APAs, which existed before nascent sf and fantasy fandom took
them to heart and began their own beginning in the latest
'20s iinm, are one of the wellsprings from which fanzines
sprang (club organs and personal versus institutional
"little" magazines being the others)...and since speculative
fiction fans helped get organized crime-fiction fandom
going...
But, of course, we in the Anti-Defamation Association would
like you to know that Organized Crime-Fiction Fandom is a
myth...TM
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Joy: An apa is an amateur press association. DAPA-Em is the
apa devoted to mystery fiction. Each member writes his
own
"fanzine" and sends it to the official editor, who compiles
the various zines into "the mailing." So the members get a
collection of fanzines every two months. It works sort of
like this list except in print. Members have to produce a
certain number of pages at least every other mailing.
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