Beauty and the Beast Fan Club (US)

You may be looking for Beauty and the Beast Fan Club (UK), run by Amber James and Joy Faulkner.
Beauty and the Beast Fan Club was a fan club that began in March 1988.
At some point, the club's name became "Beauty and the Beast International Fan Club" (also known as BBIFC).
From their flyer in The Beauty & the Beast Buyer's Guide to Fanzines‎: "The goals of this club are to promote fan-to-fan contact and communication, to promote the show, and to promote the ideals and values of the show."
==Leadership==
The club was founded and run by Deb Hense until late 1990, when it was turned over to Sharon Wells. From the editorial of Shadow Knight #2 (January 1991): 
==Publications and Membership Goodies==
 
Membership included a Membership Kit, a Winterfest gift, and a 24-hour information telephone service. 
Publications included a quarterly newsletter called Beauty and The Beast: The Newsletter, which appears to have become Beauty and the Beast International Fan Club Newsletter
The club also issued a scrapbook of article reprints and clippings. Its title was A Romantic of the Leonine Persuasion.
==Hosted a Convention==
The club helped bring Roy Dotrice to Iowa for a mini-B&tB convention within the January 1989 ICON, Iowa's oldest science fiction convention. 
==Awards Sponsor==
The club also sponsored the Beauty and the Beast Fan Quality Awards for fanzines which were given out at Tunnelcon I & II. A list of winners from Tunnelcon I can be found here. The nominee list for Tunnelcon II is on the image below.
 
==Some Stats==
In March 1988, it had 100 members. stated in issue #2 of Beauty and the Beast 
In June 1988, it had 800 members. stated in issue #2 of Beauty and the Beast 
In August 1988, it had 1250 members. stated in issue #3 of Beauty and the Beast 
In December 1988, it had 1632 members. stated in issue #3 of Beauty and the Beast 
=="Your Club and How It Works"==
From v.1 n.2 (1988) of the club's newsletter:
==Connections to TPTB==
As was common in fan club publications, various actors and showrunners were honorary members of the club and were sent copies of this newsletter. The club's third newsletter lists their names: Jay Acovone, Roy Dotrice, David Greenlee, Linda Hamilton, Ron Koslow, George R.R. Martin, and Ron Perlman.
This, of course, was no guarantee that TPTB noticed or read their offerings, but there are mentions in the club's newsletter that some of them did. One example from the third issue's editorial: 
One example of how the fan club fostered a connection between fans and the show was the interview with one of the actors in the fourth newsletter. The interviewer asked: 
Sometimes the information offered to fans was reassurance about direction, casting, and characterization, things many fans were hungry for. These statements were almost always along the lines of official publicity. Fans were also given little details of things that occurred on the set, something that fostered connections between them and TPTB. From the fourth issue: 
While "official" eyes and comments on this newsletter thrilled many club members, this coziness likely had a cooling effect on their comments. TPTB's attention and suggestion that fan comments directed decisions about the show also complicated things, especially later on when the show began to take a turn in ways many fans disliked. See The Classic vs. Season 3 Split and The Beauty and the Beast Wars.
==References==
Category:Beauty and the Beast Fan Clubs
Category:1988 Fan Clubs
Category:1980s Fan Clubs
Category:1990s Fan Clubs