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Swellison

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Name: Swellison, Sue Wells
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Fandoms: Simon and Simon, Alias Smith & Jones, NCIS, The Professionals, Blake's 7, Star Trek: TOS, The Sentinel, Supernatural, ER, Starsky & Hutch
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URL: FFN; Archive of Our Own
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Swellison (Sue Wells) is a gen fan writer, vidder, and zine editor.

Some Fiction

Some of Swellison's fiction is at Idol Pursuits, a branch of Mackie's Idol Pursuits.

The Sentinel fiction is here, and Professionals fiction here.

Some fiction is also at Faux Paws Productions Virtual Seasons.

Interview

Meta

Awards

Short Fannish Bios

From 1997:

Sue Wells has been involved in fandom for... more years than she’ll admit to. Sue started writing STAR TREK in her vanished youth, then graduated into SIMON & SIMON, ALIAS SMITH & JONES, BLAKE’S 7, and THE PROFESSIONALS. She was roped into being co-editor/publisher of ALIAS HEYES AND CURRY, an ALIAS SMITH & JONES zine with her partner in crime, Erika Frensley. She can be found at conventions feverishly buying zines, trying not to buy zines, buying more zines, and exclaiming her lack of money to friends and foes alike. [1]

From 2022:

I think my earlier bio qualified for one of the ten most boring blurbs on the site, so I'm attempting a bio makeover here. I am a fanosaur –a new term for an ol--er, long time fan.;-) Over the years, I've written a few stories in several different fandoms, but my three main fandoms are The Professionals, The Sentinel and Supernatural. The Sentinel is the reason I broke down and bought my first computer in 1997, before that I was a zine-based fanwriter. Most of my Sentinel fan fiction is now posted at AO3 (Archive of Our Own) under Swellison, and I'm slowly adding more non-SPN stories there. [2]

Swellison's Comments: 2010

I've been in fandom a long time, and I started out as a zine writer, using my own name. I kept using it when I finally got online in 1997. When I got laid off in 2003, I decided that I needed a disconnect between my fan life and my work life, so I created a pseudonym, Swellison – my initials and ellison, identifying myself loud and clear as a Jimbabe. [3]

My fannish activities include being part of the Revelcon ConComm. Revelcon is a multi-media fan convention in Houston in March. Most of the ConComm are Sentinel fans, so there's always a Sentinel panel or two, and other Sentinel fans around for talking about the guys. I've wanted to be a writer since I was ten. I thought I'd be a librarian and write the Great American Novel on the side. As with Blair, things didn't turn out the way I thought they would, maybe I'll write that novel when I'm retired. In the meantime, I satisfy my creative urges through writing fanfic. [4]

I remember a couple of my friends tried to get me to watch The Sentinel when it first came on, but I wasn't interested because, from the title, I thought it was a lone hero show like Stingray, and I preferred partnership shows. (Talk about your first impressions being off-base!) My friend Jennifer showed me 'The Debt" and then asked if I wanted to see more. I did, and was well and truly hooked by the first episode of the second season ("Flight... My friend Christy loaned me her notebooks of Kristine Williams' TS stories, which she printed off from the net and whetted my appetite for TS fanfic. For a few months after that, if I was visiting a fan friend who had a computer, I'd usurp their pc and read fanfic. Finally, I broke down and bought my own computer in the summer of 1997, so The Sentinel is the reason I went online. Once online, I hung out at Guide Posts, reading—and my first TS fic was a response to their non-owie smarm challenge, Here and There. I just kept writing, after that. [5]

Zine Contributions

Alias Smith and Jones

Blake's 7

The Professionals

Sentinel

Simon and Simon

Star Trek: TOS

Supernatural

Other

References

  1. ^ from Texas Revelations, Special Edition in March 1997
  2. ^ from Swellison at Fanfiction.net
  3. ^ from Cascade Library Interview with Swellison
  4. ^ from Cascade Library Interview with Swellison
  5. ^ from Cascade Library Interview with Swellison
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