MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY, Editor and publisher of the Checklist, who attends to such minor chores as editorial format and manhandling the mimeograph, is by profession a writer of science fiction. Her work has appeared in virtually every science fiction magazine on the market. She is thirty years-old, lives in a small town in Texas, and her other interests are Italian opera, acrobatics and mountain climbing.

GENE DAMON, whose competent brain does the bibliographical work for the Checklist, is in her mid-twenties, lives in the midwest, and is a librarian; she previously worked as a book-keeper and on a large city newspaper. Her chief interests are classical music and the collecting of variant literature; her private library contains over 600 titles of lesbiana alone. It was the untiring, perfectionist efforts of Miss Damon which checked every biblio reference in this list; she also supplied a summary or precis for every title which the senior editor had not read. In general, Damon is the brains of the Checklist; MZB merely the brawn.

KERRY DAME, stencil-cutter, artist and printer’s devil, is in her early twenties and lives in New England with her mother and many cats. She is no stranger to the readers of the Ladder, who all know her gay, airy cover drawings.

LAURAJEAN ERMAYNE, contributor to Vice Versa, collector of lesbiana, specialist in films, and tireless hunter of the news-stands, lives in California and, under her own name, is a well-known editor and writer.

HOUSEKEEPING DEPARTMENT: In a forgotten closet, your editor has just discovered a stack of copies of the ASTRA’S TOWER Checklist #3. We thought they’d all been destroyed. This is the last-year’s list, containing Royal Drummond’s “Digression”, and my account of a hassle with the fascinatin' Miss Apple. I want to get these things out of my broom closet, and my soul revolts at the thought of tossing the things into the trash burner for the edification of the garbage collector. Therefore, we will make the following offer. Mailing these things out by printed-matter, fourth class mail costs 7-1/2 cents. By first class mail, 12 cents postage is required. Envelopes cost something. If anyone wants these (who knows, they might be valuable as examples of prehistoric lesbiana some day) you can have then for a quarter (first class mail) or six for a dollar to pass around among your friends. Hurry up—I’m going to need my broom closet for the mimeograph when I get finished with this year’s Checklist. You’ll find the address on the titlepage.—And this is it—The End—Marion.