Elisabeth Waters

Elisabeth Waters was a writer in the Sime~Gen and Darkover fandoms. She wrote fiction in Starstone, edited at least one Ambrov Zeor!. She was listed in Darkover Newsletter as "office manager and bookkeeper," and it was there she was very active and made many editorial comments. 
Waters was Marion Zimmer Bradley's long-time personal assistant. An article in the "New York Times" at the time of Bradley's death referred to Waters as Bradley's "cousin and secretary." Marion Zimmer Bradley, 69, Writer of Darkover Fantasies 
Waters and Bradley were romantically involved from 1978 to at least 1985. (1997) 
They were introduced to each other in Jacqueline Lichtenberg's living room Marion Zimmer Bradley's Influence on the Sime~Gen Universe Photo: ; Wayback, linked from Jacqueline Lichtenberg's simegen.com website: Sime~Gen Historical Images: Do You Remember When? in the summer of 1977 "THE KEEPER'S PRICE is a collaboration; and when such a story bears the names of two authors, one amateur and one professional, the reader is always curious to know how the collaboration came about. Last summer, visiting Jacqueline Lichtenberg, I met Lisa and in the course of the evening she told me she found the character of Hilary, briefly mentioned in FORBIDDEN TOWER, so intriguing that she had written a story about her. This startled me—I too had written a Hilary story—and I urged Lisa to send me hers, promising to let her read mine. When Lisa sent her story, untitled, somewhat fragmentary, I found it so gripping to my imagination that I was almost unconscious of its flaws; and it dovetailed into my world in such a way that all I really contributed to this story—which is, in essence, Lisa's—was the detail of Keeper's training which Lisa could not have been expected to know. I'm proud to present it here MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY" — from Starstone #1 (1/1978) 
From her blog: "Elisabeth Waters sold her first short story in 1980 to Marion Zimmer Bradley for THE KEEPER'S PRICE, the first of the Darkover anthologies. She then went on to sell short stories to a variety of anthologies. Her first novel, a fantasy called CHANGING FATE, was awarded the 1989 Gryphon Award. She is now working on a sequel to it, in addition to her short story writing and anthology editing." Elisabeth Waters: News, Random Thoughts, and Story Ideas, accessed September 20, 2016 
==Waters and Bradley's Living Trust==
Elisabeth Waters is the beneficiary of Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Works Trust. It appears that the "Marion Zimmer Bradley's Living Trust" (cited as the publisher of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine from 1994-2000) is the same organization/corporation.
See Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Works Trust: Who's in Charge? Who Benefits?.
===Comments Regarding Delegation, The Literary Trust===
Comments by Elizabeth Waters on April 30, 2014: 
==The 2014 Allegations Regarding Marion Zimmer Bradley==
Standards of Proof is a June 18, 2014 blog post by Waters which may be a metaphoric comment about the 2014 allegations regarding Marion Zimmer Bradley.
===E-Books: Profits and Donations===
On July 1, 2014, Victor Gollancz Ltd wrote: 
On February 16, 2016, Elisabeth Waters posted about MZB's ebooks. She did not mention profits in any way: 
==Fanzines==
===Darkover===
* Darkover Newsletter
===Sime~Gen===
* The Sime/Gen Concordance
===Misc===
* The Fantastic Journal #2 (The Fantastic Journey)
* Spirit
==Meta==
* Confessions of a Terranan Keeper, or, An Untrained Telepath is a Danger to Herself and Everyone Around Her (1982)
==Interviews==
===2000===
* Timeline of Events compiled by Stephen Goldin
* EXCERPTS FROM MZB'S DEPOSITIONS 
* DEPOSITION OF MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY - 8/10/98
* DEPOSITION OF ELISABETH WATERS - 10/16/97; WebCite
* EXCERPTS FROM LISA WATER'S DEPOSITIONS
* Main Page by Stephen Goldin 
* a letter of defense by Eisabeth Waters
* response to Elizabeth Waters
* Elisabeth Waters Interview (2008)
* Author Interview: Marion Zimmer Bradley Trust: Ann Sharp and Lisa Waters (2013)
* (2014)
* Elisabeth Waters Interview (2015)
==Further Reading==
* (May 1997)
* (2014)
* A Tarnished Legacy: The End of Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Sword and Sorceress; archive link by Doris V. Sutherland (December 2019)
==References==
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