The K/S Press/Issues 011-020

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==The K/S Press 11 (July 1997)==
* contains 24 pages
* has LoCs for About Last Night, Beyond Setarcos, And a Bottle of Rum, Comes the Rain, Come With Me, Doorways, Loneliness Has a Companion, Echoes of Forever, The Perfect Gift, Forests of the Night, Personal Property, Sacrifices of the Heart, Standing in the Shadows, Summer of Love, The Vulcan Foundling, Domestic Affections, Screw You in the zines Thrust, Way of the Warrior #3, T'hy'la #4, #9, First Time #17, #33, #38, Naked Times #8, #17, Scattered Stars #4, Charisma #1, Out of Bounds: (Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves), see those pages
* there is a thank you to a fan who donated many zines to the brand-new K/S Library
* a fan notes she has been a fan since 1987, got into K/S when she accidentally ordered an issue of As I Do Thee, and now has over 1000 Star Trek zines in her collection
* a fan writes a detailed complaint about ordering zines from a well-known publisher. She hadn't received the zines in over a year, and had only gotten what she considered a very nasty letter in responses to questions. The editor inserts: "Anybody else have any information? We know this type of thing has happened to others."
* a fan writes that she likes all K/S fiction except those that deal with housekeeping and death
* there is an announcement that Chris Soto has passed away
* the editors say: 
* a fan writes a short bio and adds the address of her website, to which the editor inserts: 
* from a fan: 
* a fan writes of a zine series: 
* a German fan writes: 
==The K/S Press 12 (August 1997)==
* contains 35 pages
* has LoCs for Brothers in Time, Fascinating Art, Holding On, Into the Light, Lovely Captain Ariel and Her Vulcan Squeeze, Never and Always Lovers, "None So Blind", Portrait of Promise, "The Power of Suggestion", Quirk of Fate, Reaching Eden, A Soul in Chains, Standing Watch, Tableau, Together, Turning Point , Catalysis from the zines Amazing Grace #3, First Time #39, #42, #45, #46, Kaleidoscope #6, T'hy'la #18, #19, Scattered Stars #9, First Light, and Naked Times #14, see those pages
* the K/S Library reports it now has 37 volumes and thanks fans for their donations
* several fans write memorials for Chris Soto
* a con report for Closet Con
* there are numerous Shore Leave con reports, which contains descriptions of the famous "Dancing Green and Pink Penii, descriptions of the dual pink and green penis cakes, remarks that there were over 50 people at the K/S Press room party, and: 
* a description of the dancing green and pink penii: 
* a fan from Ireland describes her favorite kinds of stories: 
* a fan says: 
* a fan writes: 
* a fan says: 
==The K/S Press 13 (September 1997)==
* contains 48 pages
* has LoCs for After the Rain, Call Me Master, Captain of My Dreams, A Day in the Life, A Deltan Dilemma, A Doctor's Tale, Foresight, Egyptian Dreams, Fascinating Art, Fruits and Nuts, Give Him Some Rope, Holding On, The Hunt, Trial by Ordeal, Into the Light, Just Desserts, Lovely Captain Ariel and Her Vulcan Squeeze, None So Blind, Of Nights and Pawns, The Power of Suggestion, On Being a Starship Captain, Portrait of Promise, Reaching Eden, Strong Together, The Sun Rising, Tiger by the Tail, Turning Point, Untouched, Winter Term, Worlds Apart, Homeless Hearts, Wakening from the zines First Time #46, Scattered Stars #9, The Voice #3, KaleidoScope #6, T'hy'la #4, #17, #18, Classified Assignments #1, Within the Mirror #11, In the Wilderness #2, Worlds Apart, and Twin Destiny #2, see those pages
* was the first anniversary edition
* there are many, some quite lengthy, con reports for Closet Con
* there are several photos of the Dancing Penises from Shore Leave as well as some art by Shelley Butler
* a fan writes an essay on sexual fidelity and compares and contrasts two stories, "Homeless Hearts" by Michelle Arvizu in T'hy'la #18 and "Wakening" by Vivian Gates in Twin Destiny #2
* a fan proposes a K/S con: 
* fan talks of her introduction to K/S: 
* a fan says of death stories: 
* a fan writes a Closet Con report and mentions that: 
* a fan describes the Dancing Penises: 
* a fan reminisces: 
* a fan bemoans that there will be no more Closet Cons: 
* a fan who went to Closet Con writes: 
* a fan at Closet Con writes: 
* a fan writes: 
* a fan comments on the differences between K/S in the UK and in the US, citing The Voice series of zines as examples: 
* a fan comments on LoCs: 
* a fan writes: 
* a fan asks for help in locating a story that involved Kirk and Spock in a cabin, the line: "I don’t want to go back there, Jim," and stale crackers. The editor, who typed the letter up, inserts: 
* an English fan writes: 
* a fan writes: 
* a fan writes of her K/S journey: 
* a fan talks of visibility: 
* red faces at the printer: 
* one of the editors praises the other: 
* one of the editors has added some additions to The K/S Library, including: 
==The K/S Press 14 (October 1997)==
* contains 29 pages
* has LoCs for After the Rain, Call Me Master, Captain of My Dreams, Holding On, A Deltan Dilemma, Fruits and Nuts, Obligations, One Foot in Paradise, Reaching Eden, Portrait of Promise, Strong Together, Turning Point, Beside the Wells, Moonlighting, The Birthday Blues: 7 Year Itch, The Rep, The Ultimate Friend from the zines First Time #46, Scattered Stars #9, Kaleidoscope #6, Styx and Stones, T'hy'la #18, Daring Attempt #5, see those pages
* con reports for Shore Leave and Closet Con
* the editor has a lengthy description of trying to print some homoerotic art at her print shop and getting into a confrontation (fairly mild) with the manager on duty
* the editors write: 
* the editor shares her K/S zine database (here). On it are 454 zines: 
* a fan is distraught: 
==The K/S Press 15 (November 1997)==
* contains 40 pages
* has LoCs for All This Sweet Work, Baby, Almost Legends, Beside the Wells, Doppleganger, Fathers, A Dream Walking, First Light, Go On, Give Us a Smile, Holding On, Homeless Hearts, If Kirk Had a Holodeck, Imaging Flames, The Innocent, In the Gold of the Morning, Into the Light, The Lorath, Lovely Captain Ariel and Her Vulcan Squeeze, "None So Blind", One Sundered Soul, Or Was It I?, Portrait of Promise, Proximity Breeds Contretemps, Psychic Storm, Quirk of Fate, Talisman, This Deadly Innocence, To Journey's End, Turning Point, Vigil, When Rain Comes, By Worlds Divided in the zines T'hy'la #18, #19, Charisma #7, #12, #19, First Time #28, #45, #46, Naked Times #3, #9, #20, #26, #27, First Light, Kaleidoscope #3, #6, Charisma #4, #9, Final Frontier #1 (the latter a lengthy review of Cynthia Drake's fiction), see those pages
* there are about twelve explicit limericks written by fans
* there is an announcement of some more zines for The K/S Library
* a listing of all known fan fic that deals with Tarsus IV; see that article
* a zine editor writes: 
* from a long-time fan and zine editor: 
* a fan tries to get her head around what defines K/S: 
* a fan comments on all the discussion about whether the actors "approved" of K/S: 
==The K/S Press 16 (December 1997)==
* contains 29 pages
* has LoCs for Angel Unaware, Beginnings in Retrospect, Burning, Distrust, Coming of Age, Distrust, In Spite of Consequences, Five Days, Just the Way the Story Goes, Needles, Portraits, The Rematch, Strong Together, Replay, Snowfire, Within the Prism, Warlords, To Serve from the zines Out of Bounds Overflow, Galactic Discourse #3, As I Do Thee #15, T'hy'la #1, #18, First Time #17, #46, Way of the Warrior #3, Warlords, Naked Times #7, see those pages
* a new librarian for The K/S Library is announced. There are about 100 zines in the library with hopes to reach 300.
* there is an ad for Escapade
* includes a con report for ZebraCon October 31-November 2, 1997 where the convention skit was by Paula Smith (a musical called "Revolution 9 from Outer Space" based on the K/S mirror universe novel Revolution by Madelien Lee. The play includes this bit at the end: 
* fan writes: 
* a fan says she considers a story K/S if it has these qualities: 
* a fan writes: 
* a fan asks writers if they like writing sex scenes, are they difficult to do? She adds: 
* a writer says 
* one fan is in a veritable lockdown at home, and her letter demonstrates some fans' difficulty in obtaining K/S materials and the secrecy it entails: 
==The K/S Press 17 (January 1998)==
* contains 34 pages
* has LoCs for Call from the Past, The Consortium Series, Firewalker, Foresight, Forests of the Night, The K/S Scrolls, 
'Little Sorrows", Fruits and Nuts, Give Him Some Rope, Lost Night, The Power of Suggestion, Of Nights and Pawns, The Prodigal Vulcan, Reaching Eden, Sweet Sorrow, The Sting, Untouched, The Thought That Counts, Warlords, Time Passage, Two Slaves in the zines Scattered Stars #10, Naked Times #12, #15, #16, #17, #18, #20, KaleidoScope #6, First Time #17, #46, As I Do Thee #3, #4, Charisma #17, see those pages
* includes a ballot for Philon
* some limericks, including this one: "Spock and Jim went up the hill, To fetch a pail of Dilithium. Spock fell down and got delirious, Then Jim and Spock got down and serious."
* Heartbeat bios
* a fan tells of getting burned when she sent money for zines to several agents, Bill Hupe, Peg Kennedy, a press [P F], and an author [A F B].
* tips about how to disguise K/S zines in the mail
* a long excerpt from Charlotte Frost's zine Portraits
* the editors write: 
* discussion about what makes a story K/S and the conflict that seems to have arisen on the subject: 
* gay and slash sex scenes?: 
* Do fans need Shatner's approval of K/S? -- one fan says: 
* realism and K/S?: 
==The K/S Press 18 (February 1998)==
* contains 29 pages
* has LoCs for Angel Unaware, Anchorage, Call from the Past, Coming of Age, Foresight, For the Man Who Has Everything, Echoes, Endymion, Give Him Some Rope, The Heart Has Its Logic, He Who Loves Last, His is the Only Music, Hide and Seek, Holding On, In Any Reality, Joseph's Brother, Journey's End, Lovely Captain Ariel and Her Vulcan Squeeze, Just for Old Times' Sake, Kirk's Decision, Magic Heart, The K/S Scrolls, Of Nights and Pawns, "None So Blind", Penetration, Poses, Two Blind Mice, "Reminiscence", Replay, Unicorn Horn, Steadfast, Waiting, We Learn by Doing from the zines As I Do Thee #9, #11, Out of Bounds Overflow, Scattered Stars #7, #10, KaleidoScope #6, Charisma #4, Naked Times #22, #25, First Time, #6, #13, #41, #46, T'hy'la #17, Obsc'zine #1, see those pages
* some lengthy excerpts from "His Only Music" in First Time, "Anchorage" from As I Do Thee #9 
* the editors write: 
* an age statement/disclaimer from the editors: 
* a fan writes: 
* a fan writes of a con memory: 
* a fan writes: 
* a zine editor and reader try to come to a solution to keep her K/S zines from being confiscated by Customs (UK to US): 
* MUCH discussion as to what makes a story K/S: 
* what makes a story K/S?: 
* a fan artist, S B, writes of her experience at WorldCon: 
* online fic vs zine fic and "important understanding": 
* slash and the real actor... a fan recounts a negative comment about K/S made by William Shatner at a con and writes: 
* discussion about songtape videos, especially the ones by Chris Soto and Mary van Deusen: 
* the letterzine's editor introduces the idea of "The K/S Press" making their own songtapes, the ones that become K/S Press Songtapes: 
==The K/S Press 19 (March 1998)==
* contains 30 pages
* has LoCs for And Yet Afraid, "Babes in the Woods", A Different Obsession, Blue Courage, Five Days, The Flavor of Gold, Green Dreams, Noon Tomorrow, The Healing, Letting Go, One Flesh, One Small Berry, Odds and Abbs, The Prize, Spur of the Moment, Stay Till Morning, Rites, Tango, Unfinished Business, Surveillance, Taaz Avine, The Tirizan, Waiting for Rain in the zines As I Do Thee #6, #11, Kaleidoscope #7, First Time #13, #14, #17, #18, #35, #36, #37, Alien Brothers, The Price and the Prize, In the Wilderness #2, Twin Destiny #1, see those pages
* a fan writes: "If you want to know what K/S is, read the 20-some years of zines!"
* this issue includes a missing page from T'hy'la #18 from the story "Distrust"
* the editor adds some brief warnings to some zine titles in The K/S Library as she received a zine back with a note from a fan who said it wasn't the sort of story she wanted to read
* a fan writes that for a story to be K/S, Kirk or Spock has to tell the other one that he loves him. And that what matters is how: 
* a fan says: 
* a fan writes: 
* a fan states: 
==The K/S Press 20 (April 1998)==
* contains 34 pages
* has LoCs from" Babes in the Woods", Before I Die, Blind Fool, Bright Star, Catharsis, Coming of Age, Courts of Honor, Enterprising Tours, The Heart is Forever, In the Beginning, Empire Reflections, A Private Obsession, From Rags to Riches, Stay Till Morning, Still Waters, A Study in Green, Sure Thing, The Taking, A View from the Tower, When Johnny Comes Marching Home from the zines Coming of Age, KaleidoScope #1, #7, First Time #7, #23, #47, KSX, As I Do Thee #12, Daybreak, Dreams of the Sleepers, The Fifth Hour of Night, Daring Attempt #3, and Broken Images, see those pages
* a fan celebrates K/S Day by listening to Star Trek: The Lost Episode: 
* another fan celebrates K/S Day: 
* more celebrating: 
* another fan's celebration: 
* a fan contemplates the definition of K/S: 
* some really interesting stats on online K/S and zine K/S: 
* more stats: 
* about online and print fic: 
* a fan disagrees with the above statement, citing among other things, the definition of "published": 
* regarding the appeal of newsgroups: 
* is more K/S better, especially when it's at the mercy of mundanes?: 
* a fan is wondering about whether certain people are predisposed to some fannish interests: 
* a fan is wondering about author intent and the morality of reading gen as slash: 
* there is some progress on The K/S Press Songtapes: 
==References==
Category:1997Category:1998Category:Star Trek TOS Slash Zines