Do any of you pay $200 to go buy books? Is this failure really a surprise?
(www.newsweek.com)
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Judging from videos and pictures of the event, 90% of the authors appear to be women. That seems... a mildly unbalanced ratio, to say the least.
Men aren't writing books anymore, or at least not getting them published. The literary industry is deeply unhealthy from what little I've heard.
I can guarantee you its not that men aren't writing, its that publishing companies are giving them the same DEI blockade as every other industry.
Most of them aren't trying to buy a book to sell because its a good book. They are trying to buy an author to sell a story about you in which the book is just a secondary thought. Its why like every third book now is a memoir or biography.
This guy understands 21st century marketing
The drama even includes goodreads if you go back far enough.
Women and PoC. Then they get very confused by complete lack of book sales.
There's a huge amount of blatant sexism against straight white male authors, and they basically aren't allowed to exist if they didn't already get established at least a couple decades ago. They don't win awards, they rarely get published, they don't get scholarships, they don't get featured on lists that drive sales, and that all goes double if they dare to write a book about a straight white male. The ratios are worse than 10:1. Someone here linked this a while back and I saved it.
Which is why you're more likely to find worthwhile fiction on royal road and the like than published on paper.
Gonna go out on a limb and guess that this is another case of straight White men being the uncontested best at a thing and a subsequent social engineering campaign design to depose them from their rightfully earned throne.
There's a vicious cycle of men don't read as many fiction books, male authors don't write as many fiction books, demographic is female dominant, more women write books because of the larger female audience, fewer men read fiction...
At least if it was that ratio at a manga convention, I might just be able to get some REALLY TWISTED and sick but fun reads.
This is probably women writing with ZERO meritocracy so don't blame people bailing.
This post reminds me of a novel I tried a loooong time ago titled "Woman who Rides like a Man" and basically all the dialogue (in the short bit before I dropped it) was "OMG I can't believe you do these things that men do even though you are not a man!"
And by comparison in a meritocratic, competitive industry with no hand holding, one of my favourite works, Fullmetal Alchemist was written by female author Hiromu Arakawa.
It's almost like good writing is good writing regardless of who does it... But the west would rather push leftist slop
The only way to sell books as a male author is to self publish, it's been years since any major publisher actually picked up a white male author.