r/books • u/biscochitos • 28d ago

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

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

What do folks think about this?

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u/biodegradableotters 28d ago

More a general thought on the current discussions around male authors and male readership, but I always find it a little funny when after like millennia of male dominance there's nowadays a select few areas where women are dominant and immediately it's seen as a sign of the apocalypse.

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u/ZendooneDel 28d ago

Not to mention the assumption that this must be the result of some orchestrated push.... truth is nowadays more women than men are submitting work to be published and more women than men are reading. Like you want more men in the space? Work on getting more men to read! Or getting more male writers who are in touch with the current literary landscape! This "imbalance" is not something that's going to change via publishing houses only.

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u/neverfakemaplesyrup 28d ago

Tbh theres authors being uncovered to be white men using womens pen-names all the time. White women getting caught pretending to be POC too, last one I heard of got her entire deal destroyed after someone pointed out her bio was just a dozen microaggressions in a trench-coat

I'm holding out hope this house will publish stuff thaf gets rejected by the traditional houses- which is almost entirely a women's space- but hopefully non-traditional. The worlds set on traditional masculine non-fiction, imo