Begging Bowls and Selling Souls

As the new series is currently being filmed, we're still beavering away, attempting to bring you all the latest guff from the Doctor Who underground.  And we are underground - as I said - we're beavering away.  The last few months has seen a frightening drop in people sending stuff in (which is understandable, what with the series not being on, and all) and a quite alarming rise in postal prices here in the UK (which isn't understandable. They're just robbing bastards).  We can deal with the postal charges (no change in the prices for our readers) but we really need more contributions from people in order to maintain our existence.  If you fancy seeing your work in the fanzine please get in touch via fishcustardfanzine@googlemail.com  I can't stress enough that we'll accept ANYTHING as long as it's well written/drawn.  We exist to offer fans like you a view, so there is no agenda here to promote a particular point of view.  You can even write something on why The End of Time is the greatest episode ever, if you want!

For inspiration (or whatever the opposite is - I'm no Thesaurus) please feel free to browse through our back issues, which you can download or read online on the right side of this page. Or the left side, if you're upside down.

Now - the begging bit.  Seeing as how we're available in both print and PDF, it's obvious that we don't sell many paper copies.  We're big fans of the paper medium and it will always remain, no matter how many people purchase it.  But for our own financial sakes, we would like to sell more.  For £2 (UK) £3 (Everywhere Else) we feel that this offers fantastic value, considering other magazines cost nearly treble that.  Yes, we're home-made. Yes we aren't glossy full-colour efforts. But that isn't the point. We're not a magazine - we're a fanzine.  Something that has been (literally) made with love, excitement and anger.  You should see how many printers we've broke.

So with all this in mind, we've come up with a few offers to encourage our readers to snap up our paper copies.  Firstly - Issues 10 and 11 can be purchased for a combined price of £3 (UK) or £5 (Everywhere Else).  Issue 10 will be delivered to your door in a finely-weaved envelope (or customs bag) in June, whilst Issue 11 will be there in August. If that bit of info floats your boat, please send the payment that applies to you via PayPal, as a gift, to fishcustardfanzine@googlemail.com  Oh and don't forget to include your name and address too!

Secondly - We are now offering a new deal for potential subscribers.  If you purchase a 4-Issue subscription NOW you will receive 1 Issue FREE. That's £8 (UK) or £13 (Everywhere Else) for five issues of the fanzine!  You can view the details of the subscriptions here The offer ends on 1st June 2012

If don't indulge in PayPal, you can still purchase copies via credit/debit card in the box below.  The process is undertaken by PayPal, but you don't need to sign up for anything.  Please note that the extra charge is to cover our PayPal fees.

Prices (Includes P+P)

Issues 10 & 11 (UK) £3.20 GBP Issues 10 & 11 (Rest of The World) £5.20 GBP 5 Issue Subscription (UK) £8.20 GBP 5 Issue Subscription (Rest of The World) £13.20 GBP

We don't make any money from this, all we're trying to do is to offer folk the opportunity to read something that doesn't explode when you drop it down the toilet! If you would like to offer us money/job opportunities, then please feel free to get in touch.  We'll do anything here. We're not ashamed.

(Begging bowl away)

Anyway, thanks for reading this waffle and I hope to hear from you soon.  Even if you can't contribute/buy anything, please help to get the word around to fellow Doctor Who fans about the fanzine.  If you've got Twitter/Facebook/Google+/Tumblr/Actual Friends, please give us a leg up!  God knows why you find tales of drunkenness, rants about long-dead writers and lists of fives amusing, but it seems some of you do - so thanks for that!

Cheers!

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More Contributors Wanted!

We're hoping to release more Issues in the next couple of months, but we can only do so with the support of our readers.  As always, we're on the lookout for contributors old or new, so if you fancy writing about anything that vaguely-relates Doctor Who, please get in touch with us at fishcustardfanzine@googlemail.com at anytime!  If you need ideas on what to write, look at the tab on the left of this page, or browse through our back catalogue!  The fanzine can only continue if people send in their stuff, so we'd be grateful if you could!

We've got plenty of things planned for the coming year and with Doctor Who also building up to it's 50th Birthday - it's a great time to be involved with fandom!

Cheers

Issue 9 - DOWNLOAD NOW!!!

A new year brings new things. Though seeing as how we are extremely lazy, we continue to bring you the same old tat that we usually do.

In Issue 9 of Fish Fingers and Custard, we have the following:

• Reviews of The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe
• Where To Start - Which stories would you show to a new fan?
• Season 6B
• The BBC Bazaar - We help out BBC Worldwide with some moneymaking ideas
• Crafty Who - A new section dedicated to fan-made stuff!
• Cyber Moan - Why are the New Series Cybermen so rubbish?

And much more!

To download this little ray of sunshine, just right-click here and save to your computer. This Issue is also on sale in paper form, which you can purchase by clicking the 'issues' tab on the left of this page.

Cheers and if you fancy contributing to the next issue of the fanzine, please don't hesitate to get into contact with us!

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A Nice Warm Welcome To Jenna-Louise...

..or Jenna, as the lazy people amongst us will be calling her. Maybe that's what everyone calls her, who knows. Anyway, today has seen the BBC officially announce that Jenna-Louise Coleman (that's how a double-barrel forename SHOULD be written, Sarah Jane fans!) will be taking over the bedroom (and knicker drawer) of Karen Gillan. Oh and Arthur too, but the press always seem to forget about him!

Personally, I think this is a good move. Jenna isn't that much of an unknown quantity, due to roles in Emmerdale and the AWARD WINNING Waterloo Road, so at least we know that we're getting someone decent. I think it's fair to say that she's more of an experienced actress than Karen, Freema or Billie were at this point in their careers. If she nailed her audition as well as we hear, then don't worry - she'll be good and hopefully, a nice change!

Even more personally, I wanted to have a different sort of companion this time around. I'm sure other people are getting sick of the 'attractive, young female' route that Doctor Who seems to go down. It's a sad reflection of society when a television program needs to these people to appeal to an audience. I find it wholly ironic that one of the best companions done on Big Finish audio, is a 50 year-old woman. See, it works! But lets face it, we're never going to get a character so old, so wise, so able to stand up The Doctor. Doing something different should be the hallmark of Doctor Who, but sadly, it isn't any more.

But whatever happens, I do hope Jenna won't be a run-of-the-mill modern day girl, or using wishful thinking, not even human!

I just hope she has braced herself for life in Doctor Who. Welcome to the madness.

Issue 9 - OUT NOW!!!

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PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS ISSUE IS NOW SOLD OUT

A new year brings new things. Though seeing as how we are extremely lazy, we continue to bring you the same old tat that we usually do.

In Issue 9 of Fish Fingers and Custard, we have the following:

• Reviews of The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe
• Where To Start - Which stories would you show to a new fan?
• Season 6B
• The BBC Bazaar - We help out BBC Worldwide with some moneymaking ideas
• Crafty Who - A new section dedicated to fan-made stuff!
• Cyber Moan - Why are the New Series Cybermen so rubbish?

And much more!

You can order a copy of this Issue by slipping one of the following payments to us via PayPal:

UK: £2
Rest of The World: £3

Please send to fishcustardfanzine@googlemail.com and please mark your payment as a 'gift'. Oh and don't forget to include your name and address too!  If you don't have a PayPal account, you can also pay by credit/debit card below:

Prices (Includes P+P)

UK £2.20 GBP Worldwide £3.20 GBP

Cheers and if you fancy contributing to the next issue of the fanzine, please don't hesitate to get into contact with us!

Discounted UK Issues!

We're clearing out old stock here at the Fish Custard Potting Shed - you can now purchase paper copies of either Issues 2, 6 or 7 for just £1! Just send your quid, via paypal, to fishcustardfanzine@googlemail.com and please mark your payment as a 'gift' and don't forget to enclose your name, address and which Issue you want!

Due to the nature of postal charges, this offer is for UK residents only, if you're an international reader, please get into contact via the e-mail address and we'll arrange a price.

Cheers

Download Issues 1-8

We've collated all 8 Issues of Fish Custard together into one easy-to-download file for your reading pleasure.  Simply right-click (or whichever button you use) here and save the file to your computer.

And you've still got plenty of time to contribute to Issue 9, the deadline is the 24th Feb. See here for more information.

Cheers!