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Here's another depressing article about publishing. Some of it isn't about SFF, and the tone is pretty tongue in cheek, but the stuff about fantasy strikes me as bleak. No doubt thinking this makes me a snob or some other form of bigot, but I find it sad that the genre of Tolkien, Le Guin and Peake could end up as, y'know, porn. Hopefully things will improve.
My weeks of reading hornily: steamy book sales have doubled – and I soon found out why
From fairy porn to romantasy via the Omegaverse, publishing is sexier than ever. The reason? A big shift in gen Z and millennial attitudes to respectability and shame ...
www.theguardian.com