[Board] Fwd: Re: Would you like to be a Guest of Honor at Penguicon 5?

[Rob Landley]

On Friday 28 July 2006 15:43, Matt Arnold wrote:
> Anne Murphy.

I've apparently been out of the loop.  I was unaware that we were grooming 
next year's con chair this early, nor had I heard of this candidate before I 
got Matt's objections to a potential guest.

Wasn't this the person who was Neil Gaiman's handler, a guy who made his name 
writing comic books, but she doesn't want a "youth author".  Because somebody 
like J.K. Rowling would shame our con by her very presence.  (And Pratchett 
was on a book tour for "Wee Free Men", which has a nine year old protagonist 
fighting elves with the help of pictsies, and followed that up with "The 
Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents" which was officially positioned as 
a children's book.)

*shrug*  If she's con chair obviously she gets to say who the guests are.  I 
was unaware this decision had already been made...

Rob