Nothing Left to Lose by Jane & Madelaine Ingram

[starlite876.livejournal.com]

I have just finished reading Nothing Left to Lose, and noticed that there was a by-line giving credit to Kathy Keegan (Nothing Left to Lose by Jane and Madeleine Ingram from a story by Kathy Keegan)

From checking fanlore.org, I see that Jane/Madeleine Ingram/Kathy Keegan is the same author.

I am curious about the story by Kathy Keegan that "inspired" Nothing Left to Loose. Does such a story exist, or just something that was put in the by-line? Was it a paper circuit story, or was it published in a zine? Is the story available online? How different is Kathy's story compared to Jane's story?

Does anyone have any information about Kathy's story?

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[saintvic.livejournal.com]

Hey, now this could be completely and utterly wrong after all it is ages since I read "Nothing Left to Lose" but after reading your question I got curious and did some googling.

And I found a book called Windrage by someone called Mel Keegan. Not something I have heard of / read but if you read the description here (http://www.dream-craft.com/melkeegan/windrage_dc.htm), I think it might match "Nothing Left to lose", or what I remember of it.

Apologies if I am totally wrong here, which is very likely.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

It's the other way around, I'm afraid - Kathy Keegan and Jane are the same person, who later disowned fandom (including Pros) and published her Prosfic as "original fic" with a change of names, and sometimes a few other changes. Some, such as Windrage is still recognisably the Prosfic it started as. Jane's The Swordsman has also been turned into one of her "original novels" as Mel Keegan - although it's been a while since I checked, and it seemed to be a work in progrees, when I first saw the two side by side they were practically identical but for the names...

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

My memory might be hazy but back when I was in TS, her publishing group did TS zines. On the aussie site, the Keegan books also had a page, as well as several other authors. All the books/fic/fanfic seemed to be inter-related. It was a pretty nice site, if I do remember correctly.

I found this on the wayback machine: http://web.archive.org/web/20051228101608/http://www.dream-craft.com/siteindex.htm

Not sure how many pages will load but you can get an idea of what the Nut Hatch/NHE site looked like.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the actual site was still up when I first came into Pros here on lj - she sold zines and pictures of the lads (and probably the TS lads and others as well, though I didn't look at those pages!) and I seem to remember that she'd put various things onto CD and was selling them that way too... Then she did her infamous strop from fandom, and it all vanished... (Or I should say her "most recent" strop from fandom perhaps, because apparently it wasn't her first...) She did seem to have quite the commercial venture going though - I presume that as her Mel Keegan persona took off, sales-wise, she let go of fandom so it didn't try and hold back from selling her old Pros stories etc revamped to be "original fiction"... at least that's my interpretation! It's a shame...

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

She left fandom just before I found Pros and S&H. I don't even remember the S&H stuff although I see she had plenty of it. I'd bought some Sentinel stuff from their site back in the day.

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[starlite876.livejournal.com]

How I wish I joined the fandom when the Nut Hatch was still in business. It would have been nice to be able to buy zines published locally without having to worry about paying the high postage costs.

A little off-topic, but did the Nut Hatch charged a lot on postage costs when posting the zines outside Australia? One of the US publisher/agent who handles PROS zines charges very high shipping costs per zine (to post outside the US), and refuses to combined shipping.

I had purchased about 10 zines from them and asked if they would consider shipping them together to save on shipping costs and they refused, indicating that they always shipped the zines individually. What really made me angry was that the fact they then shipped all 10 zines together in one large package box at a much lower shipping rate!

Thanks everyone for telling me about the history of Jane and the Pros fandom. I just looked up Mel Keegan in fanlore.org and learnt something new:— the meaning of "Filing Off Serial Numbers"!

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[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

Re: zines and shipping. I admit I'd be annoyed that a publisher wouldn't combine shipping. If you need to buy zines again, I'd get them for you at a con at a reduced rate and ship them in one box to you.

I think shipping was about ten dollars for a zine. It's been a while, but I remember that it was rather expensive, which is why I think I bought just one.