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Writing only leads to more writing. (Colette)

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Visitors from 1/30/05:

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I owe a lot to The Man from UNCLE. It was my inspiration. It led me to write fiction seriously when my then best friend (in 1980), also an MFU fan, said she'd read any stories I wrote about Illya and Napoleon. I didn't need to be asked twice. I wrote 5. As a freelance writer, she went on a press junket for the Swamp Thing movie, met someone who'd just written an article about fanzines for Cinefantastique (spelling?) magazine. She told me about it, gave me his address, and he gave me the info about a now-defunct zine directory called The Universal Translator. I found someone who published UNCLE stories, and since I had 5 of them, she decided to put them in one zine. I took over the zine with issue 2.

I met my best friend, jersey_lion when she wrote me an LoC, which was, really, a fan letter. We lived a state away from each other, a short ride on Amtrak. We met. We started collaborating. We shared a love for UNCLE and writing.

I met Deb, my collaborator on the SF books, through fandom. The Equalizer, this time, but I wouldn't have been involved in EQZ fandom if not for MFU which got me involved and active in zines and fandom in general, attending cons, meeting other fen.

UNCLE changed my life. I decided it deserves an icon.

Wow, what a trip. American Life Channel just aired the 90-minute, original Man From UNCLE pilot, with Will Kuluva as Mr. Allison (later replaced by Leo G. Carroll as Mr. Waverly, following a misunderstanding when NBC said to lose the "K character"), and in color. The show, as is fairly well known, was called "Solo," and the episode was "The Vulcan Affair," same as when it was reshot. To see something over 40 years old that never aired was way cool.