Hello & Happy 2020!

Hello, hello, and hello zine friends! A belated Happy New Year to you all and so many good wishes to you all for the year to come!

I hope you all had a wonderful wrap up to the year before and have had an excellent stop into this new year and new decade! There’s something magical to me about a new year, with hopes and dreams given a bit more space and power than they might otherwise. Hold onto those hopes and dreams, my friends. Hold them tight and don’t let them go.

The end of 2019 and beginning of 2020 has brought to me some completely unexpected things, but I’m incredibly happy to say that they are good things. I wish I could share more, but I’m afraid there’s still too much wrapped up that I cannot share.

That being said, I have wonderful plans for this year. We all know how my plans tend to go, but I keep making them anyway. Haha. If everything goes well, there may be some overseas travel included, so crossing fingers…

I also have many dreams and plans for here on the blog, so please bear with me as I get ready and gear up for what’s to come. Sea Green Zines will be back in usual action this Monday.

Until next time, spread a little sunshine.

Once More With Feeling

Hello, dear and wonderful zine friends.

I want to thank you all for all of your patience and kindness while I have been dealing with a messy life and messier mental health. You have all been so incredibly kind without asking questions, without asking more, without demanding justification for me not keeping up with all of the things I had going.

It’s this kindness that has kept me going through the darkest of moments and helped me to not give up.

For that, I cannot possibly thank each and every one of you enough. I will be forever in your debt.

For a long time, I thought ‘just one day, just one week, just one… and then I’ll be fine’. Now I’ve taken a step back from such expectations and am simply taking things day by day. Thank you all for understanding as I learn how to carry on this way.

With that in mind, I make no big promises other than to do what I can as I can. And I simply say another heartfelt thank you and wish you all the very best in your world bubbles.

With love,

Nyx

Happy… Day?

Hello, hello, and hello once more, zine friends!

It’s been quite the silly pickle of a life here at the zine cave of late, that is for sure my dear friends. Then again, I’d rather have fun and give things a go than sit back and not over the mere possibility that I might fail. I mean, trying and failing is kind of what I do around here, but I have an absolute blast doing it. My only regret for this one is that I didn’t give you all the amazing zine reviews I wanted to.

But I can promise you one thing – there will be another month of zine reviews in the future.

This week has seen no mail but email variety come in, so there’s no happy mail video for this particular Monday. However, the day was beautiful and sunny, progress has been made on the aforementioned silly pickles, and there are silver linings to be found.

So here we are, friends. Another day, and a thought to share with you… It’s always hard to fail. It’s hard to lose track and get behind. But keep trying. Keep giving all you can. Because even failures and be beautiful and fun, and they make the successes all the more wonderful.

Until next time…

Two New Zines! What I’ve Been Up To

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Hello, zine friends! I’ve made some lemonade out of some recent lemons and spent some recovery time finishing two zines that I’m very proud of! Check out all the goodness.

As always, thank you for watching.

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Awesome Things/People Mentioned

*Iestyn – https://zinelove.wordpress.com/
https://www.instagram.com/_zinelove/

*Black Wolf – https://www.instagram.com/jenerahealy/

*Ken Bausert – https://www.instagram.com/passcribe/

*3310er – https://www.instagram.com/3310er/

*LP – https://www.instagram.com/lp.like.the.record/

*Ryan Pocket Thoughts – https://linktr.ee/_my_name_is_ryan_

*Rich of Feral Publication – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqkHGWfc44M5znpDg5adSog
https://www.feralpublications.com/

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My PO Box:

Jaime Nyx
PO Box 378
Murray Bridge, SA 5253
Australia

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You Can Find Me At:

seagreenzines@gmail.com

Sea Green Zines: https://seagreenzines.com
Link Tree: https://linktr.ee/seagreenzines

September: The Month of Zine Reviews!

Greetings from the zine cave!

I hope this post finds you well and enjoying the week. My week is just flying by with heaps and heaps to do – not the least of which is…

A Month of Zine Reviews!

Cue dramatic music.

Yes, my friends, I’ve mentioned it on YouTube, I’ve mentioned it on the podcast, and now I’m writing about it here. After all, this site is my virtual base of operations, so I should put a little somethin’ somethin’ on site when I make decisions like these.

As I mentioned elsewhere, there are more zines coming my way that are specifically for review. I don’t like the prospect of making people wait too long for a review even though I know I could take it a bit easier on myself. (I hear y’all. Truly.) It’s with that in mind that I thought, “Why not a month of zine reviews? Why not one per day for September?”

And here we are. Well, not quite yet, but September (and spring!) starts this Sunday, and I am busy making sure that you will get 30 zine reviews in 30 days.

The usual stuff is going to happen – namely Happy Mail Monday and weekend calls for submissions. Plus the usual zine reviews happening this week on Thursday and Friday.

So that’s all I wanted to say. I’m feeling daunted but excited. Plus a generous helping of happy about the prospect of bringing so much zine goodness to you next month.

Until next time!

Rain Delay

Okay, so it’s not a rain delay, but today was filled with a medical visit for Wanderer (he’s okay, thank goodness) and a bunch of errands. Happy Mail will happen tomorrow.

By way of apology for the delay, here’s a picture of my dogs cuddling. Hehe.

Vlog: Enter the Zine Cave – 2019 Office Tour

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-qiJHRbHOk&w=560&h=315]

I’ve finally done it! I’ve finally made an office tour video with the special Happy Wall feature I absolutely adore. Check out the Zine Cave.

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*Sticky Institute – http://www.stickyinstitute.com/
*The Screever Zine – http://thescreever.limitedrun.com/
*Alex Wrekk – https://www.instagram.com/alexwrekk/
*Stolen Sharpie Revolution – https://portlandbuttonworks.com/
*Coffee and People – https://fiveoclockzine.bigcartel.com/
*Latibule – https://linktr.ee/latibule_art
*Adam Gnade – https://pioneerspress.com/
*True Zine Marin
*Zinester Trading Cards – https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/iknowbilly
*(Black Wolf) Jenerations Beading – https://www.facebook.com/Jenerations2016
*Don’t Starve – https://store.steampowered.com/app/219740/Dont_Starve/
*Emily N3ver – https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/emilyn3ver
*Comic Prov – https://www.instagram.com/comicprov/
*Lady Beaver – https://www.instagram.com/ladybeaver/
*Steve Waldinger – https://www.instagram.com/stevewaldinger/
*God Save the Queer – https://linktr.ee/_godsavethequeer_
*JEM Hast – https://www.jemhast.com/
*Warglitter – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIhWqEQQ5lHcuG4cJOz3O9g

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My PO Box:

Jaime Nyx
PO Box 378
Murray Bridge, SA 5253
Australia

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You Can Find Me At:

seagreenzines@gmail.com

Link Tree: https://linktr.ee/seagreenzines

Feral Publication Reviews Missives From Murray Bridge & Paper Currency 1

Hello, dear zine friends! I’m so happy to share some ‘reviewer gets reviewed’ goodness with you today. Hehe. Feral Publication has reviewed my monthly life newsletter type zine Missives From Murray Bridge as well as Paper Currency 1!

And they are in handy dandy video form for your viewing pleasure.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQc09aSAaSY&w=560&h=315]
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvuwCDfD3fE&w=560&h=315]

If you haven’t checked out the Feral Publication YouTube channel before, I highly recommend it. There are a heap of zine reviews, the Anarchist Zinester Vlog series, travel vlogs, and even short films!

Thank you to Feral Publication for not only reading my zines but reviewing them as well!

Mini-Zine March? Oh, Dear…

Oh, dear dear dear.

That didn’t go very well.

First off, I’d like to say a huge thank you to Amber is Blue and Apples for guest reviewing during a very difficult time for me. I appreciate it more than words can say.

I decided 2019 wouldn’t be the year that I’d start doing a prompts list for Mini-Zine March thanks to there being so much going on already. I’ve already talked about how things went wrong last month, so I won’t go over it again, but I didn’t get to do anywhere near all the things I wanted to do for the month.

Alas, that’s just the way it works sometimes.

The beat goes on, dear zine friends, and what doesn’t happen in March can happen in April or May. 🙂 I still have a lot of plans, and I’m excited to be able to share them with you soon.

I hope you all had a wonderful month and will have a wonderful month ahead. No Happy Mail came this week, so until next time…

Technical Difficulties

I’m beginning to think 2019 really doesn’t like me.

At about 4pm last night, I started having trouble with this site. By 8pm, I gave up on it coming back up in any sort of decent time

The good news(?) is that it wasn’t the SGZ site itself. There was nothing here that broke nor anything I specifically had to fix. The hosting site itself went down. While that’s not great to have your site host go down, I’m just happy to not have to wade my way through code this morning.

Anyway, knock on wood, I will be back this afternoon with a lovely new zine review. <3