Kevin Standlee: Fandom Is My Way of Life

I have indeed considered walking away; however, doing so would be allowing a fractious minority who managed to gain a temporary sway — remember that swinging a single vote could have changed the entire result — to walk away with the main prize. For now, I'm going to do what I can. However, I am not the good writer and am mainly just a maintainer. Don't expect the advances in publicity that we've had over the past few years. Also, the new Chair of the HAMC, Rene Walling, is a friend of mine (although I disagree with him on this particular policy), and enthusiastic about marketing the Hugo Awards, so perhaps this is not a catastrophe. But it's nonetheless disheartening.