This is a page all about us and our site. Not that our heads are in any way bigger than yours…
Contact us!!
For anything relating to this site including contributions, offers of help, queries, comments, legal or technical issues: hello@livefrommars.co.uk
For anything relating to the fanzine Jargon including comments, contributions, mailing issues: zine@livefromars.co.uk
If you want to contact John privately with messages of vital importance to do with the site or zine: ed@livefrommars.co.uk
Site Submissions Policy
Please do send us stuff and help by following these guidelines. All contribs to be emailed to hello@livefrommars.co.uk
General:
Anything submitted should not currently be on another site or previously published in a fanzine or magazine.
Submissions should be copy ready (spellchecked etc) and on a Word document in Times New Roman size 12 font. Material may be edited for size, content, legal or other reasons.
Reviews:
Max. 1,000 words. Can be of any new or recent TV programme, music, film, play, book or event including dvd releases or downloads.
Articles / Features:
These should be an overview or analysis or opinion piece on TV, music, film from any era. No long plot synopses please unless you’re writing about an archive thing that people will not be familiar with.
Interviews:
If you interview anyone interesting we’d love to add it onto the site if they agree.
How The Fanzine Works
This Way Up is as much a part of us as this site and is filled with longer articles and features on genre tv old and new. Latest issues are advertised on the home page.
Fanzine Submissions Policy
If you’d like to contribute to This Way Up, then please get in touch via zine@livefromars.co.uk
We’re especially looking for people who can produce interesting, informative and entertaining features on current genre tv, both UK and US.
Fringeworld: A Brief History Of Ourselves…
Fringeworld have been publishing fanzines since 1992 when TOP was launched. A fun zine which attempted to mould `Smash Hits` (remember that?) with Doctor Who , it ran for 9 issues and what it lacked in production values made up for in boundless energy. These were the days of gluesticks and tippex so things always looked a bit ropey. In 1995 its successor FAZE began and went on to become, arguably, the last great paper Doctor Who zine. It was there in 1996 for the whole TV Movie hoopla publishing full reviews before any other zine and soaking up the whole Paul McGann `era` such as it was. FAZE was more than just the Time Lord however. Over the course of its five and a half years there was in depth coverage of shows like Lois and Clark, Babylon 5, Star Trek: Voyager and it was one of the first to pick up on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and probably the only zine that covered Third Rock From The Sun. FAZE ran for 24 issues and in that time included contributions from some of the best known fan writers.
In 2002, our next title THIS WAY UP started and was unique from the start due to being offered free, the first time we know of that a proper full size zine had done this to directly compete with websites. The intention had been for a mostly non Doctor Who zine exploring the places other zines and websites seldom visited and to this end it contained features on topics as diverse as Isaac Newton, the demotion from being a planet of Pluto, the successor to the world wide web, cheating in exams and the X Prize. It also included some in depth music articles on major albums and little explored topics such as lost Fleetwood Mac guitarist Danny Kirwan and 70s kids show The Ghosts of Motley Hall. Yet Doctor Who was present too thanks to the return of the show in 2005 and THIS WAY UP covered the first three seasons. Running for 21 issues, the zine straddled the divide between printed and electronic fan media with, we like to think, style and content. Much of the archive content of this site is taken from THIS WAY UP, hopefully keeping the excellent material published in the public domain permanently.
After a brief flirtation with JARGON we revived THIS WAY UP early in 2009. As well as the usual A% paper version there is also a time-limited PDF version available from this website. Details and a download are on the Home page.
We are…
John Connors – overall site / zine editor and writer
Bob Stanley – web design / technical stuff
Richard Farrell – zine design editor
Tim Worthington, Oliver Wake, DJ Tyrer, Ashley Stewart, Matt Salusbury, Dave Rolinson, Martin Pollard, Henry Parker, Chris Orton, Matthew Kilburn, Roger Jones, Ben Finlay, Andrew Darlington, Ben Baker, Chris Arnsby – writers / contributors
(if we forgot to mention anyone let us know)
Legal Stuff
Live From Mars is an amateur non profit making (in fact probably loss making) site.
No attempt is made to supercede anybody’s copyright but if we do please let us know.
Views and opinions expressed are solely those of the credited writer and not necessarily of anyone else. All non credited material is written by members of the site team.
Nothing from this site may be copied in whole or part except for excerpts for review purposes.
Technical Stuff
The site is hosted by 1and1
If you spot a link that doesn’t work or any other technical glitch please contact us in the first instance and our team of highly trained web frogs will sort it out.
