A quiet day for these pages because:

1) I continue to research nominees for upcoming Faned Awards and prepare a new issue of THE FANACTICAL FANACTIVIST to promote same.

2) I am busy contacting authors for the three writers workshops I am moderating at VCON 38. Already have a full slate of ‘newbies’ to submit manuscripts to the authors but people are welcome to ask to be added to the waiting list. Sometimes people drop out at the last minute and the first individuals in the waiting list can be plugged in. See VCON current status if you are interested.

3) Have to start thinking about my next FAPA and eAPA contributions, not to mention my next SPACE CADET.

You can get a lot of fanac done when you’re retired!

NOTE: I just added info re the upcoming July 28th VCON Summer Picnic and more info on the Writers Workshops to the VCON current status page.

1) Added 1988 CUFF Trip Report — Taral Wayne under CUFF.

2) Yesterday I wrote four zines reviews, striving to keep each under 50 words so that the whole-mini-review could be absorbed in a single glance. Today I decided ‘Not good enough!’ and rewrote all four with the format of first listing contents and then commenting in some length on same which requires the reader to click on the title of each post in order to ‘read more’ i.e. read the review in full. I will adopt this format from now on.

3) Today I am actually researching my own site looking for potential nominees for the upcoming Faned Awards. See? This site not entirely useless after all.

Yea! Thanks to Jean Hollis Weber for adding sidebar to home page.

1) Wrote 4 capsule descriptions of latest published zines ‘BROKEN TOYS’, ‘ONE SWELL FOOP’, ‘OSFS STATEMENT’ AND ‘BCSFAZINE,’ and placed in sidebar.

2) Added ‘What’s Happening?’ Latest News Current Status pages for BCSFA and the Faned Awards.

1) Added “Links to ‘WHAT’S HAPPENING?’ latest news update pages” line in the home page ‘welcome’ section. So far points to VCON. Will add AURORA Awards, reviews of newly published zines, BCSFA & WCSFA as soon as I’ve done up their pages. And maybe other items in the future.

Not much action today, as I’m off to the monthly VCON ConCom committee meeting. Happy to say the writers workshops I’m in charge of have a full slate (12) participants submitting manuscripts. But if you’re interested contact me at rgraeme[at]shaw.ca and I’ll put you on the waiting list (so far none on list). Last year three people dropped out at the last minute so the first three people on the waiting list got to participate. No promises this year, just possibilities. NOTE: to qualify, you must be A) serious about writing, and B) a paid-up member of VCON (see ‘What’s Happening?’ VCON link above for details on membership rates and how to sign up).

1) Added BCSFAzine (#195) August 1989 — Editor R. Graeme Cameron, Under SF Clubs/Orgs BCSFA.

2) Added BCSFAzines (#300-330) edited by John C.H. Wong, under SF Clubs/Orgs BCSFA.

3) Added assorted documents to History of WCSFA Archives including, 1981 Archive rules proposal, Gerald Boyko Archivist report #4 1981, transfer receipts re Gerald passing on archive to me, and 4 of my State of the Archive Reports from 1996.

1) Added links from onsite Zines index page to the various zine pages.

2) Added 1952 Canadian Fan Directory published by CSFA, under Canadian Science Fiction Association.

3) Added VCON 1 ASSORTED DOCUMENTS page with advert poster, invite letter to GoH Ursula K. LeGuin, Sun Newspaper review of VCON 1, and Province Newspaper review by Michael Walsh of VCON 1, under SF Conventions, VCON.

4) Added first two BCSFAzines (#193, 194) edited by R. Graeme Cameron, under SF Clubs/Orgs, BCSFA.

5) Added BCSFAzines (#331-429) 2000-2009 edited by Garth Spencer, under SF Clubs/Orgs, BCSFA.

This is my first blog posting. My thanks to Jean Weber for converting my home page into a blog and for having the patience to explain to me how to post. I really am extraordinarily computer illiterate. No intuitive logic instincts at all.

Be that as it may, today I accomplished:

1) Added IMPULSE (Nov 89, Jan 1990) — edited by T. MASON, C. MAGNUSSEN, & K. BRAITHWAITE, a frequent MonSFFA Newsletter, under SF Clubs/Orgs, MonSFFA.

2) Added WARP (V.2#1) 1988 — edited by MICHAEL MASELLA & KEVIN HOLDEN, the major MonSFFA Newsletter, under SF Clubs/Orgs, MonSFFA.

3) Added REQUIEM (V.1#1) Septembre 1974 — edited by NORBERT SPEHNER, later became SOLARIS, under SF Zines, Quebec Zines.

1) Added four documents concerning UBC SFFEN: 1968 club application form, 1970 letter from Isaac Asimov, proposal for 1971 SF Festival, and minutes of first two club meetings in October of 1968.

2) Added MARCHING TO VICTORIA (1996) by Garth Spencer, (a history of Victoria clubs), under Club/orgs SFAV, History AND under Fan History, Garth.

3) Tidied up SF Zines menu tree.

4) Added À BAS (#0) 1954 — edited by Boyd Raeburn, under SF Zines Historic.

5) Added MOHDZEE (#1) 1948 — edited by Fred Hurter Jr, under SF Zines, Historic.

6) Added a question and answer to the FAQ regarding the matter of who has responsibility for the contents of everything uploaded to this site.

7) Added a question and answer to the FAQ as to whether a non-Canadian zine can be hosted at this site.

8) Added a question and answer to the FAQ as to whether fan fiction will be hosted at this site.

9) Added UP THE TUBE (SFAVzine V.1#1) 1978 – edited by Stan G. Hyde, under SF Clubs/Orgs SVAVzines.

1) Published three articles “Why publish a fanzine?” “How to create a fanzine?” and “Where do I publish?” under the incredibly long heading under SF Zines on the main menu.

2) Added complete set of UNDER THE OZONE HOLE (#1-19) 1992-2007 — edited by John Willcox Herbert amd Karl Johanson, under SF Zines.

3) Added latest BCSFAzine (#482) July 2013 — edited by Felicity Walker, under SF Clubs/Orgs, BCSFA.