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Australian Rozie at the MCA Zine Fair

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It’s over. I finally made a zine, printed it and sold it at a zine fair. The MCA Zine Fair was great, there were so many creative, crafty and interesting people running stalls. There was a big crowd attending as well. I didn’t sell that many zines to complete strangers, mainly it was friends and acquaintances that took pity on me. I also ended up giving away some to people or swapping them with other zinesters at the fair. What could I do better next time? Have a less busy, more eye-catching cover and preferably in colour. Hey it’s not my fault I was made redundant and couldn’t use the colour copier at work for free I had to pay for the copying (so I only had 30 made)! I enjoyed sharing the table with Aliza and her Malaysian food zine, Yum! It was very popular with the mature age zinesters at the MCA. It was also great to share with Pony & Mrs BJ (btw should I be spelling your name Beccy or Becky?). They had a lot of zine action to sell and a lady from the MCA Education dept was particularly interested in Horse and Hound (Mantis & Yensher’s teenage diaries c.1990). Anyway, if you came down, it was great to see you there, if you didn’t, maybe I will put the zine online or maybe I won’t.