Connie Willis on the 2015 Hugo Awards

[kevin_standlee]

Colorado Public Radio has a long story about the 2015 Hugo Awards including a Connie Willis interview that I enjoyed. Connie is good as she usually is. I had something to do with this story: Kareem Maddox, the author, interviewed me a few days ago in my official capacity as a member of the Hugo Awards Marketing Committee to discuss the details of how the Hugo Awards process works. I'm pleased to see that as far as I can tell, they got all of the procedural details right, which is not easy considering how often people get them wrong.

Comments

Nice!

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

Good interview.

[barry deutsch (from livejournal.com)]

I apologize for posting an off-topic question; I wasn't sure how else to contact you.

In a comment on File 770 (http://file770.com/?p=24790&cpage=8#comment-338628), you wrote:

Are you saying that you want the Administrator to decide, “In my subjective opinion, [named work] is not eligible”? The last time an Administrator did that in that category, the WSFS Business Meeting responded with a constitutional change to the category definition that in effect told the Administrator, “Don’t do that again. Let the voters decide whether something actually qualifies for this category on subjective grounds. Your job is solely technical, including things like ‘was it published in the correct year?'”

If you wouldn't mind, I'd like to read more about this. Can you give me a little more information - such as, what the work in question was, and what year the WSFS Business Meeting responded, and what the amendment was?

Whether or not you have time to respond this request, thank you for your comments over the last year - you've really helped to elevate the discourse of the seemingly endless puppy debates.

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

Among many other ways, you can write to kevin_standlee@livejournal.com and it will forward the message to me.

I will respond to your question in a top-level post.