From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: A. Porter & SF Chronicle
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 18:13:43 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

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From: "Elspeth Kovar" <ekovar at radix.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 1:21 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: A. Porter & SF Chronicle

> Michael Walsh wrote:
>
> > At Readercon Andy was being rather vocal about some
problems with Warren =
> > Lapine/DNA Publiucations - the publisher of SFC (along
with a number of =
> > other magazines).
> >
> > At Necon Darrell Schweitzer (co-editor of Weird Tales,
also published by =
> > DNA) told me that Andy was being replaced.  Apparently
Warren bought out =
> > Andy's contract.
> >
> > Ghod knows what Andy is going to do . . .
>
> I talked with him briefly on Sunday but then got caught up
in other
> conversations.  Having only just met him I didn't think it
appropriate
> to talk about his job situation, and he seemed to want to
talk about the
> Worldcon he'd chaired.

Andy Porter?  Worldcon chair?  When was that?  The last I
heard the closest he'd gotten to a major Worldcon position
was when he was secretary of the 1967 NyCon3 -- the one Dave
Van Arnam and I chaired.
>
> When Ben came into the room Andy called across to him,
"Have you heard
> the news?"  Carefully, "What news?  I've heard that you've
left the
> Chronicle."  "I got fired from the Chronicle."  There were
various
> negative comments about the Chronicle, with Andy sounding
both a bit
> bitter and a bit shell shocked.  He didn't seem to know
what he's going
> to do next either.
>
> Elsewhere I heard that folks are interested in seeing what
John does
> with the Chronicle.  I gather that he's considered to be
more of a
> professional than Andy is, and there was some thought that
it might
> result in an improvement.

It might and it might not.  But it's a definite step Down
for John, professionally.   (Andy worked for Lancer Books
and F&SF in the late '60s -- jobs I got him -- and has a
good working knowledge of the NYC professional world.
Better than mine, at any rate....)

--Ted White