This book is dogshit. Complaining about the mediocrity of the art establishment is something; but if you do, don't be even more mediocre than them. Just name drops imageboard and memes for nothing, the style is annoying. Could've been worse, it's just a bit more mediocre than the lib art culture it makes fun of throughout the whole book
>>24716404So there are two 2025 novels called Femoid? Cute.
>>24716404Post tits or gtfo
>>24716470Just a hairy chest there anon
>>24716483Post tits with a timestamp or gtfo
>>24716451It's the same one. It was first released under a pseudonym and then withdrawn when the publisher found out it was actually written by a Woman of Color.
>>24716577… *wasN'T actually written…
>>24716404I see I've been summoned. To be fair, it was my first novel, and I bit off quite a bit with the project by making it poly-stylistic and such. Having, for example, Savoy's personal writing style (in the form of texts, poetry, etc.) grow over the course of the novel was one thing, but then I also had to juggle seven or eight other contingents within the narrative at the same time. Maybe the constant self-revisionary/ADHD style is a bit much in spots, but I went with it in the spirit of accuracy, because the style of person it was based on very much sounds like Savoy and operates in a similar way. I'll stand by it. (It's unfortunate the authors who endorsed "Femoid" before have backed out because of the controversy, though.) >This book is dogshit"Dogshit" might be a bit heavy-handed, but then again, the subtlety of the discourse on /lit/ is a far cry from what it used to be back in 2014 and such, when I started coming on here. For my latest novel, I went with a much sparer style, with a somewhat similar lead, to remove the chaff and focus more on plot (pic rel). Maybe give that a shot. You can find it on the McBussy website. It's endorsed by Woolston. You might like it more. All the same, as trash as contemporary lit is a lot of the time, it's odd that anons on here don't support other anons trying to advance their writing careers. It's a shame, really. I'd like to see more of us succeed. Thanks for reading, m8.
>>24716875>I've been summonedNice larp, timestamp + face faggot>I'm not gonna because I have nothing to prove to youYeah larping faggot just like I thought
>>24716875>endorsed by Woolstonlol I don't think anyone here has read him or knows of him outside of his shilling or lo-fi prose sagaPost PDFs of both if you genuinely want anons to read them. And let me add that doing the identity rugpull with a full novel was a really dumb idea; a rec from Gabriel Smith made me interested, but your whole stunt brings all prior interest in your work into question; i.e. what's that endorsement mean if your whole point with the false identity was to say people would endorse trash if it was by a broke black queer (even if I don't necessarily think this will apply to Gabriel Smith).You really fucked yourself by mixing serious work into that, and I don't think getting accepted into obviously bottom-tier magazines for idpol is at all notable; if you got into a big mag with nonsense poems it'd be an entirely different story, but there are a million little magazines who will publish trash of any sort. Now look at who your publisher is, and how the angle for him is likely foremost to piggyback on your notoriety; i.e. he took your book because he would take anything so long as it fit his image, same as any of the dogshit online mags you duped.Again, just post the PDFs. Or EPUBs, if you wanna be nice.
Buy an ad faggot
>>24716875I really didn't think you'd read my comment, and that fast. I'm terribly ashamed and apologize profusely.The footnotes were cool. Trying to innovate on each chapter, adding chats, having to manage different characters through their online writing styles is cool. I particularly liked the CC threads, reminds me of myself anonymously posting about a relationship on a forum. I think I spoke a bit hastily about your novel anyway, because I thought my comment would be like a stone tossed in the ocean. Will delete it.I'll definitely check out your other novel.
>>24717153>This book is dogshit.>I'm terribly ashamed and apologize profusely.You're a faggot, anon.
>>24716875>McBussyI love this nigga like you wouldn't believe
>>24716946>Post PDFsI'd post PDFs, 'cause I don't particularly care about money/royalties, but I'd have to run that by a few people first. >You really fucked yourself by mixing serious work into thatIt had to go the way it had to go. I could have very easily held onto the Marcie pen name and ridden that one for a while, but I mostly just wanted to move past that phase of my life. Didn't want to carry forward the personal connections that came with that pen name, in particular. Pen names can be used for all sorts of different things, and in this case, I pushed it in both directions at once. Some would say it was a bad move to confess like I did, but I did so knowing what the ramifications would generally be. Lots more went on behind the scenes leading up to it all that hasn't been covered in interviews yet. I largely haven't be clearing up rumours either, which has made things even wilder at times. >If you got into a big mag with nonsense poems it'd be an entirely different storyWait for Phase 2, brother. I've told this to some of the outlets that have interviewed me since my story broke, but the main reason why I didn't bother with Granta, Poetry, etc., was because of the wait times (as well as the agent influence, with solicitation and so forth sometimes taking spots from regular writers). I had over 50 pieces that needed homes, and waiting 6-9 months at a time wasn't exactly an enticing prospect. Even shotgunning 5-10 of the pieces to the top mags and waiting would've been a complete nuisance. The project would've taken five years instead of two if I'd done it that way. Plus, Poetry, to their credit, at least has editors who would check things like background filler text (I would hope, anyway), so it's not as if I think all mags are so shitty they can't catch junky material when it comes their way. In the next phase, I'll be subbing to the big mags, under slightly different parameters. It's gonna take a while, though. Hold tight. Keen to write some "serious" poetry, too.>>24717153You are forgiven.>>24717605Max is great.
>>24716875wait, are you the one that was asking honor for a blurb and you briefly shilled and your thread got nuked like right away? i was trying to rememer the name of that book. and the author name which was weird.
>>24716404>White also claimed that Barry “couldn’t even write” and that he’d agreed to edit the book “under the assumption that [the author] was like the character in the book: an uneducated black woman from Vancouver. So, I was trying to help her write this book, right? And wasted three months of my life.”lol
>>24717750Pathetic attempt at damage control.
>>24717687>Some would say it was a bad move to confess like I did, but I did so knowing what the ramifications would generally be.You're missing my point, which is that by attaching this novel to that penname you effectively wrote it off as unserious work; you made it part of a prank. Again, any praise you received for it under those pretenses is now invalidated because of your own claim that said work only saw "success" on account of your assumed identity. That's a huge fuck up. Your claim wasn't that success is only possible if you're the right kind of minority, it was that dogshit work would be praised over idpol, and now your novel is framed---by you---as dogshit.It'd be different if you tried using that notoriety to then publish your novel under your real name from the start. I don't think it would help much, but it at least wouldn't taint it as a farce.>I'll be subbing to the big mags, under slightly different parametersIf you really cared to make a point you would have suffered the wait from the start. You now have a name for writing shitty meaningless poetry, and for trying to dupe people with it. And (supposing your next prank succeeds) if you claim a big mag only accepted your work because of an assumed identity, then the reveal shows what? That your work sucked but got published because of idpol? That your work was good and you could have just published under your real identity from the start?There will only be a small fraction of people who will think your work was both good and only succeeded due to idpol; they'd have to simultaneously believe both that the big magazines have high standards and that they're exclusionary. The only other positive spin you could put on it is that you're capable of authentically emulating another identity, but who in that small fraction I outlined above will give a shit?>I'd have to run that by a few people first. Man, you're being published by a guy who goes by McBussy. Just post them if you're going to keep coming here to talk them up.
>>24717782>>Man, you're being published by a guy who goes by McBussyMcBussy is an honorable 4chan poster. You don't get to talk shit about him, redditor.
