



file770.com/grrm-on-the-hu… Reading this postmortem of the Hugo Losers Party where the explanation boils down to "we had to account for the people who just show up without an invitation" and "we expected the venue to let us overflow" and... some people really lead different lives.

Last year in San Jose, a few people asked if I was going to the HLP. I said no, I wasn't invited. I was nowhere near the ballot that year; it was only through extraordinary circumstances I was back in Kansas City two years before.

And a lot of people told me they figured if I'd been once I could definitely get in again. I was like, okay, maybe if that's a thing, so I kind of put out some feelers to find out if there was any official kind of emeritus status, and it didn't seem like there was.