Hello world, it is me. Have you missed me?

The LGBT History Month thing in Bristol is over, though I still have the Manchester event to attend. Bristol seemed to go rather well, if I say so myself. But then I have been involved in running Worldcons, I know how to do this stuff. Other people, it seems, have a lot to learn about conventions. On my way home I checked Twitter and found this utterly horrific tale of one person’s experience as a Guest of Honor at a convention in the States.

I have seen some pretty bad treatment of GoHs in my time, most famously George RR Martin at the 2003 Worldcon. However, I can’t recall anything as bad as this. It kind of makes me wish that I was still doing Emerald City so that I could have a good rant where lots of con-runners would read it. I guess that Mike Glyer will be all over it.

Please folks, do not do this. Abusing GoHs makes us all look bad, and that makes it much harder for everyone else to run a good convention.