Stop paying them!
Don't buy the books, don't attend the con.
They want to be an exclusive club of incestuous group-think, let them.
Let them do it without your money.
"But I voted the sad/rabid puppy tranche!" and paid the people you oppose to do so.
Never support the livelihood of someone who hates you and wishes to destroy you.
I hate to say it, but fiction authors are a form of dancing monkey.
People who attend fan conventions are the monkeys who dance for the dancing monkeys.
Don't buy the books, don't attend the con.
They want to be an exclusive club of incestuous group-think, let them.
Let them do it without your money.
"But I voted the sad/rabid puppy tranche!" and paid the people you oppose to do so.
Never support the livelihood of someone who hates you and wishes to destroy you.
I hate to say it, but fiction authors are a form of dancing monkey.
People who attend fan conventions are the monkeys who dance for the dancing monkeys.