I went to a local bookstore the other day, the sci-fi section had two books by male authors, a Dune re-release and a book by Adrian Tchaikovsky. The fantasy section only had book fourteen for The Wheel of Time (Only the new cover, the black cover is impossible to find) I couldn't find anything interesting, it was all urban fantasy or YA novels targeted at adults. If you want to find good books these days you have to do so online because they are self-published. Only second hand books stores are worth going to anymore.
Woke publishing leads to censorship and an entire disregard for reader choice. Turn your back on traditional publishing and self publish. You should tell what ever story you want to write, and it readers don't like it, for what ever reason, they don't have to buy it. And never, never never use a sensativity reader.
The fact writers are actually being swayed by public offense is crazy. Has it not always been artists that push people to uncomfortable edges? If you're concerned completely with marketability of your novel, are you truly writing honestly?
Pretty much all modern mainstream book publishing is gatekept by woke women. That's why a lot of men are going independent and why we haven't had a hit from a new author in the Sci-Fi/Fantasy categories in years. Everyone even a bit talented gets shut out because any kind of decent fiction requires realism and these people are allergic to it.
So I’ve noticed as a YA fantasy aspiring writer. Go down the YA aisle and 95% of the author names on the book covers are women. Where did all the men go? Did they all get pushed back exclusively for the hard sci-fi and adult action/adventure genres?
@@HarbingerH If only, even there you can hardly find any new authors backed by traditional publishing houses. Only people who got in before the mauve/teal wall was put up.
@@PasOdMater I can see what’s happening, but I don’t know why. I’m honestly out of context. It’s also something I haven’t really seen anyone else mention outside of these videos.
@@HarbingerH Because a new generation of female agents/editors got straight out of the university indoctrination system into these companies and proceeded to force their worldview on the rest of us. The only thing I can't understand is why the people running those companies are fine with losing so much money year after year.
@@HarbingerH Same with mysteries. I'm 50% finished with a cat mystery (burgeoning genre). The cat mystery genre is 100% women, and 99% of all cozies are women. (I know, I know, it's a feminine genre but there are dudes who read that stuff. I know because I was in prison and the library there had a ton of both subgenres. AND romance!)
How dare you write only about your race/gender/sexual orientation, leaving marginalized groups unrepresented? How dare you write about someone outside your group and lived experience, and appropriate their culture?
Excellent work, Mr. Chamberlain. This issue is of vital importance. I had to self-publish my own horror novel, The Berlin Fraternity, because the main character is chief vampire hunter to Adolf Hitler. Apparently, the horrors of the Third Reich are too much horror for the horror genre.
Which is about as ridiculous as it gets. If a character dies it can't be seen as an affront to any characteristic they might possess. And if there are going to be a diverse mixture of characters, which there should be, they can't all be safe/moral/ethical/desirable role models. To do so is nonsense.
Damn. We had to read the fault in our stars and the hate u give in class most nothing novels i've ever read, all I can remember is one had cancer and gay, and the other was unintentionally funny at times
Maybe you should read more than just the books assigned to you in class, so your reading comprehension gets better. The author of the Fault in our Stars is a guy, and neither of the main characters are gay.
@@robinwhg I was talking about the stuff I had to read in class in middle and highschool. (Past tense). Maybe I am confusing the fault in our stars for some other book, but they all read the same anyways.
I went to a local bookstore the other day, the sci-fi section had two books by male authors, a Dune re-release and a book by Adrian Tchaikovsky. The fantasy section only had book fourteen for The Wheel of Time (Only the new cover, the black cover is impossible to find) I couldn't find anything interesting, it was all urban fantasy or YA novels targeted at adults.
If you want to find good books these days you have to do so online because they are self-published. Only second hand books stores are worth going to anymore.
If you're alright with a slight liberal lean, I found the Magnus Archives pretty fun, good study listening.
@@keithbrannon251 That looks interesting, thank you for the recommendation.
Woke publishing leads to censorship and an entire disregard for reader choice. Turn your back on traditional publishing and self publish. You should tell what ever story you want to write, and it readers don't like it, for what ever reason, they don't have to buy it. And never, never never use a sensativity reader.
The fact writers are actually being swayed by public offense is crazy. Has it not always been artists that push people to uncomfortable edges? If you're concerned completely with marketability of your novel, are you truly writing honestly?
Pretty much all modern mainstream book publishing is gatekept by woke women. That's why a lot of men are going independent and why we haven't had a hit from a new author in the Sci-Fi/Fantasy categories in years. Everyone even a bit talented gets shut out because any kind of decent fiction requires realism and these people are allergic to it.
So I’ve noticed as a YA fantasy aspiring writer. Go down the YA aisle and 95% of the author names on the book covers are women. Where did all the men go? Did they all get pushed back exclusively for the hard sci-fi and adult action/adventure genres?
@@HarbingerH If only, even there you can hardly find any new authors backed by traditional publishing houses. Only people who got in before the mauve/teal wall was put up.
@@PasOdMater I can see what’s happening, but I don’t know why. I’m honestly out of context. It’s also something I haven’t really seen anyone else mention outside of these videos.
@@HarbingerH Because a new generation of female agents/editors got straight out of the university indoctrination system into these companies and proceeded to force their worldview on the rest of us. The only thing I can't understand is why the people running those companies are fine with losing so much money year after year.
@@HarbingerH Same with mysteries. I'm 50% finished with a cat mystery (burgeoning genre). The cat mystery genre is 100% women, and 99% of all cozies are women. (I know, I know, it's a feminine genre but there are dudes who read that stuff. I know because I was in prison and the library there had a ton of both subgenres. AND romance!)
How dare you write only about your race/gender/sexual orientation, leaving marginalized groups unrepresented?
How dare you write about someone outside your group and lived experience, and appropriate their culture?
Excellent work, Mr. Chamberlain. This issue is of vital importance. I had to self-publish my own horror novel, The Berlin Fraternity, because the main character is chief vampire hunter to Adolf Hitler. Apparently, the horrors of the Third Reich are too much horror for the horror genre.
Joss Whedon is one of the wokest people around. When he killed off Tara in Buffy, he was accused of being anti gay.
Which is about as ridiculous as it gets. If a character dies it can't be seen as an affront to any characteristic they might possess. And if there are going to be a diverse mixture of characters, which there should be, they can't all be safe/moral/ethical/desirable role models. To do so is nonsense.
great information
Damn. We had to read the fault in our stars and the hate u give in class
most nothing novels i've ever read, all I can remember is one had cancer and gay, and the other was unintentionally funny at times
Maybe you should read more than just the books assigned to you in class, so your reading comprehension gets better. The author of the Fault in our Stars is a guy, and neither of the main characters are gay.
@@robinwhg I was talking about the stuff I had to read in class in middle and highschool. (Past tense).
Maybe I am confusing the fault in our stars for some other book, but they all read the same anyways.
It all comes down to the fact that most writers todays are weak.
As writers they are terrible writing their public statements.
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