The link you posted to the article in io9 resonated.
Rated perspective: I have seen (and include myself in) the growing movement of the fully fed up who have left traditional gatekept media behind to form our own independently produced publishing houses. Recently read an article (sorry- on phone now, cannot link) regarding how this movement had been a boon for writers and graphic novelists (writer artists) who are marketing to the English media market but who are not male and/or cishet and/or white. Taking control by making our own presses and distribution channels. While I find mass media horror/para/SFF and big publisher genre horror/para/SFF fiction depressing as all fuck, I have been seeing so much vibrancy and (lol, for my tastes) damn good stuff coming out of the micro presses I have been networking with at cons.
Not sure how any of this will pan out with big awards like the Hugo... There is a divide regarding whether it is worth ones while to fight against conservation-based elements in the main stream.
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Rated perspective: I have seen (and include myself in) the growing movement of the fully fed up who have left traditional gatekept media behind to form our own independently produced publishing houses. Recently read an article (sorry- on phone now, cannot link) regarding how this movement had been a boon for writers and graphic novelists (writer artists) who are marketing to the English media market but who are not male and/or cishet and/or white. Taking control by making our own presses and distribution channels. While I find mass media horror/para/SFF and big publisher genre horror/para/SFF fiction depressing as all fuck, I have been seeing so much vibrancy and (lol, for my tastes) damn good stuff coming out of the micro presses I have been networking with at cons.
Not sure how any of this will pan out with big awards like the Hugo... There is a divide regarding whether it is worth ones while to fight against conservation-based elements in the main stream.