Jane Fancher
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Jane Fancher is a fan who created fan art.
Fancher was an assistant to Wendi Pini in the Elfquest fandom.
Fancher was a guest of honor at Atlanta Fantasy Fair and Magnum Opus Con, both in 1983.
In 1995, Fancher attended the dead dog party for Fantasy Worlds Festival at The Other Change of Hobbit.
Interview: 2006
Fancher was featured in the interview called Wizard Oil:
Author Jane Fancher (Groundties, and others) shares the concern [regarding the Marion Zimmer Bradley Fanfiction Controversy and] gives it yet another twist. "I deal with some very sensitive topics and complex character issues in my books, and it takes a long time and multiple books to resolve [them]. Some fan might well correctly read the setup and write a fanfic that bears superficial resemblance to the solution I've been building up to, and post it before my book hits the stands… But what if some unknown number of readers internalize that 'wrong' solution only to become forever resistant to the resolution I'd just spent several hundred thousand words and years of my life building up to?
This problem is felt more keenly by authors who write series or hold fast to one established universe. For example, Feist has spent decades writing books within his universe of Midkemia.
Fancher says, "...It's a real fear among authors that someone, either this hypothetical fan or their fannish support group, will pop up to claim we copied this superficially correct extrapolation of our own product, and it only takes one such adamant claim to make life pretty uncomfortable. It's not the vast majority of fanfic authors I worry about, it's the tiny handful. With the copyright law as it stands, it's very difficult to say just how much time, energy, and possibly money, might end up being involved. It's just always seemed easier to ask that [fan fiction] never be posted."
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Lackey embraces her inner fan, while Fancher recently found herself in a similar, eye-opening position: "This last summer, I discovered an anime that really hit me where I lived. The thing is, I could only get the first two DVDs from Netflix, and that left me at a terrible cliffhanger. For the first time in my life I was inspired to write in someone else's universe and for the first time I understood fanfic on a gut level. [The interview has] caught me at a real turning point. I'm still not ready to allow blanket posting of fanfic based on my work, but I'm looking very hard into viable options."
Fancher also sees fan fiction as a potential threat, and not just because of copyright abuse. She believes readership of novels may be declining in part because of time spent reading on the Internet. "Look how much fan fiction is being written. There are only so many readers with only so much time to read. Our careers might well be on the line because of it."
Zines
- Archaeology 101 #1 (art) (1981)
- Starstone #5 (1982)
- Yearnings #1 (1982)
- Time Distort #2 (1983)
- Jumeaux #5, #9 (1983)
- Contes di Cottman IV #4, #5 (1983)
- Time Log #10 (1984)
- Rassilon's Star #2 (1984)
- Travelling Companion #3 (1984)
Art
from Jumeaux Definitive Issue #5
from Jumeaux Definitive Issue #5
from from Jumeaux Definitive Issue #9
from from Jumeaux Definitive Issue #9
from from Jumeaux Definitive Issue #9
from Starstone #5
from [[Yearnings] #1, Wendy Pini & Jane Fancher
from Contes di Cottman IV #5
from Rassilon's Star #2
