At this point awards for anything don't mean much to me anymore. Especially when it turns into a big block for one publisher or another. *cough* TOR, Orbit, Macmillan ect. Of those, even Baen, I wouldn't want them to dominate everything.
Otherwise stuff gets shuffled deeper. Which is the problem amazon is having.
The usual Kicking has arrived.
This is from part of her article. Somehow they don't want to mention me. Yes madam commentator, that one book feels like Romance from its cover and blurb! I guess they want to erase women like me because we have too much wrongthink.
Take a look at it, what does this say to you?
In the early 1900s, a young woman embarks on a fantastical journey of self-discovery after finding a mysterious book in this captivating and lyrical debut.
Purple prose out the ass.
I didn't even look at the sample. Because the whole package screams Romance and I don't want it. As a side dish maybe but not as the main course. This book is coded poorly.
Shit, you want some fun romance?
Parasol Protectorate.
That series has something for everyone. Of the romance variety. Its actually funny. Likable characters, has some racier things If you are so inclined and has a fun story. The men and women work as a team. Hot damn! She's one of the few romance people I will read. Its a very short list. Gini Koch is also on that list.
Henry Vogel is on that list because he makes adorkable couples too. But without the more R-rated material. A regular beam of sunshine.
Read more fun things 2020!
These people don't deserve readers time or money. They have no idea how to write legit happy protagonists or likeable characters to root for so all Ill do is laugh at samples and keep going. I might make a "FL woman on 2 or more Long Island Ice Tea recordings/readings."
No, its the critical darlings that are out of touch with people in general. You see in it Hollowwood. Remakes upon remakes upon reboots. That get less and less returns each time.
Here's the rest of her stuff. Its almost word for word what File770 was saying.
Twitter is their bubble. Regular readers like me only went there to find friends that already had accounts. I havent read an actual Hugo winner in a while because they are boring mundane manifesto crap fiction about our craptastic world with craptastic protagonists that are as shitty as the average news broadcast nowadays. Making a point to drag books and entertainment into the Muck with the rest of the "lets embrace our FLAWS and not work to a better tomorrow" mindset.
If anything, the constant barrage of "GREY IS THE BESTEST EVAR" for writing characters, has made me even more stubborn and unwilling to look at these "modern" darlings. They want people to think that my relic tastes are extremely unpopular but that's not true. Most people aren't reading books anymore. They are reading manga or light novels to get their fix of adventure.
So that's why I am going to be even more determined to recommend stuff I find fun. Even if it hardly gets any grief clicks.
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