THE SUBS LETTERS
AP40-AP57 (erratically)

"I, The Sinister Blueness, am avenged!"

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One of the few things directly attributable to a member of AP was the Fun Subscription Letter.

(Oddly high on the list of incentives to subscribe drawn up by some publishers was the Personal Letter From The Editor. With things like, say, editing the mag to be getting on with, editors tended to leave the letter to the last possible moment, then list that issue's contents, add a "Hope you enjoy it" and scan in a signature.)

No one's quite sure who had the idea of assigning Your Sinclair's ed's letter to then staff writer Linda Barker, but surely their place in heaven is assured. With Linda as host, the renamed YS Subs Letter entered the realm ot the legendary, with photo-stories, recipes, competitions, diagrams for new dance steps, a different colour each month (the budget was generously stretched to include a wash over the black and white page), use of both sides of the paper and Mystic Malcolm And His Spec. Amazed publishers showered it with awards and declared it compulsory reading for writers of other mags' ed's letters, which had no effect whatever because no one else could really be bothered or had a Linda.

Linda's illness prevented her from introducing an AP Subs Letter, but with AP40, gentleman editor Jonathan Davies gratefully handed over responsibility for the time-consuming page to Linda's student on YS, Jonathan Nash. Ten Subs Letters then appeared irregularly over the next seventeen months, with Jonathan greatly enjoying spending a ridiculous amount of time using fantastically expensive software to superimpose moustaches on photographs of John Junkin. No one knows if any subscriber cared, but he liked them.

Jonathan would like to pay tribute at this point to the work of Janet, Queen Of Subs Letters, who toiled unstoppably to ensure the AP Subs Letters would be printed on time, for no other reason other than wanting to see what the new one was like.

All hail Janet! All hail Linda! All hail Mystic Malcolm And His Spec!