"When the woman's prize for fiction was launched in 1996, it was badly needed; back then, female writers found it hard to get thier work published."
Even when it's trying to tackle an issue hurting men, they can't help but fall over themselves trying to simp for women.
To put it bluntly: Bullshit.
The idea of women underrepresentation in literature has never passed the smell test with me. Perhaps it's my bias and interest, but whenever that certain strain of feminists go all in about 'male dominance in literature', I look over at my bookshelf and see a wide spread of female authors, some of them very, very good, creating fond childhood memories, and having been around for a very, very long time. As far back as the 1970s you see some female giants in science fiction and fantasy - Marion Zimmer Bradley(pedophile rapist enabler that she was - oops! Whoopsie!), Anne McCaffery, CS Friedman, Lois McMaster Bujold - getting outside of those genres, Margaret Atwood, darling dujour of the left, has been writing novels since that time.
There's always been an undercurrent - a smell, if you will - that women have an expectation because of their halo effect to automatically receive accolades and accomplishments at whatever it is they do. But the written word doesn't discriminate, and all of a sudden said halo effect is utterly worthless, and they actually have to put in the effort and skill to be good at something rather than just show up and look cute.
The female takeover in publishing is driving by their self-indulgent victimization fetish - political activism writ large that completely ignores the reality on the ground that now gives them a private sandbox to do whatever it is they wish, supported blindly by simps and white knight male feminists.
This isn't even tackling the massive, monstrous elephant in the room; women-focused romance novels, which take up easily over 50% of the fiction landscape in terms of production and scales. Yes - female porn novels vastly outweigh EVERY OTHER GENRE in terms of dominance and money. It isn't even a contest.
As for a solution? For all it's ills, modern society has made self-publishing stupidly easy - who cares about who controls said publishing giants, when people are getting their fanfics put to print for actual money? Bypass the people who hate you, and go straight to the people who want to give you thier money in exchange for what you want to write.
The biggest problem with self-publishing though is marketing. Big publishers have thousands upon thousands of dollars to throw at marketing and deals with physical retailers. Publishing by yourself won't give you that option really.
The big publishers rarely spend anything on marketing for most authors.
The most likely scenario if you get a tradpub deal is a $5k advance, an editing pass, and a cover. Considering those would cost you $1-2k do to yourself, that's not nothing. But they still pretty much expect you to spend your own time and money marketing. The exceptions are the books they try to force into being popular which are usually DIE garbage.
The real problem is the Big 4 editors have become totally ideologically captured and completely lost touch with the market. They have no idea what sells anymore. The publishers just put out flop after flop and hope one of them somehow becomes a hit. That's why Barns and Noble stopped stocking debut hardcovers. None of the trash sells. https://www.reddit.com/r/selfpublish/comments/wxl645/barnes_and_noble_makes_it_harder_for_debut/
On top of this is of course how almost every functional component of the industry is utterly compromised. Particularly reviewers, who at least in ages past occasionally got a few things right. But now it's purely ideological nepotism, along with corporate DEI investors and DEI funded consultant firms.
And all of this, combined with what was inevitably going eventually become an easily over-saturated global market, with an over abundance of "too much shit" shit for anyone to ever have the time to sift through. And then there's the mess that a lot of web-based content/publishing opportunities offer, which rarely yields profits or sales worth mentioning. It sucks especially if you just want your work to be appreciated, regardless of how little money it makes.
And even further on top of that is the ever decreasing interest in written literature, the advent of AI, etc.
Part of the problem is that there are just 4 big publishers. Consolidation down to the point where it’s possible for all of them to be reading from the same play book. If there were 1,000 publishers at least some of them would be on a different page
Being a writer, sadly, is a passion project. You've got to love what you do. Novelists that make money off of it to the point they do nothing but are rare.
As for physical copies, print-on-demand is a thing. It's the one thing Amazon does really, really well.
You can't really play their game, so you have to flip the table.
As far back as the 1970s you see some female giants in science fiction and fantasy
For all the asterisks you need to put on the claim, Mary Shelley was one of the pioneers of Science fiction and was so big she eclipsed her own hugely famous husband in the public conscious for most of the 1900s until now.
And Ursula Le Guin, feminist loser she is who hasn't written shit of value in decades, set a lot of the ideas for the fantasy genre as it adapted to being not carbon copies of Tolkein after the 60s.
Shit To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the most American novels out there and literally anyone over the age of 15 probably knows the story. Woman writer in the 50s.
Writing has always been one of the most "women friendly" arenas out there, they just weren't churning out the vast amount of words that men as a whole were. Meaning they just weren't found as often due to sheer numerical disadvantage.
I noticed it years ago when my Goodreads book recommendations were suddenly 80% women - for science fiction that's dominated by male authors. I've missed the release of several good novels because male writers are being actively suppressed.
I've been thinking about this lately as well. Every Goodreads newsletter I get, no matter the theme or variety is packed full of the same corporate looking slop. Same cover style. Pushing 'female authors' and POC writers on me like it's something new or rare.
I'm thinking they'll sink under their own incompetance, or shrink the market like comics, once you drive out at least 90% of the male readers. Even hard sci-fi is wrecked at the moment. With every new book being a 'cozy slice of life, strong female lead, and questioning what it means to be a queer, neuro divergent blah blah in the 32nd century'
I think the covers are so obviously pandering, it's just for women to hold and virtue signal on the commute. The actual book never being read. Woke accessories.
Book publishing has been a loss-leader for influence peddling for a long time. The whole industry is basically a money-laundering operation so that Regime-approved lackeys can get bribes (e.g. Comey, Vindman, etc) disguised as paychecks for books.
This is most obvious in nonfiction but it applies to fiction too.
Women write like they talk. 99% of female authors are trash but 99% of writing out there is female. Go a bookstore and look around. You'll find female author after female author of obvious trash quality. Meanwhile, you'll find a few male authors here or there and obviously, they're writing quality.
If we banned women from writing the overall average quality of writing would soar immensely.
There's no saving the industry because women are in style right now and women buy their own trash. Ask a random young woman what she's reading and she'd almost always reading trash female authors. Try to suggest a good quality book written by a man and the women will always suggest such a read is "too difficult".
I've heard women who've joined book clubs talk about how they've read 50+ books this year. Then you see the books they've read and it's like reading a magazine, the quality is terrible. Meanwhile, an actual good book is like impossible for most women to read because they "won't get it" or it'll be "too hard".
Women did to writing what they did to gaming. Mobile gaming makes all the money now because of women and the quality is trash. With writing the worst quality books now make the most money because of women and women are the best at producing the lowest quality trash books other women buy.
You can't, because women make up the vast vast majority of book readers and consumers these days. The entire publishing industry is carried on the back of smut and true crime, both domains of women for women.
Like, ignoring all the ideological angles (which is clearly there), the money flows because of women and that means they will always be the primary focus. And in turn, they know the kind of vile, degenerate porn women want to read best (and the "totally not porn" as well like those self-help and misery books), which leads to them becoming the prime contributor as well.
I was in a writing class in high school, and even founded the writing club for that school with my actually published author teacher. Said club became almost entirely women, our publications were filled with cliche trite written by women, and all the votes and discussion about what was best were for the exact same shit women always want (emotional language, happy endings, progressive themes).
Books/writing stopped being a place men went to because alternative and more fulfilling forms of fictional entertainment exist now, leading to our numbers being spread thin across all the available options for each man's fancy. Wherein women don't engage in nearly as much and that keeps their fewer industries (like soap operas and daytime talk shows) so dominant and rich.
Anyone know why this is? I mean it's 100% true; every girl I've ever dated loved true crime books and movies- even the ones that weren't really readers.
I think true crime is OK, but don't understand the universal appeal with women.
Part of it is hybristophilia. They legitimately are super turned on by serial killers and criminals of all kinds, its pure porn to them. Talk to those girls and you'll find they have "favorites" that they are clearly infatuated with (one of the biggest podcasts for it is literally "My Favorite Murder"), and all the "I feel for the victims" is steeped in not looking bad and maintaining an image of progressivism (not shitting on hookers).
That's why its always serial killers are cults at the top, and not stuff like Bomb Collar or DC Sniper, because its a place where big strong men are taking what they want, manipulating people to their bidding, and generally being the Alphaest of Alpha males without a care about anyone else. If you look at which of those categories are the most "popular" after the pure media reasoning (biggest numbers, wildest story) its often the super attractive ones.
And all of that is because its literally "safe horny" for women. Its all the most fucked up fantasies they have sexually, being played out with plausible deniability (which is why they don't just watch fucking porn, people will judge them for it) and no actual danger to their wellbeing.
They legitimately are super turned on by serial killers and criminals of all kinds, its pure porn to them.
Violence turns them on, it’s true. Years ago in 2006 I was working some bullshit job in a convenience store with an incredibly hot girl, WAY out of my league. Barely even knew I existed, until the day I lost my cool and slammed the cash register closed, kicked over a display and told the boss to go fuck himself and his shitty job.
Saw her again at a bus stop a week later and she was suddenly laughing at my jokes, touching my arm, flicking the hair etc as if she’d been drinking. It was fuckin weird man.
I have spoken with multiple editors who always say that because the fiction market is 60% female, ALL books MUST target a female audience. The male audience is deemed irrelevant and doesn't matter. and they still say the industry is misogynist.
Furthermore, when books do sell to men and become popular, the big publishers essentially abandon that market to indies. I've had multiple authors report being told by editors that their male-focused story was great but because it was an indie-dominated space the mainstream publishers wouldn't touch it.
We really aren't that far out from being able to tell AI something like "Write me a ~500 page novel set in XX century with a flawed anti-hero protagonist. Use the following books and films for reference:..." and getting something of the same quality as your average human writer in response.
That's exactly what a character famous for his writing ability does in Philip K Dicks Penultimate Truth. Dick was prescient. It's not even a major plot point, just a bit of world building.
The only thing stopping this from happening right now is that the LLM tools basically don't have the memory capacity to keep continuity in a large scale. You can get a few pages out of the thing then it tends to start confusing elements.
But if you were writing a book and you outlined 50 chapters/scenes of ~5-10 pages each, you can easily keep the thing on-track for for duration of the scene and then end the chapter.
I knew about sci-fi and fantasy but didn’t know it’s all over wow. One thing that could fix it would be to accept that men and women generally have different tastes. You wouldn’t see a dude taking over romance stories and making them more male focused so why do you think it works in guy brands? Comic books should serve as the perfect example. Super hero comics I mean
You wouldn’t see a dude taking over romance stories and making them more male focused so why do you think it works in guy brands?
For the same reason every previously male-only space has been invaded by women. Men in general are fine with women having their own spaces (trannies excluded) but most women cannot stand the idea that men can gather without a female chaperone. Hence their continual encroachment and co-opting of previously male spaces.
Plus you have the existence of spiteful misandrists who see everything as a zero-sum game and just want to take away everything from men.
I got into an argument on Reddit about she-sheds. I was a misogynist because I said the whole she-shed in response to men having a man cave is stupid. The purpose of the man cave was the only room the male could decide it's primary function and decor, while the female did that for that entirety of the rest of the house. A female designated place is redundant and stupid.
Women just got angry that man caves entered the zeitgeist and normal people enjoyed the concept. But a bunch of cat ladies couldn't let men have even the concept of a place for a male to exist.
The best part about the man cave is that it’s typically a part of the house that is considered low value. The basement, the attic, the garage. Dank, musty, unfinished, ugly spaces. And yet they become comfortable refuges for men simply by din of catering to their preferences - and having no women. It’s like a little apartment inside your own house, reminding you what truly makes you happy.
You wouldn’t see a dude taking over romance stories and making them more male focused so why do you think it works in guy brands?
There was a tweet some years ago I really like about this scenario involving a dude going like:
I've always loved Lifetime movies, I grew up watching them and they are so special to me. That's why I made one about this big titty girl shooting dinosaurs with lasers until they explode.
Which distills the entire "women writers" thing down to its basics.
all that shit is basically "young adult fiction", that's what happened, it's what publishers are after exclusively these days, ever since Twilight's success.
Because I have limited my book reading primarily to authors published by Baen, or titles I found on Amazon, I haven't noticed the heavy female bias of regular publishing. I haven't even been into a book store in almost a decade.
If I were a male author, I wouldn't even try to get published with the Big 5 publishers. I'd try Baen, or some other smaller publisher, or just self publish on Amazon.
Baen is the only publisher I'm aware of that hasn't DEId. They publish good scifi. They dont care who the author is, which (surprise, surprise) means they mostly publish libertarian or conservative men.
I did come across a great self-published book recently. "Theft of Fire" by Devon Eriksen. The guy has fantastic posts on X too. Great long form eXsays tearing down leftist talking point and provided deep cultural and philosophical analysis of the world.
If you want some good historical fiction that everyone should check out Master and Commander. It is phenomenal. You'll learn a ton of history while being entertained by the action, humor, and adventure.
The point here is that the Publishing industry people (who do know your real name because they need to put it on their taxes & your paycheck) are the ones who are kicking out straight/White/male authors. Because the publishing industry is run by talentless bitter hags, POX and fags.
"When the woman's prize for fiction was launched in 1996, it was badly needed; back then, female writers found it hard to get thier work published."
Even when it's trying to tackle an issue hurting men, they can't help but fall over themselves trying to simp for women.
To put it bluntly: Bullshit.
The idea of women underrepresentation in literature has never passed the smell test with me. Perhaps it's my bias and interest, but whenever that certain strain of feminists go all in about 'male dominance in literature', I look over at my bookshelf and see a wide spread of female authors, some of them very, very good, creating fond childhood memories, and having been around for a very, very long time. As far back as the 1970s you see some female giants in science fiction and fantasy - Marion Zimmer Bradley(pedophile rapist enabler that she was - oops! Whoopsie!), Anne McCaffery, CS Friedman, Lois McMaster Bujold - getting outside of those genres, Margaret Atwood, darling dujour of the left, has been writing novels since that time.
There's always been an undercurrent - a smell, if you will - that women have an expectation because of their halo effect to automatically receive accolades and accomplishments at whatever it is they do. But the written word doesn't discriminate, and all of a sudden said halo effect is utterly worthless, and they actually have to put in the effort and skill to be good at something rather than just show up and look cute.
The female takeover in publishing is driving by their self-indulgent victimization fetish - political activism writ large that completely ignores the reality on the ground that now gives them a private sandbox to do whatever it is they wish, supported blindly by simps and white knight male feminists.
This isn't even tackling the massive, monstrous elephant in the room; women-focused romance novels, which take up easily over 50% of the fiction landscape in terms of production and scales. Yes - female porn novels vastly outweigh EVERY OTHER GENRE in terms of dominance and money. It isn't even a contest.
As for a solution? For all it's ills, modern society has made self-publishing stupidly easy - who cares about who controls said publishing giants, when people are getting their fanfics put to print for actual money? Bypass the people who hate you, and go straight to the people who want to give you thier money in exchange for what you want to write.
The biggest problem with self-publishing though is marketing. Big publishers have thousands upon thousands of dollars to throw at marketing and deals with physical retailers. Publishing by yourself won't give you that option really.
The big publishers rarely spend anything on marketing for most authors.
The most likely scenario if you get a tradpub deal is a $5k advance, an editing pass, and a cover. Considering those would cost you $1-2k do to yourself, that's not nothing. But they still pretty much expect you to spend your own time and money marketing. The exceptions are the books they try to force into being popular which are usually DIE garbage.
The real problem is the Big 4 editors have become totally ideologically captured and completely lost touch with the market. They have no idea what sells anymore. The publishers just put out flop after flop and hope one of them somehow becomes a hit. That's why Barns and Noble stopped stocking debut hardcovers. None of the trash sells. https://www.reddit.com/r/selfpublish/comments/wxl645/barnes_and_noble_makes_it_harder_for_debut/
On top of this is of course how almost every functional component of the industry is utterly compromised. Particularly reviewers, who at least in ages past occasionally got a few things right. But now it's purely ideological nepotism, along with corporate DEI investors and DEI funded consultant firms.
And all of this, combined with what was inevitably going eventually become an easily over-saturated global market, with an over abundance of "too much shit" shit for anyone to ever have the time to sift through. And then there's the mess that a lot of web-based content/publishing opportunities offer, which rarely yields profits or sales worth mentioning. It sucks especially if you just want your work to be appreciated, regardless of how little money it makes.
And even further on top of that is the ever decreasing interest in written literature, the advent of AI, etc.
Part of the problem is that there are just 4 big publishers. Consolidation down to the point where it’s possible for all of them to be reading from the same play book. If there were 1,000 publishers at least some of them would be on a different page
I didn't say it was easy, mind.
Being a writer, sadly, is a passion project. You've got to love what you do. Novelists that make money off of it to the point they do nothing but are rare.
As for physical copies, print-on-demand is a thing. It's the one thing Amazon does really, really well.
You can't really play their game, so you have to flip the table.
Publishing yourself now is still better deal than publishing through the big guys ever has been, even 45 years ago.
This is one of those things that I simply can't generate any sympathy for.
The awards, NYT best seller, all that shit is vanity. Womp womp you're not getting felated by the establishment.
The "opression" is excluding you from a club that sucked to belong to anyway. It's like being bared from a HOA. Like thank you very much.
What physical retailers?
For all the asterisks you need to put on the claim, Mary Shelley was one of the pioneers of Science fiction and was so big she eclipsed her own hugely famous husband in the public conscious for most of the 1900s until now.
And Ursula Le Guin, feminist loser she is who hasn't written shit of value in decades, set a lot of the ideas for the fantasy genre as it adapted to being not carbon copies of Tolkein after the 60s.
Shit To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the most American novels out there and literally anyone over the age of 15 probably knows the story. Woman writer in the 50s.
Writing has always been one of the most "women friendly" arenas out there, they just weren't churning out the vast amount of words that men as a whole were. Meaning they just weren't found as often due to sheer numerical disadvantage.
C.S. Friedman. Awesome books.
Agree 100% with the rest of your post.
Don't forget Diane Wynne Jones who wrote the Howl's Moving Castle Series
I noticed it years ago when my Goodreads book recommendations were suddenly 80% women - for science fiction that's dominated by male authors. I've missed the release of several good novels because male writers are being actively suppressed.
I've been thinking about this lately as well. Every Goodreads newsletter I get, no matter the theme or variety is packed full of the same corporate looking slop. Same cover style. Pushing 'female authors' and POC writers on me like it's something new or rare.
I'm thinking they'll sink under their own incompetance, or shrink the market like comics, once you drive out at least 90% of the male readers. Even hard sci-fi is wrecked at the moment. With every new book being a 'cozy slice of life, strong female lead, and questioning what it means to be a queer, neuro divergent blah blah in the 32nd century'
I think the covers are so obviously pandering, it's just for women to hold and virtue signal on the commute. The actual book never being read. Woke accessories.
Book publishing has been a loss-leader for influence peddling for a long time. The whole industry is basically a money-laundering operation so that Regime-approved lackeys can get bribes (e.g. Comey, Vindman, etc) disguised as paychecks for books.
This is most obvious in nonfiction but it applies to fiction too.
Women write like they talk. 99% of female authors are trash but 99% of writing out there is female. Go a bookstore and look around. You'll find female author after female author of obvious trash quality. Meanwhile, you'll find a few male authors here or there and obviously, they're writing quality.
If we banned women from writing the overall average quality of writing would soar immensely.
There's no saving the industry because women are in style right now and women buy their own trash. Ask a random young woman what she's reading and she'd almost always reading trash female authors. Try to suggest a good quality book written by a man and the women will always suggest such a read is "too difficult".
I've heard women who've joined book clubs talk about how they've read 50+ books this year. Then you see the books they've read and it's like reading a magazine, the quality is terrible. Meanwhile, an actual good book is like impossible for most women to read because they "won't get it" or it'll be "too hard".
Women did to writing what they did to gaming. Mobile gaming makes all the money now because of women and the quality is trash. With writing the worst quality books now make the most money because of women and women are the best at producing the lowest quality trash books other women buy.
I did get a young female intern to read a Brandon Sanderson novel instead of the romantasy stuff she normally reads. She loved it.
You can't, because women make up the vast vast majority of book readers and consumers these days. The entire publishing industry is carried on the back of smut and true crime, both domains of women for women.
Like, ignoring all the ideological angles (which is clearly there), the money flows because of women and that means they will always be the primary focus. And in turn, they know the kind of vile, degenerate porn women want to read best (and the "totally not porn" as well like those self-help and misery books), which leads to them becoming the prime contributor as well.
I was in a writing class in high school, and even founded the writing club for that school with my actually published author teacher. Said club became almost entirely women, our publications were filled with cliche trite written by women, and all the votes and discussion about what was best were for the exact same shit women always want (emotional language, happy endings, progressive themes).
Books/writing stopped being a place men went to because alternative and more fulfilling forms of fictional entertainment exist now, leading to our numbers being spread thin across all the available options for each man's fancy. Wherein women don't engage in nearly as much and that keeps their fewer industries (like soap operas and daytime talk shows) so dominant and rich.
Anyone know why this is? I mean it's 100% true; every girl I've ever dated loved true crime books and movies- even the ones that weren't really readers.
I think true crime is OK, but don't understand the universal appeal with women.
Part of it is hybristophilia. They legitimately are super turned on by serial killers and criminals of all kinds, its pure porn to them. Talk to those girls and you'll find they have "favorites" that they are clearly infatuated with (one of the biggest podcasts for it is literally "My Favorite Murder"), and all the "I feel for the victims" is steeped in not looking bad and maintaining an image of progressivism (not shitting on hookers).
That's why its always serial killers are cults at the top, and not stuff like Bomb Collar or DC Sniper, because its a place where big strong men are taking what they want, manipulating people to their bidding, and generally being the Alphaest of Alpha males without a care about anyone else. If you look at which of those categories are the most "popular" after the pure media reasoning (biggest numbers, wildest story) its often the super attractive ones.
And all of that is because its literally "safe horny" for women. Its all the most fucked up fantasies they have sexually, being played out with plausible deniability (which is why they don't just watch fucking porn, people will judge them for it) and no actual danger to their wellbeing.
Violence turns them on, it’s true. Years ago in 2006 I was working some bullshit job in a convenience store with an incredibly hot girl, WAY out of my league. Barely even knew I existed, until the day I lost my cool and slammed the cash register closed, kicked over a display and told the boss to go fuck himself and his shitty job.
Saw her again at a bus stop a week later and she was suddenly laughing at my jokes, touching my arm, flicking the hair etc as if she’d been drinking. It was fuckin weird man.
I have spoken with multiple editors who always say that because the fiction market is 60% female, ALL books MUST target a female audience. The male audience is deemed irrelevant and doesn't matter. and they still say the industry is misogynist.
Furthermore, when books do sell to men and become popular, the big publishers essentially abandon that market to indies. I've had multiple authors report being told by editors that their male-focused story was great but because it was an indie-dominated space the mainstream publishers wouldn't touch it.
Most books seem like they could be written by an AI trained on Harry Potter and LOTR.
We really aren't that far out from being able to tell AI something like "Write me a ~500 page novel set in XX century with a flawed anti-hero protagonist. Use the following books and films for reference:..." and getting something of the same quality as your average human writer in response.
That's exactly what a character famous for his writing ability does in Philip K Dicks Penultimate Truth. Dick was prescient. It's not even a major plot point, just a bit of world building.
The only thing stopping this from happening right now is that the LLM tools basically don't have the memory capacity to keep continuity in a large scale. You can get a few pages out of the thing then it tends to start confusing elements.
But if you were writing a book and you outlined 50 chapters/scenes of ~5-10 pages each, you can easily keep the thing on-track for for duration of the scene and then end the chapter.
Voila, book.
I knew about sci-fi and fantasy but didn’t know it’s all over wow. One thing that could fix it would be to accept that men and women generally have different tastes. You wouldn’t see a dude taking over romance stories and making them more male focused so why do you think it works in guy brands? Comic books should serve as the perfect example. Super hero comics I mean
For the same reason every previously male-only space has been invaded by women. Men in general are fine with women having their own spaces (trannies excluded) but most women cannot stand the idea that men can gather without a female chaperone. Hence their continual encroachment and co-opting of previously male spaces.
Plus you have the existence of spiteful misandrists who see everything as a zero-sum game and just want to take away everything from men.
I got into an argument on Reddit about she-sheds. I was a misogynist because I said the whole she-shed in response to men having a man cave is stupid. The purpose of the man cave was the only room the male could decide it's primary function and decor, while the female did that for that entirety of the rest of the house. A female designated place is redundant and stupid.
Women just got angry that man caves entered the zeitgeist and normal people enjoyed the concept. But a bunch of cat ladies couldn't let men have even the concept of a place for a male to exist.
The best part about the man cave is that it’s typically a part of the house that is considered low value. The basement, the attic, the garage. Dank, musty, unfinished, ugly spaces. And yet they become comfortable refuges for men simply by din of catering to their preferences - and having no women. It’s like a little apartment inside your own house, reminding you what truly makes you happy.
Once again comic book industry and gaming industry are prime examples
There was a tweet some years ago I really like about this scenario involving a dude going like:
Which distills the entire "women writers" thing down to its basics.
I love that example!
all that shit is basically "young adult fiction", that's what happened, it's what publishers are after exclusively these days, ever since Twilight's success.
Repeal the 19th for starters.
Meh. In the age of Twitter and self publishing, you don't need these gatekeeping old shrews anymore.
Because I have limited my book reading primarily to authors published by Baen, or titles I found on Amazon, I haven't noticed the heavy female bias of regular publishing. I haven't even been into a book store in almost a decade.
If I were a male author, I wouldn't even try to get published with the Big 5 publishers. I'd try Baen, or some other smaller publisher, or just self publish on Amazon.
Baen is the only publisher I'm aware of that hasn't DEId. They publish good scifi. They dont care who the author is, which (surprise, surprise) means they mostly publish libertarian or conservative men.
I did come across a great self-published book recently. "Theft of Fire" by Devon Eriksen. The guy has fantastic posts on X too. Great long form eXsays tearing down leftist talking point and provided deep cultural and philosophical analysis of the world.
If you want some good historical fiction that everyone should check out Master and Commander. It is phenomenal. You'll learn a ton of history while being entertained by the action, humor, and adventure.
Just looked up Devon Eriksen on twitter -- great guy, thanks for the recommendation.
Self-publish. Also, nice simping for DEI initiatives while complaining about the inevitable consequence of DEI initiatives.
Anti-Parallelism.
Publish those who are not being published.
Just publish under a female name
The point here is that the Publishing industry people (who do know your real name because they need to put it on their taxes & your paycheck) are the ones who are kicking out straight/White/male authors. Because the publishing industry is run by talentless bitter hags, POX and fags.