My Wife’s Would-Be Resignation from SFWA
Here is a link to Mrs. Wright, known to the world under the pen name (and her maiden name) L. Jagi Lamplighter. While she was not formally a member, she was the one who paid for us and took advantage of the membership benefits, read the Bulletin, and so on.
You or I perhaps could not resign from a guild of which we are not a member, but the amazing Mrs. Wright can do unlikely feats
I do not get to withdraw formally from SFWA because they did not realize I was a member…but I ran John’s membership for years (except for the voting. He did that.) And we both agreed to leave before John withdrew.
I am not like John, who doesn’t pay attention to worldly things and whose only regret about dropping out of SFWA will be that he can no longer write funny stories about visiting the secret SFWA mansion in Pennsylvania.
I loved SFWA.
I adored it. I dreamed of joining for years. I carefully waited and planned, striving to earn the right to be a member.
For over thirty years.
I admired those who were members and cherished my bulletin which I read religiously. (Mainly Laura Resnick, back when she wrote for it, and, after her, the due of her father and the other gentleman he wrote with. Their articles were the best part.)
The only reason I was not a member was that John joined first. For me to join would have been double the money for the same services. They have a joint membership now, I believe. I had been planning to ask to join this summer when his membership came due.
But now…I am abandoning that dream.
Here, simply, are my reasons
http://www.ljagilamplighter.com/2014/04/29/my-would-be-resignation-from-sfwa/
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
