So a former/lit/ author recently published with a traditional publisher. I'm told it's generating a surprising amount of buzz. Would it be worth purchasing do you think?
>>24876957He had a story called No Adonis Has Come to Stay in a /lit/ magazine a few years ago, which a lot of anons seemed to like, though I never read it. Pic related.Haven't read his book either, and didn't know of any buzz.
>>24876957>a traditional publisherWhich one?
>>24877043Bonfire Books, Australian indie press est. 2019.
why won't unreal faggots die?
>>24877057>>24876957>Australianis he one of the lo-fi-hi-fats?
I bought this after seeing it shilled enough. It is incredibly good. Anti-lo-fi-high-lit-ala-DFW.
>>24876957I've heard good things about this. Might check it out.
>>24876957I will never read it because I'm jealous, petty, and spiteful. I have no shame in admitting this.
>>24877109Could you post photos of one of the stories?
>>24877057Wait, so are we now up to TWO /lit/ authors from Australia actually making it big in the for-real Australian literary scene?Should we all just move to Australia if we want to be published?
>>24877179If you're white we'd be glad to have you.
>>24877177This is from one of my favourite stories. If you're interested (and I know some people don't like them here) the book was recently reviewed by these guys. I actually got it on their recommendation they mentioned it a number of weeks ago.https://youtu.be/cBYbZVk3k0s?si=OakyER3nTGPNjHBA
I myself came to /lit/ after publishing my work.
>>24877057Huh... I'm Australian; I wonder if anyone would be interested in publishing an incest themed trag-comi prose-play hybrid...
Buy an ad
>>24876997>>24877255This is better than I would have ever expected.
>>24877255How do I write this well bros?
Wow it's even carried by big and independent stores here in the U.S. Pretty impressive. I hope no one ruins his career with allegations of racism etc.
>>24878219Don't believe there is any mention of race throughout
>>24877255Oh. I'm suddenly a lot less interested in this. It reads like pastiche.
>>24878350Can you be nice for a day or two?
>>24878350It is typical Lowfihifat prose
>>24878350Do you even know what that word means?
>>24876957>it's generating a surprising amount of buzz>Goodreads: 5 ratings 1 reviewoof
>>24876957From the thumbnail I thought that was broccoli. Tell me more about the broccoli.
>>24878911Not that guy but who uses good reads?
>>24878914It's a Gen Z dogwhistle
>>24878938People who generate buzz about books
>>24877255Not gonna watch that podcast but>only two pagescome on, don't hold out.
>>24876957I try to buy and read a few books every year that are written by users to this site. Now whether they're shilling them or other anons, I don't know.I think it's important to do a minimal amount of effort and support youngish male authors. In particular I read "Hardly Working" from this same press. I enjoyed it and would recommend to others.Everyone should throw a few ducats to support our fellow brothers. If you end up not liking it, so what donate it and try a different one.
>>24878914It is AI broccoli
>>24879162What's the best /lit/ book you've read?
>>24879212I've read Esketit, L'Academie, Hardly Working, 1200KM Walking (from Jay the Street Writer)...I have another 1 or 2 that I can't remember right now. Probably Hardly Working was the best of these. I might try the low-fi Australian guy who's always plugging his book.In fairness, I don't want to criticize b/c they may read here. I respect and admire their commitment to getting a book written (something I haven't done). As a complement, I would mention that most of them have good dialogue, and I think some of the frustrations of modern life are very relatable. I would encourage everyone to just buy a book from someone here or someone who isn't well known...doesn't even matter who.
Funny I think a new & is coming soon as well
>>24879162Based supportive anon. Hopefully you'll come across my book, I don't feel like openly shilling it right now
>>24877171Someone like you is the most important type of potential reader. You should check it out.
>>24877171The best readers are jealous dragons with their time.
>>24879302I definitely get it. I have failed to engage with any contemporary literature because I'm to busy, and probably will always be, with the classics.
>>24876957Is it as good as Woolston?
>>24879404There's something so pathetic about only ever reading things that other people have decided are good
>>24879429It's more like I read the sample of contemporary writers on Amazon and I can tell in an instant that it's not worth the money. I guess this >>24877255 does read much better than a lot of what I'm used to though.
>>24879420Apples and oranges
>>24879468>**the** sample of contemporary writersWhich sample is this???
>>24880515I mean like the Sample function on Amazon when you preview individual books. So far I'm not impressed by most.
>>24879234Based anon
Lewis Woolston here AMA
>>24881610Never heard of you, which book of yours should I check out first?
>>24881613The Everlasting. I've got an "overnight novel" in the works though.
>>24881610I always preferred your arvocore poetry to your lo-fi prose stuff. Will you ever return to it?
>>24881610when is the manifesto coming out?
>>24881762Kino
>>24881937On Substack
>>24876957honestly, i wish this publisher would use a different aesthetic style because this type of cover is associated with juvenile young adult fiction. this book would be an instant bestseller if not for the cover.
>>24881942I said that as well
>>24877255quality
I can't stand reading a book about someone talking about their parents or what they love or hate about them, especially in first person. There's something unbearably immature about it, unless of course they're describing things that happened to them or their parents without dumping their opinions.
>>24882435Didn't ask
>>24878938Many of us actually, but it's not that big of a deal
>>24882435retard doesn't understand the difference between first person and autofiction
>>24878911
>>24881943if you go the self publish route as least you control your own cover
>>24883739>5th (416,279th)
>>24883914what does BSR mean?
>>24876957Based Australians taking over the literary scene
>>24883739Wow, it's right up there with such huge hits as "Worst Boyfriend Ever by Worst Boyfriend Ever" and "An Odyssey Of Dingbats by Mr. Omar King!"
>>24884322>Worst Boyfriend Evertell me more about this title
>>24884327my diary desu
>>24877057>Australiadropped
>>24876957>I'm told it's generating a surprising amount of buzzlol
>>24883376Doesn't make it any less immature. Nobody wants to read about why you hate your parents like they are popular world figures to be emulated by everyone.
>>24883914Amazon Best Sellers Rank.
>>24884456>A Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man
>>24884456lots of books are about peoples parents
>op (the author) is probably 70 posts in this thread
>>24884029Whoops >>24884469
The cover is actually carefully designed to invoke The Children of the Corn. You can see the prominence of "corn" so that was no coincidence. I'm guessing this is a collection of rural horror stories? Satanic murderers on the farm? It's always scary going through farm country.
>>24885627name 50
>>24876957>>24885925The cover is actually carefully designed to invoke corn. You can see the prominence of "corn" so that was no coincidence. It's a collection of rural corn stories, or stories where the author, Jack "Corny" Norman, had corn on his mind. The original title of his debut /lit/ story was in fact "No Adonis Has Corn to Stay." A little known fact is that Australians love corn. Corn was invented in Australia. So much corn flows out of the Australian outback that it is distributed for free. No-one goes hungry there, thanks to corn. Australian corn is bred to have 777 kernels. Australian corn is the best corn in the world, and Jack Norman has tasted it---he is made of it. Google "corn" to learn more.
>>24877383Just trying to get one person to read you work huh.....
>>24886334kinda corny if you ask me
>>24886334If “country girls make do” isn’t the overarching theme of the book I’m not reading it
>>24886334I'll only check out your book if you take out an ad and outbid F. Gardner and/or the Casacadianon, Mr. Obviously the Author
>>24886630damn that is one erect ear of corn
>>24876957If this book is as good as they say it is, it's going to put Lewis Woolston out of business. This board and the market in general can absorb only so many Aussie writers.
>>24879242We’re not allowed to talk about that here
>>24886756Woolston mogs Norman anyday. search your heart and you will know it to be true
>>24876997Shit.>>24877255Utter shit.
>>24886334Have any of you had a good cornholin? Is it as amazing as they say it is? Askin for a friend. He's a fag.
>>24881610Tooky’s mentions this
>>24886942"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
>>24886334>Google "corn" to learn more.do NOT do this
>>24888189is it kind of like watching the ring video? i think you may have saved my life, anon
>>24876957I've written stuff on lit over the last decade, and my novel is with agents and a publisher right now. We'll see how it goes.
>>24878914>Tell me more about the broccoli.It is NOT broccoli. It is a club. And the hand is not just any hand. It's the hand of the Devil of the Corn.. The club is going to be used for "clubbing" his victim who is lying out hog-tied or lying down spread out somewhere between the corn stalks. By clubbing, yes, we do mean anal insertion (you can see that besides "-corn," "-an" is likewise prominent in the title--it is shorthand for "anal"). What follows is the most graphic and horrifying scene in horror fiction written to date, something that can only come out of the twisted mind of a Western Australian raised on a vegan diet. To read more, buy the book.
>buy the bookbuy an ad
>>24889067that rich cascadia bastard has taken up the entire allottment
whens the next Tales of the Unreal?
