“Let them write books.”
—with apologies to Marie Antoinette
Don’t like the gate keepers in Publishing? Self-publish. You’ll make more money, get to do whatever you like, have more contact with your fans, and be in complete control of your career.
Of course, you will never beat Noah Ward for a Hugo, but who will after this last year?
If there’s a lack of diversity, it ain’t what this guy says, all right. Try getting a conservative book published at any but a handful of conservative-labeled houses. There’s certainly no lack of drivel coming from over-represented classes of authors.
That said, if you want to publish in this world, you might just have to work harder, so instead of whining about diversity, write harder and better than the rest. Hmmmm, where have I heard that before?
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diversity drama queens. what fools.
I’ve bought all of Dinesh D’Souza’s books and the Obama regime put him in jail for it.
If Rai were intellectually serious, he would recognize this as a business opportunity. No one is stopping him, or anyone else, from publishing books aimed at purportedly under-represented groups.
The way around that, if they can't find enough black authors, is to have white ghostwriters with a black person's name as author. It worked with Dreams from My Father.