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National Fantasy Fan, v. 4, issue 1, January 1945

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from 5,000 words up, which you consider good enough for perusal yet are too long for the regular fanzine use, get them out and have them ready to send in when the call goes forth.

Incidentally, please write in and suggest a name for this Chain magazine. Do NOT suggest "Beyond"; that is the name the English boys are using for theirs.

Fifth, there have been a number of suggestions that we should publish some sort of an advertising medium for members who have fan stuff they wish to sell, swap, buy and so on. We need your comments on whether such a magazine is really needed; and lots of idea son how to handle the financial end of it -- should we charge for the space used in your ads and give the mag away; or give the space free and charge for the mag; or what? Croutch suggests that if we do decide to have such a medium, we call it the FAN ADVERTISER. Comments are desired.

Sixth, there have been several suggestions that we have a Manuscript Bureau, to which authors, poets and artists could send material not otherwise designed for some specific magazine, and that editors desiring material could draw from this pool, as well as sending in things they think are good but cannot themselves use. This is particularly desired by some of our Servifen who want to keep doing things when they have time, but are not directly in touch with enough editors to handle their entire output. Comments and suggestions, please.

Croutch, the indefatigable suggester, things we should make an effort to get discs cut by the professional authors, artists and editors, on subjects related to their crafts, to add to our collection of fan voices. We have one marvellous start in that direction -- in the discs of the Heinlein speech which Daugherty cut at the Denvention.

By the way, have YOU cut a disc with a short biog. of yourself and your fan history, and sent it to Los Angeles, where the library of these recordings is being kept? We want everyone's voice recorded for the Fan Archives. If you haven't a place in your own city, try to remember to cut one when you go to some other city where such equipment is available.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT FROM VICE PRESIDENT TUCKER: The 1943 - 1944 Book List (Walter Liebscher is compiling it), will be offered as an NFFF Pamphlet, free to all members, and will be out soon. It will be a listing of Books published in those years, of a Fantasy, a Science Fiction or a Weird nature; with a short synopsis of each.

Don't forget to write often, letters of suggestions, criticism, or praise. The first we must have if we are to grow into the sort of organization YOU want it to be; the second we can take; the third -- well, after all, we are only human.

Love, as always,
Evans
President, the N. F. F. F.

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from 5,000 words up, which you consider good enough for perusal yet are too long for the regular fanzine use, get them out and have them ready to send in when the call goes forth. Incidentally, please write in and suggest a name for this Chain magazine. Do NOT suggest "Beyond"; that is the name the English boys are using for theirs. Fifth, there have been a number of suggestions that we should publish some sort of an advertising medium for members who have fan stuff they wish to sell, swap, buy and so on. We need your comments on whether such a magazine is really needed; and lots of idea son how to handle the financial end of it -- should we charge for the space used in your ads and give the mag away; or give the space free and charge for the mag; or what? Croutch suggests that if we do decide to have such a medium, we call it the FAN ADVERTISER. Comments are desired. Sixth, there have been several suggestions that we have a Manuscript Bureau, to which authors, poets and artists could send material not otherwise designed for some specific magazine, and that editors desiring material could draw from this pool, as well as sending in things they think are good but cannot themselves use. This is particularly desired by some of our Servifen who want to keep doing things when they have time, but are not directly in touch with enough editors to handle their entire output. Comments and suggestions, please. Croutch, the indefatigable suggester, things we should make an effort to get discs cut by the professional authors, artists and editors, on subjects related to their crafts, to add to our collection of fan voices. We have one marvellous start in that direction -- in the discs of the Heinlein speech which Daugherty cut at the Denvention. By the way, have YOU cut a disc with a short biog. of yourself and your fan history, and sent it to Los Angeles, where the library of these recordings is being kept? We want everyone's voice recorded for the Fan Archives. If you haven't a place in your own city, try to remember to cut one when you go to some other city where such equipment is available. IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT FROM VICE PRESIDENT TUCKER: The 1943 - 1944 Book List (Walter Liebscher is compiling it), will be offered as an NFFF Pamphlet, free to all members, and will be out soon. It will be a listing of Books published in those years, of a Fantasy, a Science Fiction or a Weird nature; with a short synopsis of each. Don't forget to write often, letters of suggestions, criticism, or praise. The first we must have if we are to grow into the sort of organization YOU want it to be; the second we can take; the third -- well, after all, we are only human. Love, as always, Evans President, the N. F. F. F.