Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Connie Faddis
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| Title: | Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Connie Faddis |
| Interviewer: | Meagan Genovese |
| Interviewee: | Connie Faddis |
| Date(s): | August 16, 2017 |
| Medium: | aural |
| Fandom(s): | |
| External Links: | oral interview is archived at the University of Iowa |
| Click here for related articles on Fanlore. | |
In 2017, Connie Faddis was interviewed as part of the Media Fandom Oral History Project.
For more information about the origins of this interview, where it is housed, contact information, suggestions regarding future interviewee candidates, and how to become volunteer interviewer, see the Media Fandom Oral History Project page.
Some Topics Discussed
Fandom Life and Culture
- Faddis' introduction to fandom
- cramming around teeny TV sets with other fans to watch TV
- eating, living, and breathing Star Trek
- talking herself into going to the first New York convention, Star Trek convention
- being invited to convention panels before writing fanfic
- being a guest of honor and having your hotel rooms paid for by the convention
- using Star Trek as an escape from real life
- costuming at a time where women were sewing their own bell bottoms and caftans
- winning a costume contest at one of the New York cons in an Romulan Praeter outfit that featured copper sheathing and overlapping feathers
- posing on the full-size mockup of the bridge of the original Enterprise in the Romulan costume having taken over the Enterprise
- becoming a BNF and how it changed her relationship with fandom
- how Star Trek helped ground her with positive values in a creative caldron
Writing and Drawing
- writing Drawerfic
- writing her first fan story Sleep Not, Dream Not and then being encouraged by Ruth Berman to change the names of the characters and submit it for publication to "Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine"
- pursuing the desire to write more original fiction, of becoming a creator from the ground up
- how Star Trek culture and ideals continue to live on through her original work
- the secret of illustrating and writing
- how old fandom was good at developing talent via constructive feedback
- using photo references for her drawings
Fanzines
- learning about fanzine trib practices
- teaching herself ink and pen drawing due to mimeograph publication constraints
- the relative cheapness of silk screen vs color printing
- the complicated silk screening process requiring each color to be run separately and how the living room was covered with drying prints
- collating parties
- the zine Interphase, the zine Energize!, and the stories Mojave Crossing, Sleep Not, Dream Not, and None There Embrace
- Interphase, the calendar
- Jacqueline Lichtenberg and her Kraith series
- The Halkan Council and the need for letterzines in an era without internet and the high cost of long distance phone calls
- her story Remote Control
- her Starsky & Hutch novella Mojave Crossing
Other
- slash fiction
- struggling to ground slash fiction within canon and finally writing None There Embrace
- the artist Gayle F
- Starsky & Hutch, Star Trek: TOS