The Fans from U.N.C.L.E. Interview with Liza Jones
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| Title: | The Fans from U.N.C.L.E. Interview with Liza Jones |
| Interviewer: | The Fans from U.N.C.L.E. |
| Interviewee: | Liza Jones |
| Date(s): | around 1998 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | Man from U.N.C.L.E. |
| External Links: | interview is here, Archived version |
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Liza Jones was interviewed for The Fans from U.N.C.L.E..
Some Excerpts
The background of this frippery is that I started writing MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. fiction just in time to be published in Kuryakin Files 16. To date I have written just three short stories and two novellas. I began my first novella ("The Dick Whittington Affair") in response to Lisa Madden's request for hurt/comfort stories for an all hurt/comfort zine. However, it expanded into my first MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. novella and has been described as "cute". Is that good? I then began "The Wrong Professor Affair" as my real contribution to Lisa's hurt/comfort zine and, blow me, the same thing happened. However, this time I also included a shorter story at the beginning (to date I have written four short stories and nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!) "The Lochinvar Affair" was a kinda Mary Sue story for a friend, but after I had fulfilled my obligation to my pal, I then started enjoying myself. By the way, Sir Walter Scott's Lochinvar is my absolute all-time favourite romantic poem, so I enjoyed writing this story around the verses.
I started by thinking where might they go that's exciting? Then what might happen there? ...why are they there?...and of course, what do I want to happen? (h/c) exciting things... them looking and sounding good. This is the crux of why I write, I see it as a jolly good romp - just like the TV programme. I like to have fun and, apart from the obligatory chunk of hurt/comfort, which I quite enjoy, I want the guys to be good friends and have an exciting time. I am frequently criticized for not writing enough angst, but I'm not very good at it, so I leave it to those who are.
I read The Balzar/Foley Collection and some Kuryakin Files, which I loved. Then I read some early stuff, some fo which was pretty dismal. I figured "I could at least do as well as some of this and quite possibly better" I already had some stories in my head.