Two (Three?) more SJW-SFF authors are getting #MeToo'd real time. This is glorious.
First,
Sam Sykes:
I made it about forty pages into Sykes' book before giving up in visceral pain. The irony being every woman was brave and powerful and didn't need no man. One scene was an older woman grabbing a bartender, a young man, and threatening to beat him up. I hope women don't read this crap and think it translates to reality. They would be in for a rude awakening.
Second,
Mark Lawrence:
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I love the last one. Schwab has 126K twitter followers ALONE and she's afraid her tweets will come to Lawrence's attention because .... somebody asked him politely about the allegations. Literally shaking RN, or something.
Lawrence is one of the best authors of adult Fantasy publishing today. He works tirelessly to promote self-published authors via the contest he sponsors. The first book in the Book of the Ancestor series was fantastic, the second quite good until the silly ending. Haven't gotten around to the third yet. Former engineer who worked (I believe on a contract basis) for NASA.
VE Schwab is yet another YA writing white chick with disposable plots, disposable characters and is otherwise as fungible as a lima bean in comparison to all the other white chick YA authors. So brave and powerful! I know I read her first book about an alternate history/multiple timeline London, but I'll be damned if I remember anything about it beyond that.
I have no idea who
Myke Cole is, have never read anything he's written, but he's apparently involved somehow and is also in trouble with the Twitter mob. They tried and failed to cancel him in 2018, are things different in 2020?
https://mykecole.com/when-you-make-a-mistake-you-have-to-own-it/ (TBF, the SJWs saying this "apology" is stupid are in fact correct. It uses a great many words and says nothing.)
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I think the conclusion is that if you're a male author with a set of testicles (i.e. not Chuck Wendig or John Scalzi):
- Don't go to conventions, ever
- Don't joke with women, ever
- Don't write women with actual personalities
- Whenever a woman accuses a man immediately join the lynch mob, since women don't lie and men are always guilty
Can't wait to see who gets it next. Lawrence is probably fine, Skyes may be in deep shit and I have no idea about Cole.