SFWA thinks it's the Bush Administration

[sleigh]

I used to have the SFWA anti-piracy logo on the front page of my website. I've now taken it off, as it appears SFWA has become overzealous in its pursuit of piracy. When you order the takedown of Creative Commons fiction for an author who you are not representing, when you evidently do a simple search for an author's name and order a site to remove all the files the search returns, you have overstepped all reasonable bounds.

I sent in my dues to SFWA this year, as I seem to do every year lately, with increasing reluctance. SFWA seems to be becoming less and less relevant with each passing year -- overrun by stupid flame wars, by award-nomination-trading, by the voting drag of a population of people who are no longer professionally-publishing writers but who remain in Active status because once attained, that status is retained for as long as you care to pay your dues.

It's far past time for SFWA to require that Active members 're-credential' their Active status, so that the voting members of the organization are all writers whose careers will be directly affected by the outcome of any vote. I'm getting far, far more 'bang for my buck' from SFNovelists, the new group Toby Buckell started strictly for published novelists of the genre (and which does require that you publish every so often.)

Dear Officers of SFWA, I'm ashamed and I'm angry reading about this. You have cast all members in a poor light by this action, and I want an explanation as to why and how this happened....

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[paulmelko.livejournal.com]

Yes, I believe the loan has been repaid.

Paul