Zille and I have known each other for longer than just about anybody on BlueBlood.com. I first met Zille when she was dating one of the antisocial (but witty) writers for BLT, the punk rock humor zine I did out of the DC area. I think we ate Chinese food. She was blonde and well-spoken and I like her immediately. Over time, her hair has gone through many changes, but she has always been well-spoken.

Zille was part of the zine revolution with her photocopied but well-written publication Homewrecker, which was reviewed in the last print issue of Blue Blood to be laid out but not printed. Darn it. Zille was really the first person Forrest and I worked with to shoot deliberately for magazines besides Blue Blood. In addition to being one of the first Gothic Sluts models, along with Yolanda, Dana Dark, and Persephone, Forrest Black and I shot Zille for Hustler's Taboo, Hustler's Barely Legal, Draculina, Marquis, and more. I think the spread we shot of her for Barely Legal was their most softcore ever, because they were trying not to show her extensive genital piercings. Zille has graced the cover of On Our Backs and been written up everywhere from Blood Moon to The Village Voice. She has also done work for Hogtied, Playboy, Wasteland, and a variety of kinky folks. Although Zille is a lifestyle submissive, always up for trying something sexy and new, she is willing to be in charge IRL when it matters. She has organized erotic photography workshops to help make the world a more beautiful place.

A feature Zille wrote for Dark Play about Forrest's and my work has a really sweet endorsement from her, which I've included in the Gothic Sluts About Us section since like 2001: "Forrest Black and Amelia G . . . two people who helped to shape the Gothic scene as we know it today . . . All of Forrest and Amelia's products have the stamp of quality on them (as they are perfectionists) and if you are interested in things gothic or fetishistic, I recommend both their electronic and paper publications . . . BlueBlood magazine changed my life. It has undoubtedly changed other people's lives"

Nimble with the written word, Zille explains her initial attraction to modeling, saying, "I don't know when I saw my first picture of Marlene Dietrich, but it was that moment when my modeling career first started. The way the light played down over her cheekbones and shaped her eyes, the way her hair glowed and her lips curved — I wanted that to be me, to be as loved by the camera as she was. I wanted to be made-up, posed and with a barely audible "click" have that moment captured for all eternity."

--Amelia G, Los Angeles, December 2005