about contributing this information to Fan History Wiki is that it has an active community, gets a fair amount of traffic for a resource of this type and it is a wiki, which means that anyone can edit it.

Zine Grabbags!

2008-06-27T01:23:10Z

Get a zine grabbag for you and automatically get one donated to your favorite zine library!

I'm moving and need to get rid of the 30+ grabbags I have leftover from my old distro days and from my personal collection. You should help me! For every grabbag you purchase, I will donate another one to the zine library of your choice.

How it's going down: Click the appropriate paypal button below. Type the name and mailing address of the zine library of your choice in the "Notes" section. Make sure your own address is selected. Pay. You're done.

$5.00 - 1 grabbag to you in the U.S. + 1 grabbag to a zine library in the U.S.

$6.00 - 1 grabbag to you/zine library in the U.S. + 1 grabbag to you/zine library outside of the U.S.

$7.00 - 1 grabbag to you outside of the U.S. + 1 grabbag to a zine library outside of the U.S.

Please make sure you include both your address & the address of the zine library you'd like to donate to! I will edit the post when they are all gone.

Cross-posted all over the place.

RICHMOND ZINE FEST 2008!!! (Richmond, VA)

2008-06-14T02:08:47Z

RICHMOND ZINE FEST 2008
Saturday, October 11th
11am-5pm
@ Gay Community Center of Richmond
1407 Sherwood Avenue

NEW WEBSITE FOR 2008: richmondzinefest.org
Table and workshop registration is open as of today!

E-mail richmondzinefest@yahoo.com if you have any questions.
Also e-mail if you are interested in exchanging fliers.

We also have a new messageboard. Post there if you're looking for rides or a place to stay in Richmond.

PS - We're in Richmond, VA, USA.

X-posted in a lot of places.

paperzines @ 2008-06-11T21:48:00

2008-06-12T01:48:03Z

Tazewell's Favorite Eccentric #7 is sort of loosely themed around sex and sexuality. As always, writing about relationships sort of snuck in. There's a letter to this boy I had a crush on and why it could never be, what I want from my next relationship, a piece about sex work/domination (and my experienced therein), teenage promiscuity (again, personal experiences and reflections), homo/bisexuality and queerness, and a few other short random pieces.
The deets: TFE7 weighs about an ounce and a half, is 18 pages with a violet cardstock cover. It cost $2 via mail (Sarah Arr!, PO BOX 235, North Tazewell, VA 24630) or $2.50 via paypal (to piratesarah at gmail dot com). It can also be had for a perzine trade or a cleverly themed mix cd.
Questions? Just ask.

Mrs. Noggle #12

2008-05-29T20:43:39Z

Mrs. Noggle 12

issue 12 of "Mrs Noggle" zine is finally out! interviews with Sage A. & Jamie N. (about being tattoo artists), info about The Final Grrrls cd (spoken word project with my friend Hannah)& a reprint of my mini zine "tick tock biological clock"

buy it here.

feelers for zines

2008-05-20T22:40:01Z

I've got a bunch of random comp zines working around in my head, and have for awhile. But for good reasons (that aren't really public blog material) I haven't really had much time/energy/money to flesh them out. If you'd be interested in any of the following, leave me a comment or send me an email (piratesarah at gmail dot com).

Hometown Proud - thoughts on home. Stories, descriptions, pictures, photography about your memories and concepts of the idea of home. Your hometown, or the the first place that felt like you could make a life there.

Princess Who - reinventing and redefining women in fairy tales. What would happen if Show White demanded equal wages from the dwarves or Cinderella was queer? This is a great chance to reclaim female archetypes in a more positive light.

Coming Clean - the coming out stories of queer/trans folks.

Mental Wealth - Dealing with "mental illness," exploring alternatives to traditional medicine, finding a safe outlet for your thoughts and feelings. How have these things affected you? How do you cope with stress?

(Crossposted around like crazy. Sorry!)

Just a question or two...

2008-05-07T01:39:56Z

What's the title of you zine? How did you come up with that title?

My answer: Four Star Daydream, from a lyric in a Pink Floyd's Money. I just heard it and said, "That's it! That's my zine name!"

paper trail distro may news

2008-05-02T16:16:13Z

"doris" #25 & "HPV" are the most recent additions to the paper trail distro catalogue! "doris" #25 is the continuation of cindy's encyclopedia series, in which she answers questions about anarchism, focusing on the important things, her memories of her mom, quitting drinking, & more. "HPV" is an incredibly well-researched resource that ought to answer just about all your questions about HPV, the most common STI around. there are a few more new zines coming in soon, & possibly a few non-zine items too.

paper trail distro focuses on personal zines with radical or d.i.y. emphases. i have all kinds of different zines on bikes, parenting, reproductive health, mental health, traveling, death, abuse, addiction, queer & trans issues, feminism, urban sustainability, & a lot more. the catalogue is about 150 zines strong, & i'm always looking for new stuff, so feel free to send your zine in for consideration to: 14 hyde park ave. #1a, jamaica plain ma 02130. (& see here for submission guidelines.) & ordering is easy: i take paypal, cash, checks, & money orders, & the website features a postage-paid shopping cart so you don't have to mess around with a bunch of math.

i am offering wholesale prices for a lot of the zines in the catalogue too. yellow paypal buttons are for wholesale orders. you have to order at least three copies of a given zine to get the wholesale price. if you're interested in wholesaleing something that doesn't have a yellow button, drop me a line & i'll see what i can do for you.

i also offer three different collections for people who don't want to fuss through the catalogue & like getting zines for a bargain. each collection ("newest additions," "hot sellers," & "ciara's choice") is $15 postage-paid to anywhere in the world, & you can buy two or more collections at once for even more savings. more details are here.

& of course, there are the ever-popular subscriptions. every three months, i package up a bunch of zines (fifteen of them), plus some specially-made zine-related craft items & mail them to the current subscribers. here's an example of some of what went into one package in january:

pretty exciting. one subscription is good for one awesome package, which is custom-packed to make sure you're not getting anything you have already ordered from me (to the best of my abilities). a subscription costs $30 within the u.s. & $35 elsewhere. OR you can get a free subscription when you place three orders of eight items or more. i have already given away at least a couple dozen free subscriptions that way. i keep track of your orders, so i'll just write & let you know when you're eligible for a free one. right now summer subscriptions are open. you have to order or qualify for a free one by midnight on june 30, & they will be mailed in the first week or july. praise for the subscriptions: "it was like xmas at my house when it came!" "they're amazing, everyone should get one." "i felt like i won the zine lottery!"

also, check out the interviews. there are a few dozen of them (newest: greg from "rice harvester," & eva from "what i saw from where i stood" should have one up in a week or two). they're pretty interesting.

http://www.papertraildistro.com

zine sale

2008-04-26T15:51:46Z

some of my zines are on sale in my etsy shop so check it out!!!!

jolie's etsy store

Tick Tock Biological Clock

2008-04-13T15:30:08Z

"Tick Tock Biological Clock" is out!!! this is a mini zine about wanting to be a mother but not feeling ready. it's only 50 cents ($1 with shipping!) it is available from my etsy store! I ALSO ACCEPT TRADES! please email me about that at:
mrsnoggle@yahoo.com

buy it

Also! The "Cringer Turns Into Battlecat" Series is back!!! bad poetry about bad boys...& booze! 6 mini zines for $1!!!

get it

paper trail distro! april 2008 news

2008-04-03T23:56:41Z

spring has descended on paper trail distro in the form on a bunch of incredible new zines in catalogue, a new interview, & the opening of summer paper trail subscriptions! new additions to the catalogue include "i dreamed i was assertive" #11 (quirky handwritten personal zine about making art & food from a chicago librarian mom), "day of reckoning" #6 (altenately heartbreaking & hilarious personal stories about suicide, mike watt, break-ups, & playing noise music, written by my neighbor & good friend david), "what i saw from where i stood" (hands down one of the best zines i have ever read, about the death of a close friend in a new orleans bus accident, & an unplanned pregnancy begetting some punk rock parenting insights), "glossolalia" #10 (gorgeous letterpressed covers containing a thoughtful zine about juvenile justice system reform), "phases of the moon" #3 (gorgeous photography accompanied by personal writing about punk houses, new orleans, documentation, & more), "your pretty face is going straight to hell" #2 (scrappy cut & paste personal zine by a finnish emigre to england struggling to make ends meet post-college), & "scam" #6 (fascinating, detailed, & well-written history of the radical street stencil movement in buenos aires...& even more incredible zines are added to the catalogue just about every week! plus greg from "rice harvester" did an interview for my questions & answers with zinesters series (almost twenty in the archives now!).

for the uninitiated, paper trail distro has been kicking since october 2003 & currently boasts a catalogue of nearly 150 different zines covering topics like reproductive health, mental health, traveling, punk rock, parenting, sex work, how-to d.i.y. information, death, abuse, bikes, recipes, & generally awesome personal zines with a political twist. i accept orders via paypal, cash, checks, & money orders. all prices in the catalogue are postage-paid (for u.s. orderers & international folks) for ultimate simplicity. go take a look through the catalogue now!

spring subscriptions closed at midnight on april 1 & are curently in the mail. summe subscriptions are now open! they'll close on june 30 & will be mailed during the first week of july. distro subscriptions consist of a selection of fifteen awesome zines from the distro catalogue (an emphasis on newer items, plus a few made specifically for the subscriptions) & some crafty handmade surprises too (posters, pins, silkscreened cards, all kinds of cool stuff). subscriptions cost $30 within the u.s. & $35 everywhere else.

learning to leave a paper trail zine distro.

ZINE GRAB BAGS!!!

2008-04-02T16:06:51Z

i have 2 sets of grab bags for sale...the first one is made up of MY ZINES!!! cos i got a new ink cartridge & when a little crazy & made a bunch of copies!! so i decided to make a few grab bags....this grab bag contains atleast 5 of my zines (most zines usually cost $2-$3 so i think it's a pretty good deal!) & you will also get a few mini zines as well!!!!

get it here: Mrs. Noggle Zine Grab Bag

& the other one is made up of my old zines: Veronica Lodge,Babelicious,The Drama, Trading Punches,& mini zines i did : Vampira & Cringer Turns Into Battlecat!!!! & i copied all of them & put together some zine grab bags!!!! EACH GRAB BAG CONTAINS 5-7 ZINES PLUS A FEW MINI ZINES!

Jolie's Old Zines Grab Bag

SPRING ZINE SALE!!!

2008-03-21T17:51:34Z

MOST OF MY ZINES ARE ON SALE! GET THEM HERE: JOLIE'S ETSY STORE

X-posted

2008-03-17T17:32:59Z

Hi, I am currently writing an honours dissertation on the relationship between Wikipedia and Fanzine cultures for the completion of my degree at the University of Stirling, Scotland. I would be very interested in asking anyone involved a few questions relating to this topic.

Would you be willing to be interviewed for this study? Initially I would like to ask you a few questions in an email with possibly another follow up email to clear up any points raised by your answers. This will not take much of your time at all and would be indispensable for me. Please let me know if you would be interested in taking part.

paper trail distro news! march 2008

2008-03-04T17:04:46Z

a lot of changes for paper trail distro in the last month. first of all, there are some fantastic news zines in stock, including "big hands" #5.5 (an exhaustively researched history of the anarchist punk/dance band chumbawamba, which comes with a cassette of their songs), "truckface" #11 (alternately sad & funny stories about working as a student teacher for the chicago public school system), "rum lad" #3 (stunningly illustrated snippets of life from an english punk), & "one way ticket" #5 (smart & thoughtful punk rock hitchhiking stories...julian also did an interview with me this past month)...& even more incredible zines are coming soon!

for the uninitiated, paper trail distro has been around for about four & a half years & currently boasts a catalogue of nearly 150 different zines covering topics like reproductive health, mental health, traveling, punk rock, parenting, sex work, how-to d.i.y. information, death, abuse, bikes, recipes, & generally awesome personal zines with a political twist. i accept orders via paypal, cash, checks, & money orders. all prices in the catalogue are postage-paid (for u.s. orderers & international folks) for ultimate simplicity. go take a look through the catalogue now!

the distro also moved physical locations this month, when i moved into a new apartment. make a note of the new address: 14 hyde park ave. #1a, jamaica plain ma 02130. this is where to send letters & zines & hand-crafted posters with which to decorate my new walls! (i am always accepting zines for distro consideration, for real.)

i also launched a wholesale catalogue for infoshops & indie bookstores that want to stock up on zines. the zines that i have available for wholesale are indicated in the cataloague by yellow & green paypal buttons that ring up a wholesale price. orderers must pick up at least three copies of a given zine to use the wholesale pricing. if you have questions about this, please ask!

don't forget that spring distro subscriptions close at midnight on march 31, & will be mailed out in the first week of april. distro subscriptions consist of a selection of fifteen zines from the distro catalogue (an emphasis on newer items) & some crafty handmade surprises too. reception to the first subscription, mailed in january, has been really overwhelmingly positive. subscriptions cost $30 within the u.s. & $35 everywhere else. subscription orders received after march 31 will be mailed out in july, so act quick to get your springtime zine package!

learning to leave a paper trail zine distro.

paperzines @ 2008-02-19T12:59:00

2008-02-19T18:21:24Z

i launched this subscription program thing a few months ago through my distro (paper trail) & am now accepting orders for the spring subscriptions, which will be mailed out in the first week of april 2008. the image to the left is a sampling of what went into the winter packages. all subscribers get a selection of fifteen zines from the distro (including a couple that were made specifially & exclusively for subscribers) & some crafty handmade surprises--zipper bags, note cards, 1" pins. the feedback from the first round of subscribers has been really positive, with folks saying that the packages reinvigorated their love of zines. how amazing is that? it's just what i was hoping for.

perhaps more importantly, i run a distro & you can get a bunch of really good zines from it. i have a selection of close to 150 items from which to choose, mostly personal zines with a radical/d.i.y. slant, covering topics like reproductive health, paenting, mental health, abuse, bikes, crafting, recipes, death, feminism, trans issues, anti-racist work, sex work, punk rock, & a lot more. new zines are added to the catalogue on a weekly basis (thanks to so many folks putting out truly incredible zines these days). i also offer collections (newest items, bestsellers, & my own personal picks) for a discounted price. & everything is all postage-paid with a shopping cart so it's really easy to order. i accept cash & check too! & i also accept zines for distro consderation--just check out the submissions page.

learning to leave a paper trail

cross-posted like whoa. sorry.

paperzines @ 2008-02-05T22:00:00

2008-02-06T03:15:03Z

PAPER TRAIL DISTRO FEBRUARY NEWS

paper trail zine distro has been around for four & a half years now, & the catalogue has expanded to nearly 150 items. i specialize in carrying personal zines with a radical/d.i.y. focus. i have zines on topics including mental health, reproductive health, abuse, bikes, sex work, traveling, punk, death, crafting, recipes, & lot more!

some new items available in the last few weeks include "eyes of pearl" (hilarious & radically political stories from a woman coping with her sister's heroin addiction), "ghost pine" #11 (more day in the life stories & recollections of a punk rock youth from montreal), "mirror tricks" #2 (radical feminist tales & illustrations of working as a prostitute), "big hands" #5.5 (the special retrospective chumbawamba edition, which comes with a cassette discography), & "big hands" #6 (self-deprecating writing on dysfunctional thanksgivings, break-ups, writing, & moravian nomads).

i also offer subscriptions & collections, which enable a zine reader to get a little more bang for their buck. collections include new items, bestsellers, & my personal picks. a subscription is a seasonal package (now accepting orders for the april mailing) containing fifteen zines from the catalogue & some hand-crafted zine-related surprises (pins, posters, postcards, etc).

paper trail distro

MRS NOGGLE 10 IS OUT!!!!

2008-02-04T00:04:28Z

"another A-Z issue"! i love doing these kinda zines! where i pick a topic for every letter of the alphabet & write about it! This issue includes: "C is for Competition","G is for "Gwen Stefani","K is for Kurt Cobain","S is for Spoken Word", " T is for Tattoos","U is for Ugly' & much more!!!!

buy it here !!!

paperzines @ 2008-01-24T19:54:00

2008-01-25T01:00:39Z