Susan Matthews

Susan Matthews wrote for a number of gen zines in the Star Wars and Blake's 7 fandoms. 
==Some Fanac==
* member of First Terran Enclave 
* recipient of the 1981 The SF/Media Fan Fund
* winner of a 1982 FanQ and a Star aWard in 1995
* creator of the satiric SulkCon '81
* quoted in the essay Where the Boys Are 
* discussed in the essay From Star Wars to Jedi: The Fanzine Way
* contributed to Care to Debate That? Anti-Feminism in Treklit
* interviewed in 2017, see Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Susan R. Matthews (2017)
* in 2020, contributed an essay about fanzine history to Geek Elders Speak, a small press publication anthology about female creativity in mid-20th century fandom.https://forestpathbooks.com/geek-elders-speak/
==Short 1978 Bio==
==Short 1982 Bio==
In 1982, she was nominated for a FanQ award and submitted the following bio to The Annual Fan Q Awards Nominations Booklet: 
==Notable Fanworks==
===Blake's 7===
* Bolero
* Brother of Shadows... and Son of the Light
* The Great Lord Shiva's Dance (crossover with Drake's Venture)
* Love and Necessary Discipline
* The Mind of a Man is a Double-Edged Sword
*October Story
* Sarabande
* Shadowplay
===Star Wars===
* The Baron of Bespin
* In Durance Vile: A Reprehensible Tale
* Ghost in Far Sector
* A Jedi Craves Not These Things
* Kinmeet
* The Ragnarok Stories (pulled from publication in order to rework the stories into a professional science fiction novel; the work was published as the Jurisdiction series)
* The Things We Do For Love
===Other===
* The Extraordinary Discretion Affair (Man from U.N.C.L.E.)
* The Great Goddess Addresses the Subject of Hurt/Comfort (circuit story)
==Zines She Appears In==
===As Susan Matthews===
5th Season | Against the Sith | Alderaani Imperative | Antithesis | Bright Center of the Universe | Brother of Shadows... and Son of the Light | Crimes Against Humanity | Docking Bay | Dracula | Empire Star | Equal Space | Errantry | Falcon's Flight | Galactic Falcon | Galactic Flight | Guardian | Hip Deep in Heroes | Imperial Entanglements | JediStarDarkFalconKnight | Kessel Run | Mascarada | The Mind of a Man is a Double-Edged Sword | The Mos Eisley Tribune | My Master's Patronage | Organia | The Other Side | The Other Side of Paradise | Outlands Chronicles | Powerplay | R & R | Relative Encounters | The Rest of the Garbage| Shadowplay (Blake's 7 zine) | Skywalker | Solo | Southern Seven | Spica | Straight Blake's | The Tatooine Tribune | Time Warp | A Tremor in the Force | Twin Suns | Warped Space | Whatever Works | Xenozine
===As Alicia Maria Susanna Fox===
The Rest of the Garbage | Straight Blake's | Xenozine
== Stance on Fanworks Based on Her Work == 
As a professional writer of science fiction, Matthews has published the following statement on fanfiction of her works:
==The Ragnarok Stories ==
Matthews' Ragnarok was a series of Star Wars (and at least one Star Trek appearance in The Other Side of Paradise #5) fanzine stories that featured the original character Andrej Koscuisko.
The stories originally appeared in:
* Galactic Flight #3 (1980) -- "The Devil and Deep Space," co-authored with Christine Jeffords
* Galactic Flight #4 (1980) -- "Second Round" 
* The Other Side of Paradise #5 (1981) -- "Koski's Last Hand"
* My Master's Patronage (December 1981) (fanfic in honor of the original character Andrej Koscuisko)
In 1981, Matthews announced in a number of zines that she was pulling her from publication in order to rework the Ragnarok stories into a science fiction format in an attempt to sell the collection as a professional SF novel. She detailed this decision in A Personal Statement from Susan Matthews.
The Ragnarok series was later re-titled "The Jurisdiction" and was sold in the late '90s. The first book, An Exchange of Hostages, was published in 1997, with the seventh book being published in 2017.
==An Unauthorized Complilation==
In Issue 17 of the zine Universal Translator, Matthews wrote a letter stating that she had heard that a fan using the name Inclination Press out of Tsaile, Arizona was reproducing and selling Ragnarok stories with Martynn's artwork without authorization:
The editor of Facets stated in the editorial from the sixth issue: 
A fan who lived in that town reported in Jundland Wastes #13 that she did some detective work, going to the post office in Tsaile, Arizona and questioned the staff there. Her report: 
==References==
Category:Fanwriters