In
The Beginning… A
History of Amber Tamblyn…Online Amber
made her presence known online in 1999 with a website hosted on Angelfire
called
Amber
Rose Tamblyn – The Official Fan Club Web Site.
It was the perfect website for a teenage girl – pink with lots of
flowers. It had cute links such
as The
Rose Garden and Forever
Amber. It even had a Poetry
Corner, Personal
Photo Album, and Tamblyn
Thoughts – where she would share her
opinion on a particular subject.
One
piece she wrote was titled “Hollywood is
Hard”. There was an online Fan
Club (that replaced the offline fan club
Amber had even before that. For
$20
you could send away and receive: an AMTAM
Fan Club Card, the first Official AMTAM Newsletter, a color photo
autographed by
Amber and her Dad Russ in the 1997 Nurse's Ball, and three more newsletters
personally created by Amber and her helpers.)
and Chat
Room that housed chats Amber held along
with
her General Hospital co-stars. From the beginning she was famous for
bringing
her co-stars to her website – something the fans loved and she still does
today. You could also buy
official
Amber merchandise! Her two
poetry
books “Of the Dawn”
and “Plenty of Ships”
were for sale, along with a mug with her picture from the beach bash she
attended with her GH co-stars, a poster of her as a child dressed up for
Halloween as ‘Amber the Barbarian’, and a video of her breakfast at the GH
Fan Club weekend. Amber’s
website moved to amtam.com and included an ezboard message forum for fans to
chat on. Amber posted under the screen name ‘amberfreakaholic’ and her
mother (still) under the name ‘Big Momma’. The forum was very active and
could get very heated when Amber shared her opinion on any given subject.
In
2002 Amber launched her re-designed, more sophisticated black and red web
site
along with a new message forum.
She
still posts regularly with a new group of fans that discovered her through
Joan
of Arcadia.
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