Naomi you've changed!

[hollyking]

Yesterday hollyqueen and I booked rooms and bought our memberships for Norwescon 31. Coincidentally we received the "PR Alpha Report" in the mail for the con. These events are pretty mundane. It's what happened later that I find amusing.

You see I was sitting on the couch and playing a well deserved round of Guitar Hero 3 when hollyqueen says "I didn't know Naomi Novik was black." "She's not," I replied. As one of my favorite authors I've friended her LJ (naominovik) and browsed around her website a bit. So I opened my copy of the report to page 9 and the face that's smiling at me isn't the same one I see on Naomi's website. I'm pretty sure that the picture is of Andrea Hairston. Whoops.

I should add that I really don't care about the race of Naomi, Andrea or anyone else. Naomi can be as black as she wants if that makes her happy. I like the system we used in boot camp where everyone is green. Some are lighter green and some are darker but we're all slogging through the same crap together.