History OneOfUs / WritingWonks

** Really, as per [[OneOfUs the main page]], Gaiman probably doesn't need to be included here because, well...it's pretty obvious that he's a geek of gigantic proportions, just like Pratchett.

** On top of it all, he names Creator/JKRowling as his favorite writer, and just to solidify home much OneOfUs he was, said that Creator/StephenieMeyer "[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome ...can't]] [[Literature/{{Twilight}} write]] [[TakeThat/{{Literature}} worth a damn!]]"

* Jennifer Rowe, [[PenName aka Emily Rodda]], is best known for writing the ''Literature/DeltoraQuest'' series. As an interview with Creator/TheABC [[http://www.abc.net.au/sundayprofile/stories/s1226076.htm reveals]], she and her children are also die-hard anime fans. That and Creator/OLMIncorporated promising to keep the books' storylines fully intact were the primary reasons why she gave the go-ahead for adapting her books into an anime series.

** Not to mention at least three [[Literature/AmericanGods of his]] [[Literature/AnansiBoys works]] are pretty much {{Fanfic}}s that put mythology in our world.

* Creator/JRRTolkien and Creator/CSLewis were both huge fans of epic fantasy and grew frustrated that no one seemed to be writing it anymore. Finally they both decided "If no one else is going to write the books we want to read, we'll just [[LetsSeeYouDoBetter write them ourselves]]."

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* Andrzej Sapkowski, creator of the ''[[Literature/TheWitcher Witcher]]'' books, is a huge fan of KingArthur and everything related to it. Once he and another writer took over a panel at convention and turned it into a duel who can prove to have greater knowledge about ''SienkiewiczTrilogy''. He also has a recommendation list of fantasy novels he thinks every true fan of the genre should give a try. Said list consiste a one hundred positions at this point and all series, even the long running ones like ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'', are listed as just one position. And that's just books he liked.

** ''[[http://www.neilgaiman.com/mediafiles/exclusive/shortstories/emerald.pdf A Study in Emerald]]'' (Franchise/SherlockHolmes[=/=]CthulhuMythos crossover). He also wrote a DarkFic about Narnia [[spoiler:that shipped Jadis/Aslan]].

* Jennifer Rowe, [[PenName aka Emily Rodda]], is best known for writing the ''Literature/DeltoraQuest'' series. As an interview with TheABC [[http://www.abc.net.au/sundayprofile/stories/s1226076.htm reveals]], she and her children are also die-hard anime fans. That and Creator/OLMIncorporated promising to keep the books' storylines fully intact were the primary reasons why she gave the go-ahead for adapting her books into an anime series.

* Daniel Suarez gets so many of the technical details right in his novel ''Literature/{{Daemon}}'' that he's obviously an accomplished hacker in his own right. So much so that you have to wonder how much [[ConspiracyTheory practical research]] he may have done on how to write a Daemon like the one in the book...

* Creator/LarryNiven, multiple Hugo Award, Nebula Award, and Creator/HPLovecraft Award winning science fiction author, space-program booster, and generally all-around nice guy, has publicly stated that of all the projects he's been involved in, writing the "bible" for the post-''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'' ''GreenLantern'' comic book series is probably his favorite, because it let him play with a lot of the "toys" he enjoyed "playing with" when he was younger.

* Author and scriptwriter Melinda M. Snodgrass has said that her career has been "one long nergasm." She's an AscendedFan in many different categories: a ''Franchise/StarTrek'' fan who ended up a scriptwriter for ''Next Generation''; a ''Franchise/MassEffect'' fan who got picked to write some of the novels; a roleplaying gamer who, along with her good friend Creator/GeorgeRRMartin, turned their ''Superworld'' game into the ''{{Wild Cards}}'' series (and now is a writer/producer on the upcoming ''{{Wild Cards}}'' movie).

** He's heard of TVTropes.

** And the real kicker: claimed in one interview that he learnt how to write by reading TVTropes.

** Between [[https://twitter.com/anamariecox/status/231473107427291136 this conversation on her twitter account]] where she uses the phrase Mary Sue, and having retweeted [[https://twitter.com/ryanpbroderick/status/429279866933235712 this]], she clearly knows about TvTropes.

* The reclusive American CosmicHorrorStory author Creator/ThomasLigotti once co-wrote a ([[SoCoolItsAwesome very impressive]]) ScriptFic for ''Series/TheXFiles'' entitled "Crampton". He's also an admirer of early Music/KingCrimson and the film ''Film/ManOnFire''.

** Has a Masters degree in Chemical Engineer

* Sportswriter Creator/BillSimmons is a massive nerd, and spent so much of his column crossing over sports and pop culture that ESPN spun off Grantland.com so that he and others could continue. He's written lengthy articles on ''VideoGame/MaddenNFL'' (coining the page quote for RubberBandAI), ''Series/TheWire'', ''Series/JerseyShore'', ''Series/{{Survivor}}'', ''Film/{{Rocky}}'', and ''Film/TeenWolf''. The latter being notable because he actually ''calculated the stat lines for the basketball scenes.''

* Creator/CharlesStross ''invented'' several iconic ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' monsters such as the death knight, the githyanki and githzerai, and the slaadi. Geekdom gets multiple nods in ''TheLaundrySeries'', including a short story where protagonist Bob Howard plays ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'' to keep the modding community from accidentally summoning {{eldritch abomination}}s with it.

* How is Creator/DianeDuane not on here yet? She got her start writing ''Franchise/StarTrek'' fic in the 70s, and has referenced writing ''Series/DoctorWho'' and ''[[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Lord of the Rings]]'' fic before that. She's very active on tumblr these days, reading and reblogging a lot of her favorite Sherlock fic and art. She's also... started writing fanfiction of her own books and posting them. It's weird for everyone.

*** [[https://twitter.com/feliciaday/status/224286956434108417/photo/1 He likes]] TheGuild.

* Every Author in the Literary Anthology ''Geektastic!''is a self-proclaimed geek in one way or another.

* Ryohgo Narita, creator of ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' and ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'', was once asked how he felt about fans {{shipping}} and [[SlashFic slashing]] his characters together in fanfic and doujins. His response? "[[YuriFan Well, I ship]] [[SayonaraZetsubouSensei Harumi/Chiri]]."

* Australian writer Creator/MatthewReilly definitely counts he, among other things, owns a Delorean as his day to day car, named a group in one of his books after a background character with no lines in 'The Empire Strikes Back' owns a life size Boba Fett helmet which sits on his writing desk and on the wall of his study is life size Han Solo frozen in carbonite.

** She and John Hodgman also toasted each other "So Say We All" on Twitter at the end of the series ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}''.