Write-in SFWA election candidates

[netmouse]

I'm not a member of SFWA (not being a pro SF author, natch), but I note with interest the write-in campaigns of John Scalzi for SFWA President, and Derryl Murphy for VP.

I hope this rouses interesting discussion about the role of SFWA and the future of publishing.

SFOHA also finds itself with a executive ballot that only includes one person per slot, but we have a much smaller membership (though, sadly, they are not very active, something I clearly need to work on somehow). I generally agree that an active organization ought to have competition for its leadership, so I encourage people to let other people (especially SFWA authors) know about these write-in campaigns. I understand ballots are in the mail (some people have gotten theirs) and are due back by 4/28.

Comments

[avt-tor.livejournal.com]

Friends don't let friends run SFWA. ;)

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

You can tell us more about SFOHA at the SFOHA panels at Penguicon, Clave and Fusion I'll expect.

[the-leewit.livejournal.com]

D'oh! I can't find my ballot. I give Anne 'Cagey' Murphy proxy permission to vote my ballot and request that the officer-at-arms hit any member who sulks about this with a rubber chicken.

Remember: a rubber-chicken-equipped society is a polite society.

[andrh1a.livejournal.com]

Funny, I ran into this independently earlier today, and it spurred me into an interesting question for me personally, and for the SFWA, as well, especially going into the future.

Basically, I was musing on the fact that I don't qualify for membership, even though I'm very arguably a professional SF writer by any standards that make sense to me (income, volume of work, readership). I can't even imagine, though, the process of convincing the SFWA that, no, I was really paid to write that stuff and just because it's on the internet doesn't mean it's amateur...