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Southern Fandom Confederation Bulletin Volume 6, No. 5: July, 1996 Southern Fandom Confederation Contents Ad Rates The Carpetbagger......................................................................1 Type Full-Page Half-Page 1/4 Page Treasurer's Report.................................................................... 3 Fan $25.00 $12.50 $7.25 More Convention Reports....................................................... 4 Pro $50.00 $25.00 $12.50 Southern Fandom on the Web................................................ 5 Mad Dog's Southern Convention Listing..............................6 Southern Fanzines.................................................................... 8 Addresses Southern Clubs.......................................................................10 SFC/DSC By-laws................................................................. 13 Physical Mail: Letters......................................................................................14 President Tom Feller, Box 13626, Jackson, MS 39236-3626 Ruth Shields helped with the proofreading, but the editor is fully responsible for any typos. The cover is from the SFC Vice-President Bill Francis, P.O. Box 1271, files I inherited from Sue Francis. I do not know the name Brunswick, GA 31521 and address of the artist. Secretary-Treasurer Judy Bemis, 1405 Waterwinds Policies CT,Wake Forest, NC 27587 The Southern Fandom Confederation Bulletin WebMeister Chad Childers, 4535 Mead, (SFCB) Vol. 6, No. 5, July, 1996, is the official Dearborn, MI 48126 publication of the Southern Fandom Confederation (SFC), a not-for-profit literary organization and information J. R. Madden, 7515 Sheringham Avenue, Baton > clearinghouse dedicated to the service of Southern Science Rouge, LA 70808-5762 Fiction and Fantasy Fandom. The SFCB is edited by Thomas R. "Tom" Feller and is published four times per Jo Peshek, 1198 St. Tammany Avenue, Slidell, LA year. Membership in the SFC is $10 annually, running 70460 from DeepSouthCon to DeepSouthCon. A club or convention membership is $50 annually. Donations are Ruth Shields, 1410 McDowell Road, Jackson, MS welcome. All checks should be made payable to the 39204 Southern Fandom Confederation. Permission is granted to reprint all articles, lists, and Electronic Mail: flyers so long as the author and the SFCB are credited. Tom Feller [email protected] All art is copyrighted by the artist, unless otherwise Bill Francis [email protected] specified. An exception is granted in the case of art that Juciy Bemis [email protected] J. R. Madden [email protected] appears in a convention flyer. Chad Childers [email protected] The SFCB is also available for trades, published Ruth Shields [email protected] contributions, and letters of comment. Deadline for issue #6 is October 1,1996. WorldWideWeb: - The editor encourages electronic submission of SFC http://www.stilyagi.org/cons/sfc.hinil lengthy written material. If you wish to use the Internet, Tom Feller http://pages.prodigy.coni/trfeUer/cover.htxn send the article as electronic mail. If you wish to send the Chad Childers http://msen.com/~chad/ J. R. Madden http://hoxne.aol.com/jnnaddog editor a diskette, his computer ONLY takes the 3.5” MS-DOS format. His wordprocessor is Amipro 3.0. If Fax: you're not sure what all this means, get in touch with him Tom Feller (601)362-7961 to work out a solution. Voice Mail: Tom Feller (601)957-5266, Box 9571273 The Southern Fandom Confederation, Vol. 6, No. 5 The Carpetbagger by Tom Feller 4/26-28: BeachCon/DeepSouthCon 34 Feller!" Presumably, this was because the Southern Fandom I was working in Jacksonville, FL, the week before the Press Alliance information in the previous bulletin was convention and arrived at the hotel about 11 AM, Friday. incorrect As usual, no one took Guy seriously. Bill Francis and I Marcia McCoy immediately spotted me and pressed me into stayed on as President and Vice-President but Susan Stockell helping set up the art show. After a few hours, I left to buy stepped down as Secretary-Treasurer and Judy Bemis took her goodies for the DSC 35 room party, which we opened about 9 post Judy originally comes from the North-East but now lives PM. The party had a steady stream of visitors, but never in North Carolina after living in Florida for several years. She became crowded. Most of the members seemed tired from was my division head at the Orlando worldcon. To my relief, no Friday's travel, so we closed about 11. We still had food left one objected that her candidacy was part of a NESFA conspiracy over, so I decided to hold another party the following night. to infiltrate and control Southern fandom. There were several parties Saturday. Chattacon started first No one opposed Birmingham in their bid for the 1998 DSC. by holding a brunch from 11 AM to 2 PM that day. We ran ours Bill Francis announced there would be a Son of BeachCon bid from 7 to 9 PM and then visited the others. First, there was a for the DSC for 1999. DSC bid party: Birmingham in 1998. Then, there were three Toni Weiskopf gave us a progress report on the history of Worldcon bid parties: Australia in 1999, Chicago in 2000, and Southern fandom project She hopes to have it ready by June 30 Philadelphia in 2001. Earlier in the day, Naomi Fisher received and handed out some more assignments to a few of us. She was the Rubble Award, which goes to the frm who has done the most especially interested in publishing fannish art. TO Southern fandom. She is a gourmet cook and has helped Southern fans gain weight and add inches to their waistlines. 4/29-5/23: That night she catered the Australia party. Although the DSC is I went to a seminar at the post office on the new bulk mailing a small convention, it has a high percentage of fens who vote on regulations. A few years ago, I bought a third-class bulk mailing the Worldcon site. I got two more trading cards at the Chicago permit to save on postage, which came in handy when I became party, Joe Haldeman and Barbara Hambly. The Philadelphia bid president of the SFC. There will be several major changes. is doing something similar, only with postcards of Benjamin First, I will take the SFC Bulletins to the post office in trays Franklin in a science fiction setting. Constellation (Huntsville, rather than bags. Second, the state and mixed state classification AL) also had a party. The hotel was so spread out that we got will be replaced by Automated Area Distribution Center our exercise walking from party to party. 1 ran my SFC table during the day. Convention Facts My neighbors were initially Electrical Name: DeepSouthCon 34/BeachCon Kubla-Khan New Orleans SF&F Festival Eggs and Philadelphia in 2001. Later Tim Illingworth asked Samanda Jeudd Date: April 24-26 May 24-26 June 28-30' and me to donate portions of our spaces Site: Jekyll Inn-Best Western Days Inn-Airport Radisson-Airport to the Boston in 2001 bid. We agreed, and he set up a bid table. City: Jekyll Island Nashville Kenner (New Orleans) The Jekyll Inn is a beach resort on Stale: Georgia the Atlantic Ocean, and the weather was Tennessee Louisiana beautiful. The timing could not have Attendance: 250 200 700 been better, as a severe storm came through the area the following Monday. Guests: Harry Turtledove Charles Fontenay Elizabeth Mochi Jack Haldeman Andrew Offutt George Alec Effinger I don't recall anyone wearing a hall Peggy Ranson Darryl Elliott David Lee Anderson costume. Most people adopted standard Joe Siclari Howard Devore Aaron Allston warm weather resort clothing. The Edie Stem Bradley Denton convention canceled the costume Barbara Delaplace Barbara Hambly John E. Johnston contest, because by 6 PM Saturday there James Hogan was only one entry, Mike Stone. Peggy Ranson At the SFC business meeting, Guy Lillian started by yelling "Impeach Page 1 The Southern Fandom Confederation, Vol. 6, No. 5 (AADC) and mixed AADC. Third, and most important, I must I've been thinking about his comment ever since. In my case, have my mailing list, certified annually for correct zip codes. Ruth Shields introduced me to fanzine fandom. Then I started This can be done several ways. One is to take the mailing list to to edit Smart-Ash, the clubzine of the Chitnneyville Fantasy and the post office and have them verify it at the cost of. 17 cents per Science Fiction Society (CFSFS). I studied the zines that would address. Another is to purchase zip code verification software. trade with us and learned what I liked and did not like. When CFSFS went into hibernation, I published my own zine The 5/24-26: Kubla-Khan Reasonable Freethinker, later just the Freethinker. I tried to Friday, I drove up to Nashville while listening to Oswald's make the zine one that I would like to read. Enough fans seem Tale by Norman Mailer, a biography of Lee Harvey Oswald. I to agree with my tastes to encourage me to continue publishing. got to Briley Parkway without difficulty, but found there were In addition, Fve tried to be a decent letterhack, although I'm no two exits off 1-40 and took the wrong one. I went all the way to Hany Warner. For a price of a postage stamp and the effort it Opryland before turning around. Fortunately, it was easy to find takes to write a letter of comment, Hany is on the mailing list of once I got going in the right direction. virtually every science fiction fanzine. By publishing my own I had no difficulty registering with both the hotel and the zine and attempting to write letters, I'm on a fair number of con. I noticed we were sharing the hotel with a "bop" group. mailing lists myself. Yet I'm certainly not a major fanzine fan, Their interest was dancing to swing era music.