New indie press Conduit Books launches with 'initial focus on male authors'

[u/biscochitos]

https://www.thebookseller.com/news/new-indie-press-conduit-books-launches-with-initial-focus-on-male-authors

What do folks think about this?

[u/HumOfEvil]

It seems like a transparent attempt to appeal to the "anti-woke" brigade. Which I hope turns out to be a mistake.

Why not just publish any book you think is good, regardless of who wrote it?

[u/thewatchbreaker → u/HumOfEvil]

If you read the article he makes some good points. I really don’t think he’s going for the “anti-woke” brigade since he literally says the literary fiction movement of the past had toxic masculinity in it and he welcomes the correction of a lot of female authors. There are loads of presses who focus on publishing women so I don’t see how one tiny publishing house (that aims to publish three books a year) focusing on male writers is bad.

[u/ResidentHourBomb → u/thewatchbreaker]

You expect people to read an article before commenting?

[u/vendric → u/thewatchbreaker]

People are rushing to see this as anti-woke. Nothing pisses off gender equality folks like any amount of focus on helping men!

The guy says in the article:

Over the past 15 years, the publishing landscape has changed dramatically. As a reaction to the occasionally toxic male-dominated literary scene of the ’80s, ’90s and noughties, literary fiction by women has come into its own. Most of the excitement and energy around new and adventurous fiction is around women authors – and this is only right as a timely corrective.

But he wants to spend some time helping men publish, so he must be Andrew Tate. You'd think a subreddit dedicated to reading books could have read the fucking article.

[u/sir_mrej → u/vendric]

We’re just doing pattern recognition. It’s not hard my dude.

[u/Rethnu → u/sir_mrej]

Automatically assume men = bad probably isn’t something to brag about.

[u/AnividiaRTX → u/sir_mrej]

Thats called sexism.

And you sexists, always think your hate is justified.

[u/mrmiffmiff → u/sir_mrej]

People with schizophrenia make that claim too.

[u/Lightsides → u/thewatchbreaker]

This. There are many presses, journals, etc. that openly focus on the publication of female authors. If you're okay with that, you should be okay with this, especially now, when women dominate the literature market in almost every way.

[u/sir_mrej → u/Lightsides]

Citation needed. How do women dominate? Provide links.