As the chaos of the house move increases, I will be closing the Sea Green Zines Etsy shop from September 1st to September 10th so I can finally pack up my zines and mail stuff. If you want to get in any orders before September, now’s the time to do it!
Remember that September 1st my time is Australian time, so it will be closing sometime during the day on August 31st for US zine friends!
Hello, zine friends!
It’s only eight sleep until my big move, and my brain is pretty mush! (Who knew that mail redirections had to be so complicated. Thanks AusPost.) So what’s happening!
I’ve had the address up for a few days now, but I’ve put the mail redirection in, so it’s all go now! I won’t close the box until next week just to catch anything coming through before the redirection hits, but that’s not far away now, my friends. The redirection lasts for three months, so don’t worry if you’ve sent something and know it won’t arrive this week.
Paper Currency, my beloved project, a zine about zines, is complete! <3 I made the time to put it together, print, and sew all the contributor copies because they have been waiting long enough as it is. I will launch it properly when I'm settled in my new place.
The same goes for Don't Call Me Cupcake 8. 🙂
I think that's it for me now. Please feel free to remind me of anything I may be forgetting! I hope you all are doing well and have a wonderful week ahead!
San Anto Zine Fest applications are officially open!
The FIRST EVER SAZF will be held on Saturday, October 7th at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center Galeria from 12pm to 6pm. First time and out of town zinesters are encouraged to apply. Please refer to the link below for more information!
Happy Mail Monday will be on Tuesday this week, as I need to sleep off this fever.
Big hugs to you all!
San Anto Zine Fest applications are officially open!
The FIRST EVER SAZF will be held on Saturday, October 7th at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center Galeria from 12pm to 6pm. First time and out of town zinesters are encouraged to apply. Please refer to the link below for more information!
Congratulations to…
You’ve won a signed copy of Dark Echoes. Be sure to get in touch with me at theauthor@inkyblots.com
If you really had your heart set on a copy of my book, you can either pick it up on Amazon or keep in touch because I want to do more giveaways (and trades(?)) in the future!
Thursdays are usually review days here at SGZ, but this Thursday is a little bit special (if I do say so myself). It’s my birthday!
Instead of today’s review, I decided to put up a giveaway! I wasn’t sure what I wanted to give away, as I’ve had big trades and sold zines for a while now. Would my zines be a good prize. However, I remembered that there’s something I don’t talk about very much here…
My book! This is actually one of my books, but it’s the best one of the lot (I reckon). I’ve decided to give away one signed copy of this – and everyone worldwide is eligible! Geo-restrictions do not apply here, my friends. 🙂 So if you’d like to know what the book is all about, you can click here. If you’d like to enter to win a signed copy, follow on below…
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**If the Rafflecopter widget doesn’t work – and I suspect it won’t because WordPress doesn’t play nice with scripts – then you can CLICK HERE to enter**
Woooooo. Wow do I feel like things are chaotic right now. They probably aren’t as much as I think, but it’s hard to see the forest for the trees at the moment. What do I love most when things are feeling chaotic? Lists!
Here’s what’s happening, what my plans are, so on and so forth as they stand right now:
*I won’t be reviewing zines this week. I hate to do it, but my birthday is the 10th, which is Thursday, when I usually put up a review, so on and so forth. With everything going on, I’d really love to relax and not have to think about anything on the day. However…
*There will be a bit of a birthday giveaway to make up for it. ^_^
*I still don’t quite have a move date. The short story is there are a number of things that have to happen in order (A means B can happen, which then means C can happen) before we can move, which is why things keep being moved around and are confusing. Add in a little dispute as well, and not stressing is becoming increasingly difficult. That being said…
*I’ll be setting up my new post box next week! My current post office box is still good for this week and probably next (depending on where you’re sending from – US has been good for within two weeks, within Aus – well you know what a crap shoot that is), but if you send to 786 after that, you may hit the mail redirect stream. That should definitely be fine as well, but it may add some time onto things. If you’re at all doubtful, you can always email me or wait until the new address is up here on the blog.
Oh! I nearly forgot! My goodness, where has my mind gone…
*Don’t Call Me Cupcake 8 will launch next week, ink willing. It’s all about brains and moving house. With some weird things thrown in. And…
*Paper Currency will launch next week! I wanted to wait until I had the new post box for this one, so I am very sorry to everyone who is waiting for it. I am so, so, so excited, though! So much to enjoy along with zine reviews, and a gorgeous cover by Queer Content as well. SO EXCITED.
That’s me for now. Be sure to come back Thursday (or Wednesday, depending on your time zone) to check out the giveaway!
The world will forgive you for taking care of yourself. Or the world that matters.
A friend wrote that to me recently. They were helping me to relax about feeling bad. Why was I feeling bad? I was planning on completing a zine project and releasing it on the 17th. It didn’t matter that Wanderer had an MRI scheduled that day (he’s okay) and that I had to travel to Melbourne to see a neurologist the next day (I’m not awesome, but I can get better).
I hold myself to task for these things and get very disappointed when I don’t live up to my expectations.
The thing is that I am stressed. I am a little overwhelmed right now, and even though I certainly have the time to sit down with a zine and review it, I’m concerned that my exhaustion, my mood, and my stress may make that review less than that zine – or any zine – deserves from me. I respect that people are paying their hard-earned money to send me their zines, and I never want to give anything other than the best.
So I need to take this week off reviews. Just today and tomorrow. I’ll still be posting International Zine Month stuff. I’ll still have calls for submissions going up this weekend. But I can’t give zines the attention they deserve for a proper review this week. I will be right back to it next week with bells on.
I’m probably making a bigger deal out of this than it needs to be. I mean, what’s two days? Two reviews that will happen later instead of today and tomorrow? It almost feels egotistical to assume people would care to the extent that I need to put up this announcement.
I hope that my stress about it just goes to show how much I care about this blog, about zines, and about every one of you who reads this blog. That I respect and love what I do. Feel fortunate that I can do this and bring people some happiness on occasion.
So I do hope you’ll forgive me. It’s hard to lose my ‘winning’ streak of not missing a review day this year. But I won’t sacrifice quality for quantity. (Or self-competition.) Not in this.
Big hugs and loves of love from Oz,
Nyx
