reflections
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running an in-person zine distro
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Sheer Spite isn’t my first time running a zine-selling operation: from about 2012 to 2016, I ran a couple of zine racks in person in Ottawa, where I was…
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on doing a giant mess of stuff as opposed to one streamlined thing
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So Sheer Spite does kind of a whole bunch of stuff. Here’s a list of types of things Sheer Spite sells: Print and digital zines that I (Lee, the…
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on sliding scale zine pricing, and the economics of running a tiny press
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Pricing creative work is notoriously difficult. I find it especially so for zines. In running Sheer Spite, two things that are important to me are supporting people in making…
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Five things zine fairs do that I love
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Hello! I’ve been thinking about zine fairs (and book fairs, small press fairs, and other places where people stand behind a table and sell you little booklets). I’ve tabled…
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what I learned from my zine tour
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I spent most of the spring in Europe doing a ~*~ zine business tour ~*~, which is kind of a wild thing to be able to do! I sold…
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sheer spite press: the first year
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I consider the moment of Sheer Spite Press’ birth (or… conception??) to have been on September 6, 2023. I had been looking into arts grants, and realizing how differently…