Dresden Files Letter-Writing Campaign

Zarina and her crew of campaigners are staging a virtual sit-in on November 9, 2007, during SCIFI's first rerun of a Dresden Files episode. See her website for more information:

Zarina: News and Updates Page

We've set up a short survey (8 questions, plus your age and your city/state) designed to let science fiction and fantasy fans let SCIFI know how well they are meeting our needs as television viewers.

Please take a few minutes to answer these questions about SCIFI's programming choices. Every time I get 100 more completed surveys, I'll print them out and mail them to Mr. Stern and Ms. Hammer.

At this time we're not recommending that you send email to SCIFI, for two reasons:

1. The networks don't tend to pay nearly as much attention to email as they do to snailmail and phone calls.
2. SCIFI may delete your email without even opening it. At least one fan who emailed SCIFI's feedback address received a response saying that her message had been deleted without being read.

We don't know if SCIFI is automatically deleting all email with "Dresden Files" in the subject line, or if this particular instance was a technical glitch, but if you want to be sure that SCIFI gets your letter, please write or call.

There are others who are exploring options for the show (persuading SCIFI to continue the show in webisode form, or persuading another network to pick up the show, or asking Lionsgate to continue the Dresden Files in movie form). Their websites:

• Zarina's Dresden Files Campaign Website
• Dresden City
• dresdenfiles.org

We'd like to thank all of the generous people who donated prizes for our drawing:

• Thanks to the wonderful folks at PhauxCon for donating two tickets to this year's convention, where Jim Butcher is going to be appearing. For more information, visit their website at http://www.phauxcon.com.
• Thanks to Robert Hand (roberthand777@yahoo.com) for donating twenty signed, limited edition prints based on the Dresden Files books.
• Thanks to Priscilla Spencer for donating a private commission digital illustration based on the TV show. You can see more of Priscilla's art at The Nine Muses.
• Thanks to Ann-Marie Gearhart for donating a huge batch of hand-crafted bookmarks and stickers based on The Dresden Files.

For a complete list of the drawing winners, click here.

I also want to thank the devoted fans who have volunteered so much of their time and energy in the effort to save The Dresden Files!

• Anita Karve, who tackled the job of creating our first press release, and contributed some very helpful suggestions early in the campaign.
• Kersti Markey, who was went out of her way to distribute flyers for the campaign and to share her experiences with us.
• Steve Gahm, who organized the June drawing: he put together 50 cool prizes, drew names, and made sure that those prizes got mailed out to all the winners. In addition, Steve has offered non-stop support for the campaign -- thank you, Steve, for all the brainstorming, all the publicity you've generated and the contacts you've gathered, and most of all, for your unfailing positive attitude over the past few months. You have no idea how much your help has meant to me!
• Belynda, who ran a letter drive during the second week of July, in an eleventh-hour effort to get more fanmail in front of the network execs at this crucial juncture. She received 2 lbs of letters, which she very generously copied multiple times and mailed off to the Powers That Be. Belynda continues the efforts to bring Harry back on the air via her own website, Zarina's Dresden Files Campaign Website.

Thanks to all the Dresden fans overseas who took the time to send in letters of support for the show!