Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 04:06:21 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [WSFA] Re: [wsfa-forum] Hugo nominees
From: "Elspeth Kovar" <ekovar at panix.com>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Michael Walsh wrote:
>>On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Neil Ottenstein <nottenst at yahoo.com> =
> wrote:
>> Isn't there some sort of contradiction here with John
>>  Scalzi being nominated in both these categories?
>
> No.
>
> To quote Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Managing Editor at Tor Books and past =
> Capclave Fan GoH (along with Teresa Nielsen Hayden):
>
> " "pro" and "fan" are terms for things that we do, not things that we =
> are."
> <http://pnh.livejournal.com/34338.html>
>
> mjw

And, Michael and his software making a mess of URLs aside, Scalzi deserved
to be nominated in both categories.  I asked him myself about how he
managed to both write fiction and write a blog and his response was the
first that I've ever heard that made sense: they were two different things
that he does.

He's a professional writer.

He's someone who natters along about random things in his blog.

He uses the one to distract him or give him a break for the other.

As a professional he doesn't tape bacon to the cat.  As a person he does.
And I'm really, really glad it wasn't my cat: she's a semi-long hair.  I
love his work.  I'll kill him if he comes near my cat.

I think he deserves to be nominated in both categories.  I know that being
nominated in both is going to cause him a lot of grief.  And that he knew
that going into it but that it was one of those things that had to be
done.

Elspeth