A Very Important Request for the List.

[anise_leinen]

Hi all! (waves, emerges from lurkerdom.)

I've been on this list for awhile, and I'm going to be a presenter at 
Nimbus 2003(you can look me up on the official list and everything!) 
The topic of my seminar will be:  "Ophelia's Quill Pen: How Reading 
and Writing Fanfiction Empowers Women and Girls," and I'm writing the 
paper that accompanies the actual presentation. Well, here's where 
you-- yes,YOU!-- can make an invaluable contribution. A big part of 
my research consists of trying to understand what reading and writing 
fanfiction, and the entire culture of fandom, has meant and continues 
to mean to those who participate in it. So I have a questionnaire, 
and I want to get as many responses to it as possible for the paper. 
(Here's where the contribution part comes in...) I am looking  for as 
many volunteers as possible to take the questionnaire, hoping to get 
the largest and most diverse sample size I can.  
Email me at: anise_leinen at yahoo.com, and I'll send you a copy. And 
yes, you will be thanked by name in the final paper (unless for some 
reason you don't want to be!) 

Infinite thanks in advance, 
Cathy Danielson aka Anise