Lisa Carver, Rollerderby

Age: 28

Selection: "The Brutality of Little House on the Prairie" (page 159)

Recent review (from Out Your Backdoor): "Excellent sub-pop scene overview. Letters section full of ongoing feud and sexual groveling. Gross, nasty, trashy. Whimsical, funny, friendly. (I laff, I cry, I am revolted.)"

Sample: $3 from P.O. Box 474, Dover, NH 03821 (checks: Lisa Carver) or order online

Why publish a zine?
1) To make money
2) For the same reason I call my friends—I have some gossip or revelation to tell, and I hope to hear some back too.
3) Good excuse for dates with the interviewees.

Have you ever published any other zines?
DIRT, a hardcore zine when I was 16. Three issues, 30 copies each.

What's your favorite part of doing a zine?
Asking nosy questions.

Any general tips for aspiring zinesters?
Quit talking. Hurry up.

What do you like best about zines?
I like the ones that come out very, very infrequently, and don't waste the whole introduction explaining why they're so late.

In my other life, I'm a:
I used to be a teenage Suckdog (operatic) and a Friendly's waitress and a really good rollerskater. Now I'm a mom, a fast car driver and a "Days of Our Lives" addict. That show is so exciting! It's grandiose.