Lee Gold is a member of California science fiction fandom and a writer and editor in the role-playing game and filk music communities.
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Gold became prominent after 1975 as the editor of Alarums and Excursions, a monthly amateur press association to which RPG writers have contributed over the years.[1][2] Gold began the publication at the request of Bruce Pelz, who felt that discussion of Dungeons & Dragons was taking up too much space in APA-L, an amateur press association loosely associated with the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society.[3]
She has professional credits in the RPG field, including Land of the Rising Sun and Lands of Adventure, published by Fantasy Games Unlimited, GURPS Japan for Steve Jackson Games and Vikings for Iron Crown Enterprises.[4]
Alarums and Excursions won the Charles S. Roberts Award for Best Amateur Wargame Magazine in 1984, and the Origins Award for Best Amateur Game Periodical in 2000, 2001, and 2002.[5]
In 1988, Gold (who had been filking since 1967) also began publishing Xenofilkia,[1] a bimonthly collection of filk lyrics to which songwriters have contributed, including Leslie Fish, Tom Smith and Bob Kanefsky. Although Gold has published filk lyrics, she has never recorded for public distribution.
Gold was inducted into the Filk Hall of Fame in 1997.[6]
As of January 2011 she had published 425 issues of Alarums and Excursions and 135 issues of Xenofilkia.[7], as well as four volumes of Filker Up!, a filk-song anthology.
She published Tom Digby: Along Fantasy Way, a collection of writings by Tom Digby for ConFrancisco, the 1993 Worldcon where Digby was an Honored Guest, and has published writings by other prominent fan writers in the Los Angeles area.