Mandi Schultz

Fan
Name:	Mandi Schultz
Alias(es):	Mary L. Schultz, Mandi Tamborello
Type:	fan writer, zine ed, zine publisher
Fandoms:	Star Trek: TOS, The Prisoner, The Avengers
Communities:	WSA Program
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Mandi Schultz was a fan writer, zine ed, and zine publisher most active in the Star Trek: TOS fandom. She entered fandom in October 1967 "as a matter of survival" with the name Mandi Tamborello.

She was involved in Spock's People as a member (circa 1968) and the Chicago chapter of Spock's Scribes as a national vice-president. She also assisted with Mariette Hartley Fan Network.

Schultz was also Assistant to the Acting Administrator in the WSA Program.

In May 1971, she married Richard Schultz.

illo from 1968/69, by Mandi, from Nimoyan-Spock's Scribes Yearbook

Zines

She is perhaps best known for her Diamonds and Rust series, written with Cheryl Rice and published in 1978. She also wrote "Fountain of Sorrow," which appeared in Beta Niobe Revisited (1976), and "Where Sirens Sing," from Alpha Continuum #4 (1980).

Schultz had a personalzine called Implosion, and had been known to write articles and letters for various zines, including "an article [...] warning about rip-off dealers and poor quality merchandise at cons" for Spectrum #26 (1976) and a letter in T-Negative #27 (1975).

She was also involved with the production of the following zines:

As Tamborello

• Nimoyan-Spock's Scribes Yearbook (1968)
• Spock's Sentinel (1968-1969)
• The Hailing Signal (1968)
• Menagerie (as art editor, 1969)
• The Nimoyan Fellowship
• The Spockulator

As Schultz

• The Prisoner, publisher (c.1977)
• Beta Niobe Revisited, editor with Rusty Hancock (1976)
• Alpha Continuum #1, #2, #4 (1976, 1977, 1980)
• Who's Who in Star Trek Fandom, editor with Jeff Johnston/M.J. Fisher (1977)
• Diamonds and Rust (1978)

Gafiate

Mandi gafiated from Star Trek fandom around 1979:

Mandi put out the last Implosion in May [1977], citing high blood pressure and other health reasons as the cause. Although she said, "IMP will be back—in a few months, or a couple of months, I don't know. Whenever my blood pressure behaves itself.... Oh, hell, yes, I'll be back," Implosion never appeared again. After 1979, Mandi Schultz did not reappear, either.

According to a statement Scuttlebutt, this was after the publication of Diamonds and Rust:

Mandi Schultz is having a zine sale. SASE for list. Also, some of Gee Moaven's art, including most of the illos for Diamonds and Rust... For the information of those of you who have sent SASEs [about 'Moonshadow']: Mandi Schultz' 'Moonshadow' is a PRIVATE publication and NOT for general distribution. Whoever let the cat out of the bag was wrong in doing so. Please stop asking about it. Mandi and Gee Moaven have gafiated from Trekdom, so says Mandi.

In the next issue of Scuttlebutt, Mandi elaborates:

My gafia has nothing to do with whether or not D&R will be finished. I certainly do not need to be an actifan to accomplish that. In fact, considering how long volume 1 took to complete, ideally I ought to be confined to my basement for the duration. Those interested in more D&R should send a SASE to Cheryl Rice or myself... Any further D&R will NOT be scattered through other zines. Cheryl and I are currently evaluating various methods of its future disbursement. And we'll be happy to tell those who are interested as soon as we have it all figured out. [And] please, folks, I am not Gee Moaven's mother. If you have something to say or ask of her, write to HER, not me.