6 thoughts on “GenCon”

  1. I gradually stopped going to SF cons, both as a pro guest and as an attendee, because of these people and their foolishness. I stopped submitting to so-called “pro” markets after a major pro-rate digest rejected a story with a two-page letter full of SJW talking points. Since I was setting up my fairly extensive backlist as ebooks anyway, I decided I might as well go indie. No gatekeepers to say my work is too offensive anymore. It’s their loss. I’ve had way more career than most writers get.

    1. Yeah, pretty much the same here. I remember when I’d have loved to have a book published by Tor, but if it happened today I’d be embarrassed instead.

      I would boycott them, but they no longer really publish anything I’d want to buy anyway.

      1. I never looked with any favor at Tor, though I published books with most other major houses over the years. I always thought of Tor as being kind of like DAW. Now they’re all like that, and the editors I got along with are dead or retired. I read mostly indie output these days, and even there, try to steer clear of the writers who seem closest to the former “pro” model. I’ve read some amazing stuff that the “gatekeepers” evidently failed to notice.

  2. Most people think stuff like this is stupid to worry about. They could care less about the personal drama at some nerd thing. But they should be paying attention because this is happening everywhere now and the people who don’t care about politics are going to find out too late that politics cares about them.

    1. the people who don’t care about politics are going to find out too late that politics cares about them.

      This is the frightening situation I’ve found myself in the last two years.

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