TM Alexander

Fan
Name:	TM Alexander
Alias(es):	Tam, Tami Marie, Robyn LaSalle, Coyote Dreams, Jung, Sunny Bernaise, Cassandra Zeus, TM Allen, Stancio del Norte, N.E. Slashfan, rj burnett, N.E. Slashfan, Julian, ME, Seraph, Angi Towski, Mariah Burke, Emily Ross, Desiree Falcon, Mireanna, Sabryna, others
Type:	writer, zine editor and publisher, con chair, artist, vidder
Fandoms:	BBC Sherlock, Nolanverse (Batman/Joker), 21 Jump Street, Smallville, Invisible Man, Miami Vice, Sentinel, due South, Man from U.N.C.L.E., XF, SH, Quantum Leap, Kiefer/Lou (Lost Boys, Young Guns, Renegades), others
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Other:	Currently self-published under Metamorphoses Press [1]
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TM Alexander (known by many names, see sidebar) has left her mark on numerous fandoms over the past 25 years. She is an award-winning writer, artist, zine editor and publisher (The Presses, Heart of the Matter Press, Otter Limits Press, Bodacious Press), and is the creator of the bfrksex.wav. The below timeline is from her 2002 "fannish resume." She also vidded under the name of Winged Cat Productions.

Interview

• Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with TM Alexander (2012)

Fiction

TM Alexander's first fan fiction story was written in 1981, a "sequel" to The Empire Strikes Back.

In the editorial for Tales from the Tomato, she credits "Journey's End" by Rosemary C as the story that caused her to start writing Starsky and Hutch fiction.

Sample Art

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  interior art in Miami Spice #2

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  interior art in Miami Spice #2

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  interior art in Miami Spice #2

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  interior art in Wild Cards #4

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  interior art in SeXFiles

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  From Love of My Life, a Kiefer/Lou anthology zine, 1993

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  cover of Renegade Souls

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  cover of SeXFiles

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  cover of The Boys are Back

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  cover of Wild Cards #1

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  cover of Interludes (Kiefer/Lou zine) #1

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  interior art Wild Cards #4

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  interior art Wild Cards #5

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  interior art from Sex Files

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  interior art from Sex Files

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  interior art from Sex Files

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  interior art Wild Cards #5

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  interior art from Tales from the Tomato

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  from the Sentinel zine Sentry Duty #9 (2005)

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  from the Sentinel zine Sentry Duty #10 (2006)

Vids

• The Ballad of Jim & Blair (The Sentinel)

Stories Published By Year

(dates cited from Tam's fannish resume, which states that they are to the best of her knowledge)

1986

• "The Rain, Rain Go Away Affair" The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (gen), 11 & 2 #2

1987

• The Circle of Stones Affair (gen); winner of 1988 Fan Q Award for Best Novel
• "The 11:59 Affair" - 11 & 2 Holiday '87
• "Who Wants to Live Forever" - Karmic Concurrence 1

1988

• The Dream Within a Dream Affair (gen); nominated for 1989 Fan Q Award for Best Novel
• One Night Stand (slash; The Man From U.N.C.L.E.); winner of Fan Q Award (1990?) for Best Novel
• Lost in the Shadows - slash novel, "sequel" to vampire film The Lost Boys; gave birth to Kiefer/Lou fandom

1989

• "The Greensleeves Affair" - 11 & 2 Holiday '89
• Interludes 1 - Collection of slash stories centering on characters played by Kiefer Sutherland and Lou Diamond Phillips.
• "Islands" and assorted poems - Rose Tint My World 1; The Man From U.N.C.L.E. slash
• "All I Know" ? Miami Vice slash (Crockett/Castillo) - Dyad 3
• "Fragile" - 21 Jump Street slash (Tom/Doug) - Dyad 4

1990

• The Second Power slash "sequel" to film The First Power, (Kiefer/Lou)
• "Home for the Holidays", "Starting Over" and assorted poems - Rose Tint My World 2
• Interludes 2 - Various stories and poems 21 Jump Street
• The Choir Boys (21 Jump Street) slash collection of stories and poems
• "Til Tomorrow" Young Guns slash, "In Hiding" 21 Jump Street slash - Dyad 5
• "Crossroads" and "Parallel Lines" 21 Jump Street slash - Dyad 6
• "Under the Cherry Moon" Miami Vice slash, "Aloha-Oy!" 21 Jump Street slash - Fruit Cocktail

1991

• "Break on Through to the Other Side" and assorted poems - Rose Tint My World 3
• "Feel So Different" (Miami Vice), "Crazy Little Thing Called Lovejoy" (Lovejoy), and assorted poems - Wild Cards 1 (multimedia slash anthology)
• "Young Love" Young Guns slash - Adult Situations 5
• "The Tao of Love" and assorted poems - Miami Spice 1
• "Closer to Heaven", "Light of the World" and assorted poems Miami Spice 2
• "Lovers' Leap" - slash, various stories and poems Quantum Leap
• Carry On, Wayward Son - slash; winner of Fan Q Award for Best Miami Vice Novel

1992

• "Never Too Old" (Lethal Weapon), "Lamb of Love" (The Silence of the Lambs), "Save It Till The Morning After" (Miami Vice), assorted poems Wild Cards 2 (multimedia slash anthology); Pillow Talk (slash collection of stories and poems, assorted fandoms)
• "In Days of Olde" and "My Generation" and assorted poems - Rose Tint My World 4
• "Incense and Peppermints" Quantum Leap slash, "Talking in Your Sleep" Twin Peaks slash - Dyad 7

1993

• "Blood Moon" (X-Files), "Once and For All" (Magnum PI), "Agent Cooper's Guide to Peaking" (Twin Peaks), "Dreamer's Ball" (The Man From U.N.C.L.E.), "Psychobabble" (The X-Files), "Sleepover" (Dept S), "Pathos" (Disney's Three Musketeers), "God Bless the Child" (Magnum PI), "Lap of the Gods" (Stargate: SG1), "No Secrets" (Lethal Weapon), and assorted poems - Wild Cards 3 (multimedia slash anthology)
• "Ship of Fools" - Karmic Concurrence 2
• "Harden My Heart" Miami Vice slash - Dyad 8
• "Whose Sex Life Is It, Anyway?" 21 Jump Street slash - Dyad 9

1994

• "Ante Up" (21 Jump Street), "Key West" (Miami Vice), "Original Sin" (The X-Files), "The Hatred of a Minute" (Starsky & Hutch), "Paradox" (Twin Peaks/The X-Files), "The Memory Lane Affair" (The Man From U.N.C.L.E.), "Addendum" (The X-Files), "Different Corner" (Renegades), and assorted poems - Wild Cards 4 (multimedia slash anthology)
• "Promises", "Truth or Dare", "Snow Kiss'd" and "A Midsummer Night's Fantasy" and assorted poems - Rose Tint My World 5
• I Still Believe - Sequel to Lost in the Shadows, second novel in proposed trilogy
• "Birthday Gift" Renegades slash story, Boys Are Back 2
• The 9th Invocation - The X-Files novel, slash (Mulder/Skinner) and gen versions
• Turn of a Friendly Card - novel set in original homoerotic science fiction universe
• Interludes 3 - Various stories and poems

1995

• "Homecoming" (Miami Vice), "Heart's Filthy Lesson" (The X-Files), "Pleasure Little Treasure" (SeaQuest), "Mighty Aphrodite's Revenge" (Hercules), "Spare the Rod" (The X-Files), "Change the World" (original cop characters, homoerotic), "Estrus" (The X-Files/The Silence of the Lambs), "Something to Sink Your Teeth Into" (Jaws), "Grounds for Divorce" (The Man From U.N.C.L.E.), and assorted poems - Wild Cards 5 (multimedia slash anthology)
• "Port in a Storm", "Desperately Seeking Sonny", "A Boy and His Dad", "Pillow Book" (winner of Fan Q Award for Best Miami Vice Story), and assorted poems Miami Spice 3
• Achates' Quest - novel, sequel to Turn of a Friendly Card, original fiction
• Interludes 4 - Various stories and poems
• Tales from the Tomato - Starsky & Hutch slash collection of stories and poems

1996

• Bright Lights, Black Leather Miami Vice slash novel; nominated for Fan Q Award
• Interludes 5 - Various stories and poems
• Love of My Life - Various stories and poems of original homerotic fantasy stories
• "Cabin Fever", "Til Death Do I Part", "I Cling Forever", "Never Too Late", and "Before the Grace of You Go I" and assorted poems - Rose Tint My World 6
• The 9th Invocation (The X-Files) novel; gen & slash (Mulder/Skinner) versions

1997

• Bayou - The X-Files novel, slash (Mulder/Skinner) and gen versions
• "Rendezvous", "The Last Great Innocent", "Rush", "Trinity", "Change of Scenery" and various poems seXFiles - Nominated for several Fan Q Awards
• "Poe" - Mulder's Spooktown Cafe - gen anthology, The X-Files
• Sea of Solaris - Collection of stories in original homoerotic science fiction universe
• Gemini - The Sentinel novel, slash and gen versions
• Sentiments - The Sentinel slash collection of stories

1998

• "Sin City" and "Sleepless Nights" - Missing Links 1 - The Sentinel slash anthology zine
• "Queen for a Day" and assorted poems - 852 Prospect 1- The Sentinel slash anthology zine
• Transience - The Sentinel slash novel

1999

• Broken Wings - The Sentinel novel, slash and gen versions
• Sentiments Too - The Sentinel slash collection of stories; winner 2000 Fan Q Award Best Sentinel Story
• "Doubting Ellisons", "Baby Needs a New Pair of Shoes", "The Iceman Hurteth" and assorted poems Missing Links 2- The Sentinel slash anthology zine

2000

• Northwest Passage - Due South novel (Fraser/RayK), winner of 2001 Huggy for Best Due South Novel
• "Strictly Canadian" - The Full Mountie (Fraser/RayK), winner of 2001 Huggy for Best Due South Story

2001

• Funny Business - The Invisible Man slash novel
• Gris Gris - The Sentinel novel, slash and gen versions
• "San Diego Surprise", "Old Haunts", "Beach Blanket Boink" -Straight to Naughtyville 1
• Grief Has Its Own Time Frame - Due South slash novel

2002

• Retribution - The Sentinel slash novel
• Twisted Sister - The Invisible Man slash novel

2013

• The Blue Daemon BBC Sherlock Johnlock novel

2014

• Werewolves of London BBC Sherlock Johnlock novel

Zines - Editor/Publisher:

A=Award-winners, N=Nominated

21 Jump Street:

• The Choir Boys

BBC Sherlock:

• The Blue Daemon (A)
• Werewolves of London (A)

Due South:

• The Brothers Kowalski
• Walking in the Sky (N)
• The Full Mountie (A)
• Northwest Passage (A)
• Grief Has Its Own Time Frame

The Invisible Man:

• Straight to Naughtyville
• Funny Business
• Twisted Sister

Kiefer/Lou:

• Interludes 1-5
• Love of My Life
• Lost in the Shadows
• I Still Believe
• The Second Power
• Renegade Souls

Original - The GESE Universe:

• Turn of a Friendly Card
• Achates' Quest
• Sea of Solaris

Quantum Leap:

• Lovers' Leap (N)

The Man From U.N.C.L.E.:

• 11&2 2-6 (A)
• 11& 2 Holiday '87
• 11&2 Holiday '89 (A)
• Rose Tint My World 1-6 (A)
• Karmic Concurrence 1-2 (N)
• The Heart of the Matter Affair
• The Practical Cats Affair (A)

Miami Vice:

• Miami Spice 1-3 (A)
• Along the Road of Dreams
• Phone Sex (A)
• Bright Lights, Black Leather(N)

Mixed Media:

• Wild Cards 1-5 (A)
• Pillow Talk

The Sentinel:

• 852 Prospect 1-2 (A)
• Missing Links 1-2 (A)
• Gemini
• Broken Wings
• Transience
• Storm Signs
• The Jamie Series
• Web After Dark
• Gris Gris
• Retribution

The X-Files:

• The 9th Invocation
• Enoch Arden
• Mulder's Spooktown Cafe?
• Bayou (N)
• Paradigm Shift
• seXFiles(N)

Awards Won:

• Fan Quality (Fan Q): Best Zine, Best Editor, Best Novel, Best Story, Best Artist;
• Huggy: Best Novel, Best Story;
• STIFfie: Best Novel, Best Story;
• Waverly: Best Zine;
• ZebraCon Writing Contest: Zebracon 13, ZebraCon 14

CONVENTIONS

First Fan Convention: MediaWest*Con 3 (Lansing)

• Date: Memorial Day Weekend 1983 (Tam's comment: "I'm home.")

Fan Conventions Attended (By Year)

D=Dealer, G=Gofer, S=Security, A=Art Show, H=Host

• 1983 - MediaWest*Con 3
• 1984 - MediaWest*Con 4 (G)
• 1985 - MediaWest*Con 5 (G)
• 1986 - MediaWest*Con 6, SpyCon (Chicago) (D), Windycon (Chicago) (D)
• 1987 - OmniCon (Ft. Lauderdale) (D), MediaWest*Con 7 (D), Greenwood Con (England) (D, ScorpioCon (Chicago) (A) (D), SpyCon (D), ZebraCon 9 (D), Windycon (D), BabelCon (Grand Rapids)(D)
• 1988 - Contraption (Detroit) (D), MediaWest*Con 8 (D), SlutCon (Boyne City) (H), ScorpioCon (D)
• 1989 - MediaWest*Con 9 (D), SlutCon 2 (Traverse City) (H), ZebraCon 10 (D), Pretty Good Con (Lansing)(D)
• 1990 - "A Beach to Walk On" Con (San Diego) (D), RevelCon (Houston) (D), MediaWest*Con 10 (D), Shore Leave (Baltimore) (D)
• 1991 - RevelCon (D), MediaWest*Con 11 (D), Shore Leave (D), ZebraCon 11 (D), GrandCon (Grand Rapids)(D)
• 1992 - MediaWest*Con 12 (D), Some Baltimore Trek Con (D)
• 1993 - MediaWest*Con 13 (D)
• 1994 - Confusion (Detroit) (D), MediaWest*Con 14 (D)
• 1995 - MediaWest*Con 15 (D), ZebraCon 12 (D)
• 1996 - MediaWest*Con 16 (D)
• 1997 - MediaWest*Con 17 (D), ZebraCon 13 (A) (D)
• 1998 - MediaWest*Con 18 (D)
• 1999 - SentiCon 1 (H), MediaWest*Con 19 (D), ZebraCon 14 (D)
• 2000 - SentiCon 2 (H), MediaWest*Con 20 (D),SergeCon (Toronto) (H)
• 2001 - SentiCon 3 (H), MediaWest*Con 21 (D), ZebraCon 15 (D)
• 2002 - SentiCon 4 (H), MediaWest*Con 22 (D)
• 2003 - MediaWest*Con 23 (D)
• 2004 - SentiCon 5 (H), MediaWest*Con 24
• 2005 - MediaWest*Con 25
• 2006 - SentiCon 6 (H), MediaWest*Con 26
• 2007 - MediaWest*Con 27
• 2008 - MediaWest*Con 28
• 2009 - MediaWest*Con 29
• 2010 - MediaWest*Con 30 (S)
• 2011 - MediaWest*Con 31 (S)
• 2012 - MediaWest*Con 32 (S)
• 2013 - MediaWest*Con 33 (D), (S)
• 2014 - MediaWest*Con 34 (D)
• 2015 - MediaWest*Con 35
• 2016 - MediaWest*Con 36