Cynthia Boris
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| Name: | Cynthia Boris |
| Alias(es): | JD Sampson, jdsampson |
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Cynthia Boris is a fanwriter. Boris' pseud is JD Sampson.
Boris, and Jeanne Gold, created Golden Lily Press.
Boris wrote for print zines as well as online. See JDSampson Fan Fiction Archive.
Employed by FanLib as a Spokesperson
Boris (as JD Sampson) was employed by FanLib beginning in late 2006.:
I was hired about a half a year ago to work with Fanlib the company on the event they were running for Harper Collins Romance. Before the fan fic site (well, and still) Fanlib runs fan related writing events for Showtime's L-Word, Harper Collins Teens, Romance, we're working with MSN and Sprint on IntheMotherHood.com right now (one of our winners is being featured on The Ellen Show today) and coming up, Star Trek.
I hired on as a writer for the site and the newsletters for that event and they liked my work and kept me on for each event since then. When they put up Fanlib the fan fiction site, I jumped at the chance to work with that site as well since I've been a fanficcer since I could write.
Basically I handle the features on the front page. I write the blurbs, I help out in the forum, write newsletters and generally help keep the site oiled and moving forward. And I'm the unofficial LJ welcome wagon, it seems!
[...]
My philosophy is, if I want something, I don't really care if it's a man or a woman who hands it to me. Yes, fandom is thought of as a woman's world, but computers and websites are thought of as men's worlds. Almost every web company I've worked for was started and run by men because they came from the programming end or the corporate world - which is again, mostly men. If, as in this case, men want to spend money they raised in order to make a playground for what will likely be mostly women - more power to them.
Now, since they're smart men (JD looks around to see who's watching), they hired a fannishly obsessed woman like me to help tidy up the place and kick them when they run off track.
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And though I am not a board member in that I'm not a Fanlib founder, I am one of the people who runs the site on a day to day basis making decisions about what to feature, writing up news, etc.[1]
From a May 2007 discussion:
I published fan newsletters when you needed carbon paper to do it. I'm half of Gold n Lily, the fanzine press (Media West, anyone?) and I'm active in Supernatural now, Buffy before that and dozens of other smaller fandoms.
I work DAILY on Fanlib as an employee and as a fan. I review EVERY new story posted (no I don't read them all, but I skim many and at least review the summaries, etc of all that come in). And even though I'm not a founding board member, I offer many suggests and have helped shape things with fannish eyes. [2]
Essays
Fanworks in Print Zines
- Blood Brothers (Supernatural)
- Dark Matters (The A-Team)
- For Those That Tame Wild Horses (Alias Smith and Jones)
- One Handed Frisky (Kung Fu: The Legend Continues)
- Shades of Green (Kung Fu: The Legend Continues)
Fan Comments
From Jeanne Gold on The Rise and Fall of the Fanzine:
During rehearsals for a play, I met a kindred spirit: Cynthia Boris. We discovered we were both fangirls and we both enjoyed writing. Although much to Cynthia’s dismay, I wrote in script format at the time. She is the one who got me writing in story format. Thank goodness! We’ve been friends ever since, and eventually, we formed Golden Lily Press, producing zines for our favorite shows such as Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, Stargate SG-1, and Magnificent Seven.
References
- ^ from The corporatization of fanfic? (May 2007)
- ^ from FanLib Forum Discussion May 2007