Eileen Roy
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| Name: | Eileen Roy |
| Alias(es): | Roy Smith (when writing with Paula Smith), Eros Twinbear/Eros Twinner |
| Type: | writer, editor, occasional artist |
| Fandoms: | Starsky and Hutch, A-Team, Man from UNCLE, Star Trek: TOS, Due South, Harry and Johnny, X-Files, Questor Tapes, Quantum Leap, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Magnificent Seven, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Star Wars, Professionals |
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| URL: | on AO3 |
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Eileen Roy is a gen and slash writer and editor.
Roy entered fandom in 1976 when she saw a television commercial advertising Equicon. "She attended, wandered around, picked up some zines, and went on from there." [1]
Roy was nominated for a FanQ in 1981 and offered this bio for herself:
"Eileen Roy has been in fandom some 10 years (EquiCon '71) and is interested in Trek, MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E., Mission Impossible,SW, etc. She's been published in KRAITH COLLECTED, INTERPHASE, THE OTHER SIDE OF PARADISE, Warped Space, IDIC, SYNDIZINE, and others she can't immediately recall. She's also broken into the pro market, most recently making a sale to the new TWILIGHT ZONE 'zine. Nominated for Favorite Short Story.
In 1989, she gave her reasons why she wasn't active in the fandom in the Linda Frankel article "Where Are They Now: Eileen Roy" featured in the issuee #12 of On the Double.
In 2018, Roy offered the following blanket statement: "Blanket permission for non-commercial remix, podfic, translation, art or fanvid creations or secondary fanwork creations of any of my fanworks with credit." [2]
Interview
Zines (as Roy Smith)
One Shot | Partners | The Pits | Podnahz | Syndizine | Ten-Thirteen | Zebra Three
Zines (as Eileen Roy)
The Best of... | Cold Fish and Stale Chips | CrosSignals | Crystal Singer | Deuce Double | The Eyes Have It! | The Farthest Star | Fireflight | Fruit Cocktail | Galactic Discourse | Green Eggs and Ham | Guardian | Here Lies Illya Kuryakin | IDIC | The Holmesian Federation | It Takes Time on Impulse | Incident UXP | Interphase | Kraith Collected | Krait-Spock's Anthropods | The Lion and the Lamb | A Little Past, A Little Future | Maine(ly) Trek | Menagerie | Mixed Media | Moonbeam | Naked Times | Obsc'zine | Off the Beaten Trek | Old Bold Spies | Organia | The Other Side of Paradise | Paladin | The Paladins Affair | Potpourri | The Price and The Prize | A Portfolio of Poetry and Portraits | Professional Junkies | Pure Maple Syrup | Pushin' the Odds | Quantum Chain | Relay | Relative Encounters | The Schooner Bay Beacon | Scuttlebutt | The Sensuous Vulcan | Shooting Star | The Skeptic and the Believer | Strange Justice | Tales of Two U.N.C.L.E.S. | Three Eleven | Travels With Mulder | The Vaslovik Archives | Wheels of Darkness and Other Stories
Zines (as Eros)
The Alpha Chronicles | Chalk and Cheese | Crossing the Streams | Mobile Ghettos | Quantum Instability | Starlight, Starbright | Turquoise Mine | City of Byzantium | Classified Affairs | Compromising Positions| Comrades | Eyes Only | Exposures | Knight Fantasies | Mixed Doubles | Not What You Expect | The Plain and Simple Zine | Red Hot Lovers | Rose Tint My World | Turquoise Mine | U.N.C.L.E. Affairs | XXX FILES: The Frisky Project
Fan Comments
I'd fallen in love with the series, Man from U.N.C.L.E., not because it was showing on TNT, but because of a writer named Eros. I read everything that she produced, collected every short and snippet in every zine, and re-read her novel City of Byzantium five or six times. It was my threshold fandom, the one that made me want to get out and meet other fans and talk to them about all of this stuff, not just sit at home and either read or write about it. This led me to attend Koon-Ut-Kali-Con, where I was exposed to one of my most enduring fandoms, The Professionals. [3]
References
- ^ from Who's Who in Star Trek Fandom
- ^ Feb 4, 2018 email to Morgan Dawn.
- ^ from My Life as a Fan, a 2007 essay by wickedwords