Thank you, as one SFWA member to another, for your good, hard work at BEA this week. Really. One of SFWA's ongoing issues is that the drama frequently overshadows the really fine work done by volunteers. This makes it hard to get good, high quality (like Suricattus-quality) volunteers. The organization has done better in the past decade or so, but...thank you.
I love sordid drama as much as the next woman--but not when it seeps out of its hermetically sealed containment vessel and threatens to undo the good work of the organization. SFWA has made great strides toward being perceived as a professional organization by professionals outside our shtetl; this stomping-off-because-I'm-offended rhetoric doesn't help.
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One of SFWA's ongoing issues is that the drama frequently overshadows the really fine work done by volunteers. This makes it hard to get good, high quality (like Suricattus-quality) volunteers. The organization has done better in the past decade or so, but...thank you.
I love sordid drama as much as the next woman--but not when it seeps out of its hermetically sealed containment vessel and threatens to undo the good work of the organization. SFWA has made great strides toward being perceived as a professional organization by professionals outside our shtetl; this stomping-off-because-I'm-offended rhetoric doesn't help.