The Professionals - Zine, Author and Story Listings, Reviews and Recommendations

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22nd January, 2011 - see Site Updates page

New Pros Zine Published!
Gryphon Press has published a new Pros zine - Septet, an anthology of stories by O.Yardley. It includes sequels to her two most recent zine novels, A Lovesome Thing and Two Lovers, as well as five other stories (forming the septet). It's 95 pages long, printed in Times New Roman at 12pt.


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Most Recently...

22nd January, 2012
Happy New Year everyone! My first excitement of 2012 was the utter breakdown of my gorgeous laptop, and the loss of my website programme - ack! I've finally downloaded and got Kompozer working instead, so we're back in business though I'm still very much getting the hang of it.  There are similarities and differences - one being that it enforces various internet standards that I'd not got around to sorting, so that's good (eg., making sure there's a written description of images, so that voice-software can read out what's going on for blind users, and so that people on slow connections can opt not to see images but still know what's going on).

So - you might see some changes around here, or you might not.  If you spot anything particularly mucky, please do let me know!

Where to find Pros Zines...
Apart from via the Sources Page, from the menu bar up above, Loitering Palely can help you find Pros zines, both new and used, in and out of print. Members share information (both good and unfortunately sometimes bad) about zines and zine publishers, and help each other share, find, trade, buy and sell zines and zine stories. In particular if there is an out of print (OOP) zine that you are looking for, this might be the place to ask. Membership is on application - I'll get in touch with people I don't know or who don't seem to have Pros interests elsewhere before hitting "join", so do keep an eye on your email/lj inbox!

Please note: I have compiled my information as directly as I possibly could - from the zines themselves, the distributors, and from information passed on by ever-generous Pros fans. If there are any mistakes, they are quite likely to be entirely my fault, and I'd be grateful if they were pointed out. If authors, or anybody else mentioned on the site would prefer not to be included then please accept my apologies and let me know. I can be contacted by email to loiteringpalely at googlemail dot com. Contributions and offers of content, and other feedback are also always welcome!

Additionally, much of this site links to "slash" fiction - that is stories that may involve sexually explicit male/male relationships. Please be aware of this, and of your legal rights and responsibilities according to your age in accessing such material.

Some information about how I came to be doing this can be found here.