Anji Valenza

Anji Valenza was a Star Trek: TOS writer, zine publisher, and artist. 
Valenza also illustrated some Darkover zines. 
Valenza (later Fa Shimbo) also published a series of written and drawn stories set in her Klysadel universe.
 
Shimbo also operated Special Rates To Fen Press.
==Bios==
===1977===
In 1977, she submitted the following bio to Who's Who in Star Trek Fandom.
===2021===
==Lots of Star Wars Art in "Tightbeam"==
Valenza contributed much Star Wars art, mainly in the form of cartoons, to Tightbeam.
In November 1977, Valenza commented: 
==A 1978 Statement: Star Trek Was Simply a Hook ==
In the zine, Snow on the Moon, the author explains her connection to Star Trek fandom and how it was a planned hook to get readers for her Klysadel Universe:
==Zines to Which Valenza Contributed==
* The Asymmetrical Star
* Fuhura
* It Takes All Kinds
* Interphase
* Menagerie
* Mindsifter
* Monkey of the Inkpot (editor)
* The Ninth Quadrant
* Obsc'zine
* The Other Side of Paradise
* Probe
* Snow on the Moon (Klysadel Universe)
* Sol Plus
 
* Tetrumbriant
* Tightbeam
* The Universes in Science Fiction
* Warped Space
* ΞΕΝΟΦΟΝ
==Sample Art==
===1974===
File:Probe2back.jpg|from original Probe #2
File:Tet1-2-7.jpg|from Tetrumbriant #1/2
File:Tet1-2-8.jpg|from Tetrumbriant #1/2
File:Tet1-2-10.jpg|from Tetrumbriant #1/2
===1975===
File:Probe3conbackcover.jpg|from original Probe #3: Laurie Dewitt as "Dragonwick" from HELPERS 
File:Probe5origfront.jpg|from original Probe #5: "Uhura and Eventide" (a different version was printed two years later as the cover of Probe 5, the Revised Edition)
File:Probe5origback.jpg|from original Probe #5
File:Probe6front.jpg|from original Probe #6: "Shandra and the Menace of N'Ganth"
File:Inkpot1-1.jpg|from Monkey of the Inkpot v.1 n.1
 
File:Inkpot3-2.jpg|from Monkey of the Inkpot v.1 n.3
File:Inkpot3-3.jpg|from Monkey of the Inkpot v.1 n.3
 
===1976===
File:Tetbest1front.jpg|from Tetrumbriant (Best Of Issue)
File:Probe7-2.jpg|from original Probe #7
File:Probe8art6.jpg|from original Probe #8
File:Inkpot4front.jpg|from Monkey of the Inkpot v.1 n.4
File:Men9art5.jpg|from Menagerie #9, for the story by Paula Smith: What Henoch Did
File:Mindsifter3-3.jpg|from Mindsifter
File:Mindsifter3-4.jpg|from Mindsifter
File:Goddessart4.jpg| from The Goddess Uhura
Image:probe9back.jpg|from original Probe #9 
Image:probe9art3.jpg|from original Probe #9 
===1977===
File:Warped28art3.jpg|from Warped Space #38 (Star Wars)
File:Warped29-30art7.jpg|from Warped Space #39 for Gohirsid Jon (Klysadel Universe)
Image:tightbeam7front.jpg|from Tightbeam #7 (July 1977) 
Image:probe10art1.jpg|from Probe #10 
Image:probe10art5.jpg|from Probe #10 
File:Picture 8.png|from Probe #10 
File:Warped28art2.jpg|from Warped Space #28
File:Warped29-30art7.jpg|from Warped Space #29/30
File:Jum1front.jpg|from Jumeaux #1
Image:probe5revisedfront.png|from revised Probe #5, "Uhura and Eventide" (a new version of the cover of the cover of the original Probe #5)
Image:probe5revisedback.jpg|from revised Probe #5
File:Probe5revisedart6.jpg|from revised Probe #5
===1978===
File:Warped3435-7.jpg|from Warped Space #34/35
File:Warpedspace38 Anji Valenza.jpg|from Warped Space #38 
File:Solplus5-3.jpg|from Sol Plus #5
 
File:Snow on the moon.jpg|from Snow on the Moon
 
Image:jum2front.jpg|from Jumeaux#2 
Image:jum2back.jpg|from Jumeaux #2
Image:jum3front.jpg|from Jumeaux #3, also used with Contes di Cottman IV #10
Image:jum3back.jpg|from Jumeaux #3
Image:jum4front.jpg|from Jumeaux #4
Image:jum4back.jpg|from Jumeaux #4
===1979===
File:Ninthquadrant3art6.jpg|from The Ninth Quadrant #3
===1982===
 
File:Jumthreefront.jpg| from Jumeaux (Definitive Issue 8, August 1982) - "Every time I pick up this issue of JUMEAUX, I am impressed by the cover illustration. Although perhaps a bit dark and grim for the cover of a zine, Fa Shimbo's sketch is artistically one of the best things I've seen in a zine for some time. Consider how the costumes of the women are simple and functional. The clenched toes and fists of the oath-taker are evidence of her tension. The darkness of the picture is obviously due to the fact that this scene is being enacted at night, perhaps in a way-shelter, and the only available light is the fire off-right. With that in mind, the shading is magnificently done." from a fan's LOC in Jumeaux Definitive Issue 9 
===1987===
 
 
 
File:Contes10back.jpg|from Contes di Cottman IV #10
==References==
Category:Fanwriters
Category:Fanartists
Category:Zine Publishers