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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 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!
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 $30.00 a year.
Canadian is $33.00, other non-US is $40.00. All non-US subscriptions require a
POSTAL money order as payment.
3. Address is: Kate Emburg, 4100 Cornelia Way, North Highlands, CA 95660
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.
The March 2003 Issue
The articles in the March 2003 issue, edited by Jennifer Fisher, included: