About the Staff
I discovered Harry Potter when I started reading The Sorcerer’s Stone to my now 15 year old daughter; she lost interest in HP for a while, but Mom kept reading. Like many others, I discovered HP Fan Fiction shortly after finishing Order of the Phoenix and was faced with waiting a few years or more for new canon. Tending to gravitate to more “canonesque” fan fiction, I took the leap into different ‘ships and some AU since joining PFW and have read different genres of HP fan fiction that I would never have read before. I am a voracious reader, love cooking and baking, am an avid fan of the New England Patriots, and admit to an unhealthy addiction to watching Food Network. I live in New Hampshire with my husband, Mark, and daughters, Samantha and Shannon.
Email me at tina@potterficweekly.com
Julia
Julia got into Harry Potter five years ago. She thought it would be an easy subject for a high school term paper. Boy was she wrong. She lives in Connecticut and has a BA in English from the UConn (go Huskies). She is currently working on her masters in secondary education, in order to fufill her life long goal of becoming John Keating from Dead Poet’s Society.
Julia’s obsession with fanfic began with After the End. She quickly read as much canon-based fanfic as she could get her hands on. She discovered PFW in January when she got an email from Phil on the AtE Yahoo group. It has since taken over her life.
Since attending Phoenix Rising in May, Julia has been into Wizard Rock. She spends a ridiculous amount of time and money buying albums and going to shows (ask her about the time she went to two shows in two days in two different states). However, she feels this is totally worth it because The Whomping Willow now knows her by name. She and Dan have started The PwnCast of WRock, a podcast dedicated to Wizard Rock. She suggests you listen to it, because it pwns.
Email me at julia@potterficweekly.com
Richard
A renowned hater of the boring, Richard takes the cake when it comes to loving the weird. Eclectic and eccentric, his taste in things vary more than the weather and are even less predictable. He loves the evil and morally ambiguous, he loves the dark side of life, claiming them to be much more entertaining. This coupled with a zany sense of humor and his unique ability to engage even strangers in conversation, make him a very interesting personality. Also loves walks on the beach, and dropping things from tall buildings.
Email me at richard@potterficweekly.com
Dan
Dan is an avid Harry Potter fan who discovered PotterFicWeekly through Melinda’s fic, The Seventh Horcrux. Dan is a college student currently studying Broadcasting at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA.
In addition to Dan’s love of Harry Potter fanfic, he is an avid Wizard Rock listener. In fact, Dan hosts a podcast with Julia and Cody (both from PFW as well) entitled The PwnCast of WRock. Currently, it’s the third most popular wizard rock podcast in existence, so check it out!
Outside of Harry Potter, Dan can constantly be found screaming at the television set as his Philadelphia sports teams continue to lose year after year. A diehard Eagles, Flyers and Phillies fan, Dan knows all too well the pain and suffering that accompany the life of a Philadelphia sports fan.
Email me at pfwradio@gmail.com
Phil
Phil had always enjoyed the Harry Potter books, but it wasn’t until
he discovered “After the End” by Arabella and Zsenya that he
developed what some psychologists refer to as an “unhealthy
obsession” with the characters and story. An old school fan of After
the End, Phil was one of the folks who was reading the fic as it was
being written. (You can’t imagine the pain of getting to the end of
Chapter 21 and having to wait WEEKS for Chapter 22!) A & Z even
inspired him to put pen to paper (so to speak) and write a couple of
brief outtakes for the story.
Phil lives an unassuming life in a quiet suburb of Sacramento,
California, with the occasional business trip overseas. He is
married (sorry, ladies), and his wife is far more wonderful than what
he deserves. He spends his spare time with his four beautiful kids,
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