Amber

The Fan Connection

When I first started attending MediaWest*Con in Lansing, I discovered a group of people who also appreciated the Amber series as much as I did. Over the coming years, we met at the convention and published four issues of the club fanzine Shadow Shiftin’. The club president even got permission from Roger to establish the club and make use of the characters and property, and sent him copies of everything we did (which would be of serious import, in the next section.) It was all great fun while it lasted.

As part of our participation, each member wrote a piece for the newsletter which identified the character they most identified with. For me, that was Merlin, the son of Corwin that he never knew about until the later books. Plus, we all described ourselves, and I told how I was a programmer. (This, too, is important: see the next section.)

By the way, if anyone knows where I can find copies of the club fanzine, I would really appreciate it! I loaned my copies to Erick Wujcik (see below) and he lost track of them. They had some of my first writing, especially a story that I may have a copy of on an old 5 ¹⁄₄″ floppy somewhere.