Jeff Morris, Devourer Of Worlds
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Jeff Morris began writing fanfiction in 1983. His first two stories were published in the Doctor Who fanzine Gateway to Time. A few years later he drifted over to Blake's 7, debuting in B7 Complex and placing stories in several zines, including Southern Seven and Probability Squared.
His next major fandom was Real Ghostbusters, where he won a Fan-Q award in 1993 for his novella "The Vampire Janine". In addition to TVJ, he wrote the novellas "Perfect World", "All Hallows Eve", and "Reality Check", the latter being a crossover tale with the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers.
During this time Morris started writing Star Trek fiction for Orion Press. He had several TNG stories published in Eridani, and won two Fan-Q awards for his stories "Prisoners" (in Outpost) and "Skeletons in the Closet" (in The Farthest Frontier by Criterion Press.
He won a fourth Fan-Q for his filk, "Fanzines of the Night", which was published in Serrated Seven by Ashton Press.
Morris has edited and published several zines since 1983. He was editor of the Doctor Who fanzine Gateway to Time and edited two issues of the Orion Press DS9 zine Outpost. He also founded Bandersnatch Press to do his own zines, Banzine (a multimedia zine) and The Naughty Bits, an unspeakably filthy adult zine, as well as the aforementioned novellas. During this time, Morris had no qualms (or shame, for that matter) using his connections to con other writers and artists whose work he respected to contribute to him. The fact that he had a Great Dane most likely was a factor in this, too.
What many people don't know is that just about all of his stories are something of a collaborative effort. Morris and his lovely, brilliant wife Mary (known as "Little Red" or "The Redhead") often spitball plot ideas back and forth on trips, etc., and even verbally act out scenes as they go. The Redhead also proofs and evaluates just about everything that sees the light of day.
Speaking of having no shame, Morris has written for several adult-material publications under pseudonyms. He was both Madelyn Darring and Coral Court in Blakes 7 fandom, and even wrote for the femmslash zine Sappho under the pen name of Penny Lane. He has always considered having been asked to write for Sappho to be the highest compliment he has ever received.
Morris freely admits that much of his motivation for writing adult fanfic is...ummm...well, for God's sake, he's married! What do YOU think?
He is currently wasting away in anime fandom, and his website at http://www.jeffreysmorris.com has a great deal of his work in its archives.
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[edit] Fandoms
Doctor Who, Buckaroo Banzai, Blakes 7, Real Ghostbusters, Star Trek (TNG and DS9), Gargoyles, Tenchi Muyo, El-Hazard, Emergency!
[edit] Ships
Ryo-ohki, Jupiter 2, Liberator, TARDIS
[edit] Membership
Below is a partial list of communities, sites and mailing lists this person belonged to at some point.
Member St. Louis Celestial Intervention Agency 1983-1993 (served as Membership Director, Vice President, President, Librarian, Treasurer, Fanzine Editor, Newsletter Editor at varying times. Wrote column "Who Confessions" 1983-1985 in the "Time Lord Times")
Editor Outpost Orion Press 1994-1995
Member/Newsletter Editor for St. Louis Costumers Guild 1994-2001
Webmaster for International Costumers Guild 2002-2007
Vice President/Webmaster for Ayeka Fan Club 2004-2006
[edit] Fanworks
Editor Gateway to Time issues 2-4 for St. Louis Celestial Intervention Agency
Editor Banzine and The Naughty Bits for Bandersnatch Press
Editor Outpost 2-3 for Orion Press
Writer/Publisher The Vampire Janine,Perfect World,All Hallows Eve,Reality Check
Not even going to BEGIN listing all the zines I've been in. Check the website!
[edit] Awards
1987 Writing Award, Short Story, Scorpio B7 convention
1993 The Vampire Janine Fan-Q winner for Real Ghostbusters story
1994 Prisoners Fan-Q winner for Star Trek Deep Space Nine story
1997 Skeletons in the Closet Fan-Q winner for Star Trek Deep Space Nine story
1997 Fanzines of the Night Fan-Q winner for filk
[edit] External links
- Jeff Morris: FanWorksFinder
http://www.jeffreysmorris.com Home of the Wide World of Fanfic
http://jeff-morris.livejournal.com Blog "Somewhere Over Omaha"
https://twitter.com/mister_terrific be his Twitter.
[edit] See also
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