Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:49:06 -0500 (CDT)
From: <samlubell at verizon.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: [wsfa-forum] Hugo nominees
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>,
 Neil Ottenstein <nottenst at yahoo.com>, wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

>From: Neil Ottenstein <nottenst at yahoo.com>
>Date: 2008/03/21 Fri AM 09:22:53 CDT
>To: wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com, WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
>Subject: [WSFA] Re: [wsfa-forum] Hugo nominees

>Isn't there some sort of contradiction here with John
>Scalzi being nominated in both these categories?
>

Only if you believe one ceases to be a fan when one becomes a pro. If someone writes fiction for money, one is a professional writer.
If he writes nonfiction about science fiction and gives it away for free, he is a fan writer.

And doing one does not prevent a person from also doing the other. Isn't Dave Langford also a professionally published writer?