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My first ARC review.

"much plot, very characters, wow"
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ShinyStar said:
Please tell me that Pegasus Publications is a vanity press that is charging him all the printing costs and not a legitimate publisher! That introduction is awful...
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There's some good discussion on that over in his own thread starting here:
BrunoMattei said:
The first sentence made me cringe. I then looked up the publisher and it's these numbnuts:
Pegasus Elliot MacKenzie Publishers https://pegasuspublishers.com/

I thought it was a LuLu imprint and it was part of a scheme to self-publish but claim that you're published by an actual publisher.

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Big white nationalist Twitter account plots a right-wing takeover over YA, asks his followers to write novels that are anti-nerd & pro-quarterback. He admonishes his followers to not write characters like Hermione, but to instead just focus on making the girlfriend as hot as possible.

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He also has an idea on who the villain should be: the nerd. Not a fan of magic or superpowers, this Twitter account wants only this villain nerd to have access to either, thereby associating the use of Magic or superpowers as a cheat code for the envious.

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The tweet went viral all over the artistic side of right-wing X, mostly being shared by the BAP people. But there were few takers. Most of the comments are disagreeing with him. Osp weighed in himself with: "It`s kinda depressing that there so much quotes looking at this generic 80s romcom plot and going "YES, this is exactly what we need to save the white race""

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JJLiautaud said:
your book is also--not to put too fine a point on it--fucking gay as hell, in the literal sense.
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It is, but it hit like 4 out of 5 of the points he mentioned. It's kind of uncanny how many of the shit he wrote in that thread were core tenants of what I wanted the story to be when I started drafting.
I wanted to PM him on twatter but he has DMs turned off so I had to e-mail him like a boomer. I'm kinda nervous cause of how radioactive twitter politics tends to b, although it's not the first time I've interacted with the "right"-side of xitter.
 
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Morethanabitfoolish said:
A mate's offspring is nearing highschool age and so far has still not been sold on Discworld so we were nattering about possible YA options for her since she's enjoyed the Potter stuff. As ever I chucked Tamora Pierce's name onto the list alongside Lord of the Rings (Hobbit's for primary school age) but was wondering if there's some actual good stuff out there for a teenage girl hitting the YA fiction but is still not quite at weightier books.

From the looks of this thread the field has only grown worse but curious if there's any actual good ones out there or at bare minimum ones to avoid like mad.
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How about the Tomorrow when the war began series?
 
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Amusing meme from the thread.
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This meme is spot on. It seems every other week, some big conservative account bemoans the lack of RW art. Half of the replies are always indie authors who point to their self-published books. Does the big account boost them be retweeting or reviewing their work? Nope! They just pretend these people don't exist, and two months later make the same complaint.

Just look at all the quote tweets & replies to Last Things. I lost track of all the RW artists linking to their material. How many of them did Last Things repost? Zero.
 
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