Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Day is here Please...

Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Day grew, a little like Topsy, from a blog comment someone thought about (see http://rolanni.livejournal.com/439604.html )... and commented on, and as I type is being celebrated, literally, around the world.  Yay crew! What a community we're part of. While SF&FWD may lack the cachet, (or the clarity of intent) as such well known days as Mothers Day, Fathers Day, Veterans Day, or even the long-celebrated Administrative Professionals Day (ahem) .... it is here... read more

As Sharon Lee most wonderfully submitted, today is the first observation of Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Appreciation Day. I mean to write notes today in thanks.  And in remembrance, oh, I do so wish I'd had a chance to thank Edgar Rice Burroughs for just everything.  John Carter and Tarzan were my first pre-pubescent loves.  John Carter most especially.  A Princess of Mars is still one of my all time favorite stories, in all its pulpy glory.  The man could write a rip roaring yarn.  ...

Back in April, we here at Eagles Over the Kennebec were talking about Secretaries Administrative Professionals Day and I mentioned that I feel a little funny receiving flowers and gifts on that day, because I don't consider myself to be a secretary administrative professional, but rather a writer. Some discussion followed; Science Fiction Writers Day was quickly proposed and seconded. hapaxnym suggested June 23 as a likely date of celebration, it being the day that Cyrano de Bergerac...

Tell your friends, tell your booksellers, tell everyone! As explained right over here, http://rolanni.livejournal.com/439604.html Sharon Lee invites everyone to join in celebrating Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers (that would be the people who write the books and stories that we all read) on June 23. So plan to thank a writer that day. To blog where speculative fiction has never been blogged about before? To read a book for the cause? Anyway, to give three cheers for Science Fiction and Fantasy...

Today is the day: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Day . Tell an SFF writer you love 'em -- or, at least that you appreciate their influence on your life. I'm looking at the shelf here next to my desk, where the books that I reach for often live. My intention is to write a note today to each of these authors to thank them for the joy their work has given me. Unfortunately, as I look along the shelf, I see that there are some people to whom I cannot write a note. The books, in no particular...

rolanni has proclaimed today Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Day . She suggests we celebrate the day by reaching out and thanking our favorite writers. Or blogging about them. Or writing about how SF/F has changed our lives. I think these are all fine ideas. I'd like to take this moment to thank both Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett: two of my favorite writers, together or separately. I'd also like to thank the memories of Robert Heinlein, Robert Anton Wilson and Isaac Asimov, without...