What is your opinion on the Sad Puppies controversy that is happening in the Hugo nomination process?

I have a couple of friends who are Fantasy writers and they are embarrassed by it all. Seems to me to be no more than a bid for publicity to A) boost sales, and B) hopefully boost votes which leads back to A.
Social media (where I have seen the Sad Puppy stuff) is an outstanding, inexpensive, marketing tool.

The thing is I actually really like Correia’s work. And I understand the frustration that he and other conservative writers have had. The problem that I see it is that when homophobic assholes like this guy get nominated for three novellas, then you know that the system is busted.

I ‘ve kind of had the feeling that most Award systems have been busted for a long time. I haven’t read enough of the newer writers to really judge about them, I’m pretty old school.
But the whole concept of the awards has been political for a long time, maybe it’s not a bad thing to shine a light on it after all.

That’s kind of my opinion too. But even Sad Puppies has fragmented—this year there is a Rabid Puppies, run by another guy. Rabid Puppies and Sad Puppies hate each other. It’s degenerated this year.

I just want politics to be scrubbed from the conversation altogether. I don’t agree with Larry Correia’s politics on everything (nor do I always agree with John Scalzi—although I’m closer to him than Correia), I do like his work.