There has been a big hoohah about the British Fantasy Society Awards at Fantasycon (where apparently your imagination fills in the shortcomings of the hotel for another year), as a whole bunch of them went to people closely connected to the Chairman/awards administrator, David Howe. It's a PR disaster.
slovobooks,
nwhyte and
cherylmmorgan have
all posted much more eloquently
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It's a pity you can't make it this year.
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Although I suppose there's one lesson there for people like the Fantasy Awards folk, in that these things can fade into the past, but are not necessarily completely forgotten.
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This up! I mean five-ish days is a LONG time on the Internet!!!
Though I think 2009 will stay 'recent' for awhile yet, and this is not necessarily a bad thing, as long as we remember it and don't repeat any of the mistakes that were made, the one involving you been the biggest but not the only one.
Mistakes are made, but most reasonable adults are aware of this, and so accept a timely apology. At least that's what I have found.
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If it manages to become less exclusive to people outside of just the in-crowd and more fantasy oriented I would quite happily join.
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Not least because the organisation's stalwarts (which does not equal the recent committee) are really starting to understand just how many people have had experiences over the years like Peadar and Angie's.
Previously, the Complacent Tendency have prevailed more by inertia than anything else - when there's been a row, the response has been ah, just a little local difficulty, it'll all blow over and we'll muddle on as before...
Now they are discovering there's no such thing a a little local difficulty in these days of the Net, Twitter, Facebook etc.
And a very good thing too, as far as I am concerned.
If anyone can see real change through, it'll be Graham Joyce.
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And Graham does certainly seem to be making strides, and I notice a couple of decent names standing for key positions already, which is great. More power to them. I (and the internet!) will watch with interest what the coming months bring.
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