Talk:Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine

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Authors

The listing of authors has two issues. 1. notability of some of these authors (probably don't need red links) 2. wrong links to articles with the same name. I've gone through the first half of these links, suggesting improvements, and fixing links. Widefox (talk) 20:40, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Bibliographies and checklists

These bibliographies and checklists might be useful for this article: http://www.mzbworks.com/bindx.htm http://www.philsp.com/mags/mzb.html Jodi.a.schneider (talk) 05:13, 8 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Award-winnning short stories, to establish notability

Many award-winning stories were first published in this magazine. Searching Locus (e.g. "marion zimmer bradley's fantasy magazine" award will turn up a number of relevant results which could be included. Jodi.a.schneider (talk) 05:14, 8 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Contributors list

In my opinion, the contributors list is not needed in this article. Piece counts would also need to be sourced. I'm putting this here to make it easy to see what I removed. Jodi.a.schneider (talk) 05:17, 8 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Contributors

Contributors with more than one piece appearing in the magazine included:

Darrell Schweitzer (22)
Marion Zimmer Bradley (18)
Laura J. Underwood (13)
Dorothy J. Heydt (12)
Lawrence Schimel (10)
Steven Piziks (9)
Parke Godwin (8)
Rachel E. Holmen (8)
Patricia Duffy Novak (8)
Elisabeth Waters (8)
John P. Buentello (7)
Mercedes Lackey (7)
Ann Sharp (7)
Lynne Armstrong-Jones (6)
Jo Clayton (6)
Phyllis Ann Karr (6)
Barbara Rosen (6)
Cynthia McQuillin (5)
Patricia Russo (5)
eluki bes shahar (4)
Mary Catelli (4)
Isabel Cole (4)
Larry Hodges (4)
Bob Liddil (4)
Julia S. Mandala (4)
Richard Purtill (4)
Raul S. Reyes (4)
Selina Rosen (4)
Jacqueline M. Shank (4)
Stephanie Shaver (4; 1 with Ronald Pisano)
Susan Shwartz (4)

Contributors with only one piece appearing in the magazine included:

Authors interviewed

Authors who were the subjects of interviews appearing in the magazine included:

More on notability

On a page about The Lost Years of Merlin, which purports to be part of "an offprint from Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults, Volume 12." per the copyright info: "The inaugural issue of a leading fantasy magazine (Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine, 1989) featured a story about a spinning castle."

With print sources this "leading fantasy magazine" claim should be easy to back up. Jodi.a.schneider (talk) 05:24, 8 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Interviews

It would be nice to have a better source regarding interviews as a "characteristic"--i.e. from a literary criticism piece. I have removed this: "Often a story by the person interviewed would appear in the same issue as the interview.^{[citation needed]}"

Based on the back issue index, such interview/story pairs appeared *sometimes* but perhaps not "often". Feel free to replace this with a better source. Jodi.a.schneider (talk) 05:42, 8 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Additional quotes

"Her magazine rose from modest beginnings to a respectable standard of fiction, cover art, and pay rate. Bradley took her editing duties seriously and personally read every story submitted to her magazines and anthologies." from Supernatural Fiction Writers: Peter Ackroyd to Graham Joyce by Richard Bleiler, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2003, "Marion Zimmer Bradley"

Interview with Marion Zimmer Bradley, conducted October 30, 1989 in 113-133 of Speaking of the Fantastic by Darrell Schweitzer. Page 113 is largely about the magazine.

Jodi.a.schneider (talk) 06:07, 8 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Additional sources that could be used

Here are a few sources that could be used to improve this article if you can get a copy:

Bradley Magazine Snafu. Locus 21(12):5. December 1988.
MZB's Fantasy Magazine Due. Science Fiction Chronicle 9(9):4. June 1988.
MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY'S FANTASY MAGAZINE, Encyclopedia of Fantasy, 3rd edition. Jodi.a.schneider (talk) 16:36, 8 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Also The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Fantasy: The Definitive Illustrated Guide. Research sources noted in Fantasy authors: a research guide for Marion Zimmer Bradley might also be helpful. Jodi.a.schneider (talk) 18:06, 8 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]