For Groggy-Like Stuff
When Ned Brooks scanned a couple covers (one of which is on this page) from my old fanzine GROGGY and put them up on the web, I got to wondering what sort of issue I might put out today. It might seem like a silly question since this website already features a lot of recycled fanzine writing. But the website is, frankly, geared to help us acquaint people with the fiction Mary and I are writing and none of the essays are strictly faanish. I did have on hand some faanfiction that Garth Spencer had kindly put up on the web and kept there for years and a bit of fanhistory I had posted on my first website. In addition, I recently ran across a sercon article preserved by John D. Owen . In the last couple issues of the e-newsletter Mary and put out I found some items that seemed very Groggy-ish. I also had on hand something particuarly faanish that I never wrote while I was in Fandom -- a convention report. All that makes for a fairly typical issue of GROGGY, I think, albeit a very long one.
So I'm placing this GROGGY online as an "issue" rather than a web page. There won't be any additions. It's an example, for anyone who cares, of what the fanzine was like, near as a dittoed and hectographed zine can be reproduced in html.
Recently I've turned my efforts to writing fiction. After collaborating on a number of short stories Mary and I have had published four historical mystery novels in the "John the Eunuch" series. The fifth, FIVE FOR SILVER will be out in February.
© 2000 Eric Mayer
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