The Society of Phantom Friends
The Society of Phantom Friends is a group of girls' series book fans and collectors,
headed up by President,
Kate Emburg. The Judy Bolton series lends two of its titles--to the group name and
to the ten per year magazine that's published,
The Whispered Watchword. Once a year members get together at a fun place around
the country in a gathering known
as the Phantom Friends Reunion. It is
a great opportunity to meet fellow collectors, share collecting stories and treasures,
trade, buy, and sell books to other
collectors, and write articles and review your favorite books!
The Whispered Watchword
The Society of Phantom Friends publishes a yearly magazine.
Ten issues--December/January, February,
March, April, May, June/July, August, September, October, and November.
All issues are filled with nice
articles on series books, authors, reviews, book format articles, have ads for books, and more! It averages twenty-five
to thirty plus pages in length. Articles feature any type of girls' series and books. There are often
articles on Judy Bolton and Nancy Drew in at least every issue amongst many more series!
How to Join?
To join The Society of Phantom Friends and receive your ten issues of The Whispered
Watchword:
1. Checks must be payable to Kate Emburg
(not Whispered Watchword or Phantom Friends.)
2. US subscriptions are $33.00 a year.
Canadian is $35.00, other non-US is $40.00. All non-US subscriptions require a
POSTAL money order as payment.
3. Address is: Kate Emburg, 40 S. Vine St, Mount Carmel, PA 17851.
Current Member Submissions Information
Don't send newspaper or magazine clippings, just original articles.
They can be book reviews of current or older girls' fiction; in-depth
discussions of one series or a genre (girls' romance series, girls' boardings school series, etc); biography of an author of girls' fiction (living or dead); or solicitations for information or books wanted. The scope of TWW is girls' fiction (intended for a female audience ages 8-18); not necessarily series although we focus on series. The author (of the books discussed) need not be female.
Sample Issue & Contents:
The March 2003 Issue
The articles in the March 2003 issue, edited by Jennifer Fisher, included:
- --Mr. Gold and Her Neighborhood House
by Kate Emburg
- --The Clue in the Old Nostalgia...An Interview with Phil Zuckerman, by Jennifer Fisher
- --Judy Bolton: The Whispered Watchword A Blathering Blow-by-Blow by Anna Peterson
- --Cassie Hartt - Girl Sleuth (The New Kid on the Block) by Domenic Ferrante
- --A Mystery to Me XXVI by Richard ZainEldeen
- --Phillip Pullman's Sally Lockhard Series by Kathi Peterson
- --Starvation Heights - Or - When Real Life True Crime Preceded Juvenile Series Fiction by Kathy Ursich
- --Nancy Nostalgia or The Mystery Behind Nancy Drew's Appeal by Jennifer Fisher
- --Nancy Drew TV Show Trivia by Jennifer Fisher
- --eBay Watch
- --Phantom Voices edited by Troy Horrisberger
If you have any questions about The Whispered Watchword
e-mail Kate
here.
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