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Two Gorillion Dollars said:
It appears they wrote a story where some people with dark skin are part of an evil empire that's oppressing a fair skinned "blood witch." So, the author is being pilloried for indulging reverse racism by having some black characters oppressing a white character (although reviewers note that there are multiple ethnicities in the evil empire, it isn't just black people) and for anti-Semitism as having magic based on blood is apparently support of blood libel. That's the best I can find. It all appears to have come from one person's tweets on the subject. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it's another trad. author going on the attack.

This book is apparently coming out in November. Four months of Twitter hate mob review bombing and frenzied posting for her debut novel!
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That reminds me of how upset twitter was that the Star Wars reboots all had a diverse empire to satisfy Disney woke hiring practices. "Nooo black people can't be Nazis noooo!" You literally cannot win if you play their game.
 
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Two Gorillion Dollars said:
It appears they wrote a story where some people with dark skin are part of an evil empire that's oppressing a fair skinned "blood witch." So, the author is being pilloried for indulging reverse racism by having some black characters oppressing a white character (although reviewers note that there are multiple ethnicities in the evil empire, it isn't just black people) and for anti-Semitism as having magic based on blood is apparently support of blood libel. That's the best I can find. It all appears to have come from one person's tweets on the subject. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it's another trad. author going on the attack.

This book is apparently coming out in November. Four months of Twitter hate mob review bombing and frenzied posting for her debut novel!
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Jesus its dumber than I could ever imagine.
 
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Two Gorillion Dollars said:
It all appears to have come from one person's tweets on the subject. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it's another trad. author going on the attack.
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She's exactly like I expected.

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Nothing is ever good enough.
 
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JAYSUS, the drama is back. I'm consuming popcorn.

Now there are several KNOWN accelerants fuelling this fire:

  1. YA Book (of course)
  2. Debut author getting attention and cash so bitter people are SUPER JEALOUS and the sharks start circling
  3. Misguided attempt to whack in "diversity" (fun fact: these pile-ons are never directed at the all-white, all-Asian, all-African texts)
  4. A grovelling apology about harms and all the sensitivity reads they did to remedy the "harm"
  5. ???
  6. Profit

Rinse and repeat!
 
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LurkNoMore said:
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She's exactly like I expected.

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Fucking LMAO at this retard going by male pronouns yet claiming to be a lesbian. Ten dollars says its either one of them crossdressing men or a seething femcel that doesn't know what lesbian means besides it being a huge buzzword now.
 
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Cryptojew said:
This sounds incredibly dumb and shortsighted, since I'm pretty sure people who use TikTok don't have the attention span required to actually read books in the first place.
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For more on Social Media's over-weighting (at the moment) there's an interesting conversation a few pages back on publisher marketing efforts, (or maybe its deep in the Lindsay Ellis thread) and how they really concentrate on the social media Book Bloggers to push books now. Some of the Instagram set-ups are pretty, and YouTube still has in-depth reviews, but TikTock comes over as incredibly shallow. The only Twitter marketing that works is perhaps retweets from mutual friends liking a book, or similar authors that I like tweeting about a book they like.
 
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Der weiße Teufel said:
No clue what she did, but "authenticity reader"? Is that the new and cooler "sensitivity reader"? And who needs 4+ of them? If you are that scared of offending someone, just don't bother to write anything at all.

On a random (and Captain Obvious) note, I have been using Goodreads for 10 years to keep track of books and just browse to look for new and possibly interesting releases, but it's so very obvious these days that everything they promote has to fill some quota, everything is about minorities and everything seems to be written by women (or genderspecials). I just wanna read something good that has not been turned into bland word-oatmeal by "a group of diverse authenticity readers" or whatever and I have many favourite (old) white men authors, but those are clearly not allowed anymore.
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All this tells me is that her book will be genuinely awful.

I can't wait to bother boston brand in exactly 7 months for the sales numbers
 
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Shaka Brah said:
Cow crossover. This clementine chick is the one who inadvertently trolled Fatrick S. Tomlinson by uncritically believing an OnA Forums user who left his email in her anonymous comment box with a racist tirade.
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I knew she sounded familiar from somewhere. Either way, if she keeps having aneurysms she might be a good enough cow to get a thread on here. Don't stop now, cow! You're way too entertaining!
 
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Ben10 said:
On the topic of getting boys to read I've lately been wondering exactly what, exactly, they like to read. I've heard a few different perspectives on this: books about other boys their own age, books about men doing things, books about hot women.
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Call me late and gay, but I'll chime in that boys like adventure, and danger, and works that don't treat them with contempt. You can't go wrong with the classic adventure works by Stevenson, Verne, and Wells for example. More contemporary mil-fic and science fiction is also a big draw, Asimov is a bit on the cerebral side but no red blooded boy can turn away Heinlein or Bradbury. Above all, the works must treat their reader, and the readers POV character with respect. No boy wants to read about some other boy being bullied because he misgendered a tranny or getting groomed to sexually pleasure drag queens.

They want the Classic Masculine Hero's journey and as long as you give that to them they'll eat it up like free pizza. (Save the beer for dad.)
 
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LurkNoMore said:
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I’m genuinely surprised Monet’s profile doesn’t have pronouns in it. Also, someone needs to tell Clementine that it was stupid when Chris Chan called himself a male lesbian, and it’s still stupid when they call themselves a lesbian with masculine pronouns.
 
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I can see TikTok being a useful way of advertising your YouTube content, like a "here's my opinion in 30 seconds now go watch the full review" kinda thing, but on its own it's an awful platform for any of "discussion" even by the pathetically low standards of the internet. How can people actually use it as a source of information? I'm staring down the barrel of 30 at the moment so maybe I'm just about to reach the point where nothing makes sense anymore.
 
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Furina said:
I can see TikTok being a useful way of advertising your YouTube content, like a "here's my opinion in 30 seconds now go watch the full review" kinda thing, but on its own it's an awful platform for any of "discussion" even by the pathetically low standards of the internet. How can people actually use it as a source of information? I'm staring down the barrel of 30 at the moment so maybe I'm just about to reach the point where nothing makes sense anymore.
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Because it's not meant to be a place for a discussion. Marketing done on TikTok or Instagram is more like your old school advertising, a one-way communication. The more you treat it that way, the more successful your marketing on those two platforms will become
 
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