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Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Maggie Nowakowska

In 2017, Maggie Nowakowska was interviewed by Megan Genovese as part of the Media Fandom Oral History Project.
Interview length: 2 hours and 41 minutes.
The Media Fandom Oral History Project is supported by the Organization for Transformative Works, the organizers of Escapade conventions, and the University of Iowa Libraries. For more information about the origins of this interview, where it is housed, contact information, suggestions regarding future interviewee candidates, and how to become volunteer interviewer or transcriber, see the Media Fandom Oral History Project page.
==Some Topics Discussed==
* her pseuds, her real name
* reading and discussing science fiction books and shows with her mom
* the fan club Starbase 12 was where Nowakowska got some fanzines, reading them, and thinking: "I can do this. I can do this better."
* making the decision to see Star Wars even before the movie came out due to observing a man named Kermit in an impressive Darth Vader at the Ballantine Books display at ABA, the Annual Library Association’s convention in San Francisco 
* the Star Wars stories Last Sanctuary and Phantom of Shadows
* the ThousandWorlds universe
* amazement regarding the amount of sex in fanfiction today
* agreeing with a fan's statement about Nowakowska: “You don’t write science fiction; you write sociology fiction.” 
* positive comments and memories about Bev Clark
* the mini-con Not a Con
* the zine JediStarDarkFalconKnight 
* comments about First Terran Enclave
* the beginnings of the The Fanzine Archives: A Library for the Preservation & Circulation of Fan-created Material
* "Luke Skywalker is a Mary Sue for George Lucas, if you’re going to go by their ways of doing it. James Bond is a Mary Sue for Ian Fleming, if you’re going to go by that definition."
* having to envision and worldbuild what "Sith" and "Dark Lords" were in fanfiction pre-canon
* being a guest of honor at the Italian annual science fiction convention, watching "Star Wars" in Italian
* how labels on stories have changed from identifying "simply a matter of “what kind of stories do you like to read?”" to warnings and contril 
* comments about Geekgirlcon
* "Keep your own Star Wars. The only Stars Wars that exists is the Star Wars you love, and everything else evolves from it."
==Excerpts==
 
==References==
 
Category:Star Wars Fan Interviews
Category:Blake's 7 Fan Interviews
Category:2017 Fan Interviews
Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Maygra

In 2013, Maygra was interviewed at Escapade as part of the Media Fandom Oral History Project.
Interview length: 1:09:24.
 
For more information about the origins of this interview, where it is housed, contact information, suggestions regarding future interviewee candidates, and how to become volunteer interviewer, see the Media Fandom Oral History Project page.
==Some Topics Discussed==
* much, much about Highlander
* vidding
*Citizens Against Bad Slash
* SlashFic Hall of Shame
* purposely combative comments on the internet
* Balkanization and LiveJournal
* warnings
==Excerpts==
==References==
Category:Highlander Fan Interviews
Category:2013 Fan Interviews
Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Nancy B.

In 2015, Nancy B. was interviewed by Franzeska Dickson at Escapade as part of the Media Fandom Oral History Project.
 
The interview's length: 48.39. A written transcript is available.
For more information about the origins of this interview, where it is housed, contact information, suggestions regarding future interviewee candidates, and how to become volunteer interviewer, see the Media Fandom Oral History Project page.
==Some Topics Discussed==
* attending the second big Star Trek on in New York City in the 1970s
* winning a kiss from Paul Darrow in a fan auction
* the challenges of sending explicit print zines overseas
* seeing Star Trek on a color television for the first time after it went into syndication
* the long, long waits between letters from fellow fans, and how much faster communication is today
* many technical descriptions of producing print zines 
* much about her friendship with M. Fae Glasgow and their collaborations regarding Oblique Publications
* Virgule mailing list
* recounts the time Lewis Collins helped her put boxes of slash zines in a car
* hanging out at cons with Sandy Herrold
* the changing term of "multimedia"
* sharing a room with Henry Jenkins, his wife, and other fans at a con sometime before Textual Poachers was published
* her thoughts on the differences between Enterprising Women and Textual Poachers
* the changing nature of fandom in the very early 2000s and the advent of online access
* the advantages of maintaining a good boundary with the celebrities themselves: "Stay away from actors. [laughter] Stick to fantasy. Stick to fiction." 
* her experiences with an unnamed APA
* some fandoms discussed, or touched upon: Highlander, Blake's 7, Starsky & Hutch, Buffy, Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Professionals, The Phantom Menace, Star Trek
==Excerpts==
 
 
Category:2015 Fan Interviews
Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Pat Massie

In 2012, Pat Massie was interviewed at SHareCon as part of the Media Fandom Oral History Project.
Length: 13:10. For more information about the origins of this interview, where it is housed, contact information, suggestions regarding future interviewee candidates, and how to become volunteer interviewer, see the Media Fandom Oral History Project page.
==Topics Discussed==
* poetry
* early cons
* explicit sex in fanworks
* Starsky & Hutch
==Excerpts==
Category:2012 Fan Interviews
Category:Starsky & Hutch Fan Interviews
Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Paula Block

In 2017, Paula Block was interviewed by Megan Genovese as part of the Media Fandom Oral History Project.
Interview length: about 75 minutes.
The Media Fandom Oral History Project is supported by the Organization for Transformative Works, the organizers of Escapade conventions, and the University of Iowa Libraries. For more information about the origins of this interview, where it is housed, contact information, suggestions regarding future interviewee candidates, and how to become volunteer interviewer or transcriber, see the Media Fandom Oral History Project page.
==Some Topics Discussed==
* moving from creating fanworks to professional tie-in novels and materials
* meeting spouse at a con that he'd been attending in a professional, promotional capacity
* meeting Harlan Ellison at a Kwest*Con in 1974, a small mention of the chicken dinner
* differences in various conventions
* writing for the Kraith universe
* Paula Smith and the origin of the term Mary Sue
* editing the first media zine, Syndizine
* Block's editing vs writing
* George Lucas' Open Letters to Star Wars Zine Publishers (1981)
* Block's views on slash fanworks
* writing the Gumby con skits
* working with John Ordover
==Excerpts==
 
==References==
 
Category:Star Trek TOS Fan Interviews
Category:2017 Fan Interviews
Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Rachael Sabotini

In 2015, Rachael Sabotini was interviewed at Escapade as part of the Media Fandom Oral History Project.
Total time: 1:10:57. A written transcript is available.
For more information about the origins of this interview, where it is housed, contact information, suggestions regarding future interviewee candidates, and how to become volunteer interviewer, see the Media Fandom Oral History Project page.
==Some Topics Discussed==
* Sandy Hereld
* VCR vidding
* vidding
* Media Cannibals
* vidding mentors
* Cali Crew
* Clucking Belles
* Pros fandom, the circuit
* "the smaller the stakes, the bigger the drama"
* television fandoms vs movie fandoms
* Highlander, Stargate: Atlantis, Starsky & Hutch, Harry & Johnny
* cons, the tameness of them now
* filk singing at cons
* Society for Creative Anachronism
* Koon-ut-Cali-Con, Vividcon, Escapade
* graduate students of the future
* the horrors of old word processors
* the origins of some pseudonyms
 
==Excerpts==
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Category:2015 Fan Interviews
Category:Vidder Interviews
Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Randy Landers

In 2017, Randy Landers was interviewed by Megan Genovese as part of the Media Fandom Oral History Project.
Interview length: 1:26:47.
The Media Fandom Oral History Project is supported by the Organization for Transformative Works, the organizers of Escapade conventions, and the University of Iowa Libraries. For more information about the origins of this interview, where it is housed, contact information, suggestions regarding future interviewee candidates, and how to become volunteer interviewer or transcriber, see the Media Fandom Oral History Project page.
==Some Topics Discussed==
* getting hooked on Star Trek during the original airing and by reading Star Trek Lives!
* Randy wrote his first published fic in 1979 when he was 17, began publishing his zine Stardate when he was 18; he used some of the money he was given as a high school graduation present to publish the first two issues of that zine
* being very grateful to an aunt who gave him a free Olivetti Editor typewriter, despite the fact it had a rogue key "E"
* never being very satisfied with his own fiction and artwork, and feeling his talents lay in helping others create theirs via editing and publishing
* the fan film Potemkin, and other fan films he has created, many of which are on Vimeo and YouTube and are shown at various conventions
* only having one fanfic submission in four years, and he turned that into a film instead of a story in print
* the pleasant irony of having Joan Winston (one of the Big Name Fans fans who'd gotten Randy into fandom) edit one of Orion Press' zines, Number One while using the pseud "Wynn Jones"
* the statement that when Randy began publishing zines in 1979, that every Trek zine was a slash zine
* real life consequences due to having one's real name out there in the wild, and how that can be used against you
* Rick Berman and Brannon Braga and their ruination of Trek, and how ceasing his publication for zines that were not Classic Trek was a good decision: "I made the right decision. So you've never regretted that decision at all. The only thing I regret is that I lost a lot of friends. I really did. But you know what I'd do it again. That's what's sad is I would do it again, stand by your decision, right or wrong."
==Excerpts==
==References==
 
Category:2017 Fan Interviews
Category:Star Trek TOS Fan Interviews
Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Rebecca Oroukin

In 2017, Rebecca Oroukin was interviewed by Megan Genovese as part of the Media Fandom Oral History Project.
Interview length: 01:27:13.
The Media Fandom Oral History Project is supported by the Organization for Transformative Works, the organizers of Escapade conventions, and the University of Iowa Libraries. For more information about the origins of this interview, where it is housed, contact information, suggestions regarding future interviewee candidates, and how to become volunteer interviewer or transcriber, see the Media Fandom Oral History Project page.
==Some Topics Discussed==
* Oroukin very much views Star Trek through a military lens, as Oroukin's career was in the United States Air Force
* identifying with Spock due to his intelligence and detachment, it echoed being a smart female in the 1950s, 1960s 
* being one of the first fans in the Star Trek Welcommittee to answer fan letters, how that organization was "overcome by technology"
* being a fan in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area, how fandom could be very regional then
* controversy surrounding Trinette Kern and her zines
* seeing, and supporting, Leonard Nimoy at the last Creation Cons he attended before he died
* memories about Leonard's Pennsy & Otherwise Freaks, a fan writing club she started
* disliking Kraith because "The Vulcans are all constipated and the humans are idiots."
* comments about Pittsburgh Star Trektacular
* the state of cons today: fan run cons vs the pro cons
* comments about the essay co-written with Connie Faddis, To Slay or Not to Slay: Why We Write 'Get-em' Stories -- & Love 'em! which addressed the genre hurt/comfort, and how this led, in part, to slash fanworks
==Excerpts==
 
==References==
 
Category:Star Trek TOS Fan Interviews
Category:2017 Fan Interviews
Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Roberta B

In 2012, Roberta B was interviewed at MediaWest as part of the Media Fandom Oral History Project.
Length: 56:50. A written transcript is available.
 
For more information about the origins of this interview, where it is housed, contact information, suggestions regarding future interviewee candidates, and how to become volunteer interviewer, see the Media Fandom Oral History Project page.
==Some Topics Discussed==
* her fannish start in Detroit and her move to California fandom
* getting Marion Zimmer Bradley and Isaac Asimov mistaken for other authors, and their reactions to this mistake
* Pros, Stargate, Starsky and Hutch, Garak/Bashir, Blake's 7, Due South fandoms
* on being a Ray V fan
* Freedom's Just Another Word for Nothing Left To Lose
* Kraith
* print zines, the circuit
* how fandom changes and yet stays the same
* her views on fanart, poems, and vids
==Excerpts==
Category:2012 Fan Interviews
Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Roberta Rogow

In 2017, Roberta Rogow was interviewed as part of the Media Fandom Oral History Project. The interviewee was Megan Genovese.
Length: 2h 42mins 50s.
For more information about the origins of this interview, where it is housed, contact information, suggestions regarding future interviewee candidates, and how to become volunteer interviewer, see the Media Fandom Oral History Project page.
==Topics Discussed==
* learning about Star Trek: TOS, of being a fan of the competency of the female (and male) characters on the show 
* being a fan of the optimism of Gene Roddenberry's vision for the future
* meeting the Star Trek actors, seeing them on the "college lecture circuit" in the early to mid 1970s
* opinions about the Townsley Cons
* going on some Star Trek Cruises via Vulkon, being on a cruise and singing Banned from Argo
* Xenofilkia, Barry and Lee Gold
* description of Trexindex
* comments about Memory Alpha Star Trek Club
* attending many cons, organizing a terrible one (Augustrek in 1980)
* singing her first filks at August Party, officially getting into filking in about 1980
* her filk tapes and their distribution, her long-running filk zine Rec-Room Rhymes
* costuming
* being the children's' librarian at several New Jersey libraries, storing her personal Star Trek: TOS zine library there, losing her job in part to spending too much time on personal interests, the zines in the Paterson Library (also the ones used to created ten years of Trexindex being donated to fan who lost them all in Hurricane Floyd
* much about the inspiration and production of the long-running zine series, Grip
* much about the original character and the zine, The Compleat Dirtie Nellie
* the popularity and creation of print fanzines going into a big decline after about 1996 because that was when many people go personal computers
* her dislike of online fiction
* her dislike of slash fanworks
* The Grantville Gazette, Jim Baen, Eric Flint and an alternate history universe called 1632
* memories and appreciation for Bill Hupe
* experiences as a filker, being inducted into the Filker Hall of Fame
* being a fan of Star Trek: The Next Generation, a bit of Deep Space Nine, not so much a fan of Star Trek: Voyager or Star Trek: Enterprise
* personally identifying as a Trekker, rather than a Trekkie
* Darkover fandom
* interaction with Trek PTB 
* advice for new fans
==From the Interview==
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
==References==
Category:2017 Fan Interviews
Category:Star Trek TOS Fan Interviews
Category:Filk Fan Interviews
Category:Cosplay & Costuming Fan Interviews
Category:Darkover
Category: Marion Zimmer Bradley Fan Interviews
Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Roberta Stuemke

In 2012, Roberta Stuemke was interviewed by Franzeska Dickson at MediaWest as part of the Media Fandom Oral History Project.
Length: 1:07:20. A written transcript is available.
 
For more information about the origins of this interview, where it is housed, contact information, suggestions regarding future interviewee candidates, and how to become volunteer interviewer, see the Media Fandom Oral History Project page.
==Topics Discussed==
* writing fic and being jossed
* real life identity and fandom
* Star Wars, Blake's 7, The Professionals
* views on slash and gen
* changes in fandom
* the rift between book fans and media fans/science fiction fans and media fans
* the decline of editing in fanfiction now that it is all online, the necessity of a good editor
* the scourge that is an unfinished WIP, her dislike of cliffhangers
==Excerpts==
[regarding her decision to not use a pseud]: 
[regarding being a gen fan, her fanac]: 
[more on slash as an alternative universe, and The Professionals]: 
[wanting her fic to feel as though "it could have been filmed"]: 
[fandom and money]: 
[on the rift between book/media fans]: 
[fannish platforms, original fiction]: 
[on fandom in general]: 
Category:2012 Fan Interviews
Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Ruth Berman

In 2017, Ruth Berman was interviewed via email as part of the Media Fandom Oral History Project.
For more information about the origins of this interview, where it is housed, contact information, suggestions regarding future interviewee candidates, and how to become volunteer interviewer, see the Media Fandom Oral History Project page.
==Some Topics Discussed and Mentioned==
* the zines T-Negative, Despatch, The Cost of the Cheeseboard, Masiform D, Inside Star Trek, others
* Blake's 7 and Star Trek
* sequels to fan stories, unauthorized and otherwise
* RPF
* creating zines
* the Dorothy-Myfanwy stories
* Harlan Ellison, Bjo Trimble
* Kraith stories and Jacqueline Lichtenberg
==Ruth's Comments==
==References==
Category:2017 Fan Interviews
Category:Star Trek TOS Fan Interviews
Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with SH

In 2013, SH was interviewed over the phone as part of the Media Fandom Oral History Project.
Interview length: 47:34. A written transcript is available.
For more information about the origins of this interview, where it is housed, contact information, suggestions regarding future interviewee candidates, and how to become volunteer interviewer, see the Media Fandom Oral History Project page.
==Some Topics Discussed==
* Virgule-L
* Blake's 7 fandom
* Rosemary Sutcliff, The Eagle fandom
* the anonymity of the internet
* LiveJournal
* finding fandom and fans
* MediaWest*Cons in the 1990s, zine feeding frenzies and the dealers room
* slash 
* Lysator
* The Blake's 7 Wars meant one could buy a lot of B7 zines cheap
* InConJunction ("a science fiction convention than a media convention, but it had a fairly substantial media component, and George R. R. Martin came one year"), Zebracon 
* discussions on AOL as opposed to ones on Usenet
==Excerpts==
==References==
Category:2013 Fan Interviews
Category:Blake's 7 Fan Interviews
Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Sheila Clark

In 2017, Sheila Clark was interviewed via email as part of the Media Fandom Oral History Project.
For more information about the origins of this interview, where it is housed, contact information, suggestions regarding future interviewee candidates, and how to become volunteer interviewer, see the Media Fandom Oral History Project page.
==Some Topics Discussed==
* the zine series Variations on a Theme
* Star Trek
* The Sentinel
* underground fic
* differences in British and American zines, and writing
==Excerpts==
==References==
Category:2017 Fan Interviews
Category:Star Trek TOS Fan Interviews
Category:Sentinel Fan Interviews
Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Shoshanna

In 2015, Shoshanna was interviewed at Escapade as part of the Media Fandom Oral History Project.
Interview length: 1:10:57. A written transcript is available.
 
For more information about the origins of this interview, where it is housed, contact information, suggestions regarding future interviewee candidates, and how to become volunteer interviewer, see the Media Fandom Oral History Project page.
==Some Topics Discussed==
* Star Trek, The Professionals, Space: Above and Beyond, Blake's 7
* reading fiction in fandoms she'd never watched the show for because the fiction was good, or she adored the authors
* being a fannish facilitator and volunteer at cons
* changes in con art shows, in sharing art, what the availability of the internet means to fanart
* slash as its own fandom
* Escapade
* Vividcon
* MediaWest*Con
* ZebraCon
* Pre-Reform Vulcan as canon Sex Pollen
* acafans, privacy
* We're Not Gay, We Just Love Each Other
* some places where fans discus fic are not places for the writer to engage in
* her fics: Never Let Me Down, Chains of Being, and 'Folded Arms' and Open Minds
==Excerpts==
==References==
Category:2015 Fan Interviews
Category:The Professionals Fan Interviews
Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Signe Danler

In 2017, Signe Danler was interviewed by Megan Genovese as part of the Media Fandom Oral History Project.
Interview length: .
The Media Fandom Oral History Project is supported by the Organization for Transformative Works, the organizers of Escapade conventions, and the University of Iowa Libraries. For more information about the origins of this interview, where it is housed, contact information, suggestions regarding future interviewee candidates, and how to become volunteer interviewer or transcriber, see the Media Fandom Oral History Project page.
==Some Topics Discussed==
* while in high school, she contacted Ruth Berman by mail to ask about Star Trek fandom and fanzines
* considered herself an illustrator, rather than an artist
* fandom and profit
* thoughts on the zine The Holmesian Federation and its wank
* fandom as fun and accepting and as a sense of community 
==Excerpts==
 
 
 
 
==References==
 
Category:2017 Fan Interviews
Category:Star Trek TOS Fan Interviews
Category:Cosplay & Costuming Fan Interviews
Category:Fan Artist Interviews
Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Snow White

In 2012, Snow White was interviewed at Escapade as part of the Media Fandom Oral History Project.
 
The length: 12:32:00. A written transcript is available.
For more information about the origins of this interview, other interviewees, where it is housed, contact information, suggestions regarding future interviewee candidates, and how to become volunteer interviewer, see the Media Fandom Oral History Project page.
==Some Topics Discussed==
* her fannish beginnings
* her involvement in Southern California Slashbashers
* fandom as a community
* reprinting Harlequin Airs and Master of the Revels
* receiving Magnificent Tails as a PBS membership premium (?!)
* the photocopy machine as a fandom savior
==Excerpts==
 
Category:2012 Fan Interviews