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.
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.