Confessions of an Ex-Zine Editor is six-part serialised story about zines, drugs, and quitting rock 'n' roll. It tells the story of what happened after the author published the 38th and final issue of her noughties glam zine, Bubblegum Slut.
32-page A4 zine. Full colour cover, b/w inside.
Front cover art by Andy Tilley, ft. Dorian Bridges and Emily Breeze
Issue 2 is based around entries from a 2012 diary. Here’s (some) of what’s inside:
- Interviews with Dorian Bridges (aka Of Herbs and Altars), Emily Breeze, on her ‘coming of middle age’ songs, and the author's best friend (in which they discuss their teen zines and take a zine quiz)
- A lecture circuit tour diary, from a tour manager-turned-archaeologist
- 1.5 more Things I Did When I Didn’t Write Zines
- Gigs for Old Gits, reviewed by an all-star cast of guest Ex-Zine Editors
- 5 of my favourite Trainwreck Memoirs
- Entries from the messy diary (it never was harbouring a Trainwreck Memoir, but I have wrung a Rail Replacement zine out it).
- Another Back Cover Index, another serving of surreal reviews, another round of recovery talk
- 100% more steampunks, roast dinners, children’s drawings and reggae