Inclusion–Yur Doin It Right

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Jim Hines again, but this time his post is pre-cognitive, because I've been thinking about this one myself. Hunh. Who knew that winning a Hugo made you precognitive?

(Because yes, Jim did win the Hugo for Best Fan Writer. And you heard it first here, back when the nomination was a twinkle in this author's eye. Not that I'm taking any credit or anything. Even though credit is mine and I AM A KING MAKER!!!

Ahem. Congrats to Jim C. Hines for winning the Hugo for Best Fan Writer.

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Rather than pointing out stories of people blowing others off inappropriately, let's study a couple of examples of gallant behavior that we can all model our interactions on.

Scenario the first: Hugh Howey

So there I was, waiting for...something, and I ran into Ann Leckie. Quite frankly, Ann is awesome. We met at a Codex breakfast at Wiscon two years back, and we share similar philosophies on writing. She's a joy to talk to, and I had the opportunity to talk to her a few times this convention.

Well, we started talking about this and that, and I decided to tell her my Ursula Vernon story. Which is a great story when done with right inflections and exaggerations. The short version is that I love, love, love Digger, and I was very excited about it.

And then this tastefully dressed gentlemen sitting on the couch not far from Ann, who was reviewing what looked like a manuscript or law briefs, very politely said, "Excuse me?"

Ann and I looked up. He said, "I've never met a woman my age who was interested in comic books before."

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