Vicki Clark

Vicki Clark was a slash and het fan writer, fan poet and fanzine publisher. She is perhaps best known for her work on Nome an early influential Star Trek fanzine and the Star Trek novel Broken Images. She won a FanQ award for Best Editor in 1980, again for Best Zine in 1989, and Best Letterzine in 1991. In 1983, "Nome" also won her and co-editor Barbara Storey a TrekStar Award for Best Zine. Issues #3-9 of "Nome" won the Surak Awards for Best Fanzine Editing.
Together with Barbara Storey she published Star Trek zines under the name Jumping Dik-Bat Press and then under the name of Artemis Press in the 1990s.
Clark was one of The Gang of Six. See The Gang of Six and "Courts of Honor".
She passed on September 29, 2009.
==Courts of Honor==
After Syn Ferguson failed to publish the highly anticipated fanzine Courts of Honor, a group of fans calling themselves The Gang of Six and headed by Victoria Clark, took it upon themselves to put out an edition and give copies to those who had paid years earlier (selling Heatwave, one of Syn's S/H stories, to raise money for the project). The five fans (Barbara Storey, Bev Sutherland, Alta Brewer, Edi Bjorklund and Victoria Clark) pooled their resources to do a fairly small print run (probably for lack of money), so the zine was hard to come by. Any excess funds raised by the sales went to repay those who had pre-ordered the zines from Syn Ferguson. The group estimated that they were able to repay 2/3 to 3/4 of the funds. From "An Interview with Victoria Clark, published in Legacy (Star Trek: TOS slash anthology). 
==On Finding Fandom ==
In 2007, Vicki gave an interview which was published in Legacy.
==On Meeting Other Fans==
After attending her first fan convention, Vicki soon found herself at the center of fan efforts to bring Spock to the first Star Trek movie, Star Trek: The Motion Picture. From there she found herself part of a circle of friends that would go on to publish numerous fanzines. Again from her Legacy interview.
==On Selling Zines At Conventions==
Many conventions used to split the fanzine dealer's room from the main dealer's room. The fanzine dealer's rooms were often tucked away and hard to find, but fans still managed to find their way to buy zines. Vicki writes: "In 1986, that year at Shore Leave, renovations were being done on the Hunt Valley Inn. In order to get to the zine dealers room, everyone had to go through the kitchen area and up a long flight of stairs. We called it climbing the steps to Mt. Seleya. It was a complete mess!" 
==Interviews==
* Not Tonight, Spock! Interview with Victoria Clark & Barbara Storey (1984)
* Legacy Interview with Victoria Clark (2007)
==Additional Memories==
Additional excerpts from Vicki's Legacy interview can be found at:
*Nome - on publishing the zine 
*Broken Images - on publishing the zine
*Kiscon - on attending the convention
==Zine Involvement==
* Broken Images
* Companion
* Courts of Honor
* Enter-comm
* Legacy
* Nexus
* Nome
* Scuttlebutt
* Starborne
* Starsong
* Tunneltalk
* Vault of Tomorrow
==Memorial/Remembrances==
*"I met Vicki in 1979. I’d been in fandom for four years by then; I’d been to conventions; I’d published fanzines. But in many ways I was a complete neo. One of the things I most wanted to do was to meet and get to know some of the East Coast fans who I had been corresponding with. That involved going to east coast Star Trek conventions – starting with a big one in NYC (one of the Townsley conventions, if anyone remembers those). I grew up in a town with three stoplights and no building taller than two stories. The idea of going to *Manhattan* by *myself* was incredibly intimidating. But Vicki made everything so easy – she arranged for two roommates for me to stay with at the hotel, both of whom I’m still in contact with. She introduced me around, she invited me to her room parties. She, and her co-editor, published my first K/S story and some of my other writings. She made me feel welcome to fandom in every way."catalenamara's In Memory of Victoria Clark, long time friend, K/S fan, editor of Nome dated June 17, 2012; WebCite.
*"Vicki was also an enthusiastic and accomplished cook. Here is a video of her cooking on New Years Eve 1995."Vicki Cooking Vegetarian Arborio Rice (YouTube)
==References==
Category:Deceased
Category:Fanwriters