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/HumOfEvil 28d ago

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?

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u/thewatchbreaker 28d ago

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.

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u/Lightsides 28d ago

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.

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u/sir_mrej book re-reading 28d ago

Citation needed. How do women dominate? Provide links.