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Laura Haywood-Cory is seeking contributions to the second issue of her heart health-related fanzine, A Change of Heart: “This one will be timed to come out during February, which here in the United States is American Heart Month. If that issue does well too, then I may have an annual fanzine on my hands.”

Here’s what she needs:

As before, I’m looking for essays, poems, artwork, and short fiction–from fans with any type of heart disease/heart failure, on the topic of being a fan with heart problems. See first issue for examples.

Emailed submissions are greatly preferred–to laurahcory at yahoo, but if you know someone who doesn’t do email but has a story to tell, ping me and I’ll get you my snail-mail address.

Laura’s deadline for submissions is January 30, 2010. That means there’s still time left for you to read the and LoC the first issue!

Laura Haywood-Cory wants to get out the word about heart disease:

Since my heart attack and angioplasty/stents, I’ve been trying to think of a fannish way to get the word out about heart disease, which as I’m sure my readers are aware, is the #1 killer of men and women both in the US. I volunteered at a health expo last weekend, at the WomenHeart booth, handing out brochures and information.

Well, on my way to work the other morning, a lightbulb went off. Fans don’t want to read brochures, we want to read *fanzines* (duh). So I figured I’d try to solicit as many stories from as many fannish heart patients as I could, put them all together in a one-shot, and distribute it far and wide.

The zine will be called A Change of Heart. She’s looking for essays, poems, letters and artwork from fans who’ve had heart-related illness themselves, or had experience with family members who did.  

Submissions can be e-mailed to <laurahcory [at] yah00> — the deadline is July 24. She intends to have it ready by the Worldcon.