[ SECRET POST #5933 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5933 ⌋

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Will be missing a Friday post this week (traveling!). Just a heads up!

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Comments

[starfleetbrat]

You know I had never heard of this author or his books before last weekend and now they are popping up everywhere. On booktube, blogs, and now even here. Is there something new with him going on to create all this content based around him or does he just have a really clever marketing team?

[feotakahari]

Looks like there was a Wired article that really made fans angry.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not even a fan of his, and the article made me angry. It was petty clickbait and a prime example of how everyone irrationally needs to have a moral reason behind their dislike for media. It wasn't enough for the journalist (and I should put that in quotes) to just not like the guy's books, he had to reach for a reason why he's objectively a bad person.

[(Anonymous)]

He's been a booktube darling for a while if your genre of choice is adult fantasy as opposed to YA, or contemporary fiction. And he has churned out plenty of books. But the recent article probably led to people who normally talk about other stuff to talk about him, too.

[starfleetbrat]

yeah I am mostly a sci-fi/horror person, but I've followed quite a few new (to me) people in the past month or two who read wider including fantasy (fantasy is so not my cup of tea) so I guess that might be why he is coming up more often. Though some of my regular channels have mentioned him too.

[(Anonymous)]

I haven’t heard about the article everyone is mentioning but I do know he is one of the trailblazers for Kickstarter publishing* and has been doing a ton of marketing because of it.

*Kickstarter publishing meaning authors who leave their publishers and then fund their own publishing on KS. They get a lot more money, more freedom with choice of editor, artwork, digital copy quality and distribution, audio narration and distribution, etc.

[(Anonymous)]

There was the Wired article recently, but also, he is probably the most popular active writer of (non-YA) epic fantasy.

He is a big deal in those circles.