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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not you. Most modern literary fiction is awful. There has been a lot written about this; [b]if you're a white man, e.g., you can't get published. [/b]The big publishers and the reviewers have built a cabal that recycles [b]only women / BIPOC authors who write about social justice-type issues[/b], and a lot of what passes for "serious" writing is just YA fiction with bigger words. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow was a great example of this--a terrible book, essentially YA, with a character list that could have been AI-generated for intersectional relevance. Go back to anything serious written between 1920 and 2000; there is a huge well of amazing writing that will make you realize that modern "literature" is a barren wasteland.[/quote]

Oh my gosh, you've really cast yourself as a victim. So you're a white guy trying to get published and have decided that instead of your books just not being all that good, it's some sort of conspiracy against white guys? Mediocre white guys have gotten the lion's share of publishing contracts for centuries. In modern times, James Paterson, Stephen King, John Grisham, David Baldacci, Dan Brown, Dean Koontz, and the like have been rolling in dough and some of their books have been formulaic trash. The bar for white, male writers is LOW.

Women buy most of the books and we want more diverse stories than what the white guys are writing.[/quote]

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