Oh believe me, we got hate mail, and letter-campaigns and dogpiles - but all at snail-mail trans-Atlantic/Pacific speed...

As ever, the good authors were anxious for critiques (and because they were good, didn't really need them).

The bad got spitting mad (Lil's favourite response from a BNF to one of her more robust comments re Starsky & Hutch fic: "You don't know anything! You would have criticised Rembrant when he painted the Mona Lisa!"

As Lil said: "The Lord hath delivered her into my hand..."

I must look out some of those zines.