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CSO Issue 1

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CSO - The Cult Television Fanzine 
- Issue 1

CSO is a new 56 page, A4 fanzine which features articles related to the following televisions shows:

Lost in Space, Doomwatch, Quatermass, Dallas, The Tripods, Columbo, Metal Mickey, Red Dwarf, Blake's 7, Twin Peaks, Star Trek, Doctor Who, Hi-De-Hi!, Are You Being Served?, Sherlock Holmes, The Carringtons and The Colbys. 

You can order a full colour copy from the Paypal button below. Thank you! :)  

CSO Issue 1

CSO - UK (inc Postage) £4.99 GBP CSO Worldwide (inc Postage) £8.99 GBP

An optional Black and White printed copy (with 2 extra pages) of CSO Issue 1 (with colour covers) is also available from this link... CSO Issue 1 

Thank you for your support.

ISSUE 1 SUBMISSION DEADLINE

The first Issue of CSO - The Cult TV Fanzine has been in production since October 2011. The closing date for submissions is now confirmed as 20th November 2012. Hopefully, this will mean a Christmas 2012 release. If you'd like to have your articles/artwork/comic strips featured, please contact the editor here ASAP. Thank you :)

Welcome to CSO

This is the homepage for CSO, the printed Cult TV Fanzine. If you would like to contribute to a future issue, please look us up on Facebook. CSO will cover all your favourite series and a lot that slip under the Radar too. If you’d like to contribute to the first issue, please email the editor snhbuk@gmail.com

Submission Guidelines for CSO

Please email all submissions here with the subject pre-fixed “CSO”

ARTICLES

Enthuse about the subject (either way, good or bad). Draw the reader in. Make them want to watch it too (for good or bad).

You can write about any of your favourite Cult TV shows, no matter where they have originated from. We love Doctor Who, Blake’s 7, Sapphire and Steel, The Prisoner, Hammer House of Horror, Space 1999, Star Fleet etc. and we’d like to cover Comedy shows too like The Mighty Boosh and Garth Marenghi. All we ask from you is that you write passionately and seriously about the subject and where possible write with a view to promoting it to someone who may never have heard of it before and will likely do so (or not if it’s terrible) on the strength of your article. You can write about any aspect of your chosen show, whether it is praise, criticism, anecdotes from the production team and you can be as detailed as you wish.

Here is a short list of suggested material:-

Series introduction/history/future
Series Reviews
Episode Guides
Interviews with the production crew and actors
Opinions
Fan Fiction
Comic strips
Convention News and Interviews
Letters pages

Please aim to write at least two pages of text for your articles and avoid any colourful metaphors where possible. When submitting text, please where possible, supply in Microsoft Word .doc .txt format and avoid using any tabs and excessive spaces to bring words over to the next line. Please use a carriage return for this. All text will be reformatted for publication and adhering to this will mean a quicker turnaround for the fanzine. Don’t forget to read over your article when finished and to check grammar and spelling. There is nothing worse than seeing a mistake in your work when it’s printed.

ARTWORK / ILLUSTRATIONS / PHOTOS / SCREENGRABS

Where possible, please supply any illustrations/comic strips sized to A4 (210mm wide x 297mm deep) and with a resolution of 300DPI (Dots per inch). Preferably, as CMYK but RGB colour and Greyscale is accepted. The following file formats are suggested .jpg .tif .psd. If you find these files are too large to email (we can accept up to 20mb per email) You can supply a link to us from free.mailbigfile.com If you are taking any photos for us, particularly with a digital camera, please use your cameras maximum quality settings and send the files without any resizing. If you do not have access to a scanner or a digital camera, we can accept original hard copy prints but please bear in mind there is a risk involved in posting these. Where possible, if you have a DVD and are able to capture screenshots using popular software such as VLC or even by pressing the PrtScn button and pasting the resulting screen capture into Microsoft Paint, please feel free to do so, if this helps to highlight any points you are making in the article. When naming your files, where possible use names that are relevant to the picture and include the names of any characters featured.

ADVERTISING

Colour printing is very expensive for any publication. If you would like to donate any funds to help us to continue, we can make some accommodation for advertising for you. The fanzine is strictly a non-profit making publication and no staff are paid for their work. As a non professional, fan produced publication, we cannot afford to pay for any material submitted.

THANK YOU

As a thank you for your support, you will receive a contributor copy of the fanzine (only if you have supplied a feature article) when completed and hopefully a wide varied readership which may open doors for you to paying work. Please supply your full name and address with your submission in order to receive a copy.

COPYRIGHT

CSO is a strictly not for profit Fanzine. All Television shows featured are reviewed by fans and all opinions expressed are those of the author. All photographs and promotional material remains copyright to their respective owners and no infringement on any copyright is intended, and their use is often kept to a minimum, except where permission has been granted. All advertising within CSO has been given freely as a gift to all those friends who have helped produce the fanzine or supported the producer.