Post by HeddaGabler on Mar 28, 2024 16:57:27 GMT
Anyone care to weigh-in on why the New Demons Anthology went tits up?
This was a promising book filled with amazing talent. Big names. And suddenly, everyone? has withdrawn from participating.
Why? Because it appears there has been a long term issue with someone involved. Reading a Substack of one of these authors, it wasn’t confined to this one book or one incident.
It looks like this disease has stewed in its own juices for a long time. When a dossier of misconduct and unsettling information that appears to be as thick as a Stephen King book is revealed, and no one stood up to it sooner? No one called it out to protect the wider community? Let’s just let the new writers fall prey to unethical people and practices? Because, it happened to me, fuck them, they are on their own. Whispers to friends and colleagues, but nothing to better strengthen the integrity of publishing?
Scandal after scandal has plagued the writing community for a while now and as a reader, that is discouraging. When librarians are being criminalized and books are being burned, we need to know too, so our dollars do not support these idiots.
You may say, shut up, you don’t know what you’re talking about.
AND THAT’S THE POINT.
I am a reader. A consumer. And I want my dollars to go to integrity-driven people and entities. So help me spend my money wisely. Help all of us joe blows support the companies/owners/employees who treat authors with respect and dignity and promote their work with creativity and class.
Help new authors know who to work with and sell to. Quit letting them fall prey to patterns of long-term unscrupulous dealings because they are so desperate to publish.
Mentors? Helpers? Advisers? My ass. Looks to me like established writers really don’t want that writing pool to expand despite what some say. Too many fish now. So let the new writers fall into every pit. Discourage them. Every writer for themselves.
I applaud those who pulled out of the project and are innuendo-ing problems. That helps. Quit hiding these people in the shadows.
I would like to know, why does it take 100 Writer Monkeys to champion the side of decent?
edited to add: Gabino Iglesias has more information on his Substack. Good write-up. Staying positive.
gabinoiglesias.substack.com/https://gabinoiglesias.substack.com/
Edited again to add Another link— explains even more and how no one knew any of the problems were happening. Once they were made aware and did due diligence to be fair, they dropped out. I am so proud to see that once information was available to them, they became a solid group of writers.
file770.com/authors-dropping-from-new-demons-anthology
Nice entry by Mary SanGiovanni and a reminder to me that there is always more to the story.
msgwriterslife.wordpress.com/2024/03/21/mamas-had-enough/
This was a promising book filled with amazing talent. Big names. And suddenly, everyone? has withdrawn from participating.
Why? Because it appears there has been a long term issue with someone involved. Reading a Substack of one of these authors, it wasn’t confined to this one book or one incident.
It looks like this disease has stewed in its own juices for a long time. When a dossier of misconduct and unsettling information that appears to be as thick as a Stephen King book is revealed, and no one stood up to it sooner? No one called it out to protect the wider community? Let’s just let the new writers fall prey to unethical people and practices? Because, it happened to me, fuck them, they are on their own. Whispers to friends and colleagues, but nothing to better strengthen the integrity of publishing?
Scandal after scandal has plagued the writing community for a while now and as a reader, that is discouraging. When librarians are being criminalized and books are being burned, we need to know too, so our dollars do not support these idiots.
You may say, shut up, you don’t know what you’re talking about.
AND THAT’S THE POINT.
I am a reader. A consumer. And I want my dollars to go to integrity-driven people and entities. So help me spend my money wisely. Help all of us joe blows support the companies/owners/employees who treat authors with respect and dignity and promote their work with creativity and class.
Help new authors know who to work with and sell to. Quit letting them fall prey to patterns of long-term unscrupulous dealings because they are so desperate to publish.
Mentors? Helpers? Advisers? My ass. Looks to me like established writers really don’t want that writing pool to expand despite what some say. Too many fish now. So let the new writers fall into every pit. Discourage them. Every writer for themselves.
I applaud those who pulled out of the project and are innuendo-ing problems. That helps. Quit hiding these people in the shadows.
I would like to know, why does it take 100 Writer Monkeys to champion the side of decent?
edited to add: Gabino Iglesias has more information on his Substack. Good write-up. Staying positive.
gabinoiglesias.substack.com/https://gabinoiglesias.substack.com/
Edited again to add Another link— explains even more and how no one knew any of the problems were happening. Once they were made aware and did due diligence to be fair, they dropped out. I am so proud to see that once information was available to them, they became a solid group of writers.
file770.com/authors-dropping-from-new-demons-anthology
Nice entry by Mary SanGiovanni and a reminder to me that there is always more to the story.
msgwriterslife.wordpress.com/2024/03/21/mamas-had-enough/
