Roberta Rogow

Roberta Rogow (born 1942)^[1] is an American writer of speculative fiction and fan fiction, and a filk singer-songwriter.

Career

Rogow is a professional children's librarian by profession. She started her writing career as the editor of Grip, a media-based fanzine in the 1970s and 1980s.

She has written several mystery novels based on a (imaginary) collaboration between Arthur Conan Doyle and Lewis Carroll. She has also penned a number of short stories, including contributions to the shared world science fiction series Merovingen Nights.

Filking

As a filksinger, she has appeared at science fiction conventions, mostly in the Northeast United States, including Albacon. She has also appeared internationally, at Torcon 3.^[2]

Rogow has characterized her filk tapes as "electronic fanzines" that reach about 2,000 people.^[3]

Roberta was inducted into the Filk Hall of Fame on April 20, 2013.^[4]

Roberta has recorded 8 filk tapes and 5 CDs, some of which were self-published. Her current music publisher is Floating Filk Studios.^[5]

She has also published 18 songbooks called "Rec-Room Rhymes".

Personal

Rogow lived in Fairlawn, New Jersey from 1972 to 2002. Since 2002, she has lived in Irvington, New Jersey.

Works

• Heroes & Villains (& Some In Between....) (Filk CD). 2012.
• Dark Deeds & Desperate Men (and Women) (Filk CD). 2011.
• The Root of the Matter. 2010.
• One Filk Two Filk Old Filk New Filk (Filk CD). 2009.
• The Guilty Client. 2009.
• Alive and Filking (Filk CD). 2007.
• The Problem of the Surly Servant. 2001.
• The Problem of the Evil Editor. 2000.
• The Problem of the Spiteful Spiritualist. 1999.
• The Problem of the Missing Hoyden. 1999.
• The Problem of the Missing Miss. 1998.
• Futurespeak: A Fan's Guide to the Language of Science Fiction. Universal Sales & Marketing. 1991. ISBN 1-55778-347-0.

References

1. http://www.locusmag.com/index/s630.html
2. Torcon 3 official program. Accessed October 27, 2009.
3. Lisa A. Lewis, The Adoring audience: fan culture and popular media, p. 230 (Routledge, 1992) ISBN 0-415-07820-2, ISBN 978-0-415-07820-7, see also pp. 221-222, 233, found at Google books. Accessed October 27, 2009.
4. http://www.filkontario.ca/hof/inductees/rogowr.html
5. http://www.floatingfilk.com

External links

• author info at Books-n-Bytes
• Current CD publisher for Roberta
• Roberta Rogow at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Roberta's Bandcamp Page