I got out of their slush pile, so thats something. I've taken the manuscript and really polished and worked it and looking for other people to submit toobut god damn, EVERY publisher"Only accepting black voices""Looking for TRANS LGBT Fiction""Celebrating marginalized voices"Who are guys like Baen, they were probably my best shot, and they liked it, so I think I got something hereDoesn't need to be huge, just needs to be something that slightly MIGHT make a few books, I don't even need to quit my job, just someone who could possibly get my shit in front of people
>>25352354Aethon Books might be good, they do genre fiction. I submitted to them, they didn't accept it but they at least looked at it
>>25352542Never heard back from them on my manuscript, personally.>>25352354Maybe Ark Press? So far they mostly only seem interested in publishing already-known authors though. Ironically as publishing has gotten more libtarded it's gotten way more functionally conservative, i.e. "we're only going to publish tentpole authors, formulaic shit, and viral tiktok authors we just signed"It's fucking bleak. I'm writing my fourth novel now with no publishing prospects in sight. The key is to be too autistic about your work to give up. If one project doesn't sell, write another. It sucks but the grind helps dull the frustration of rejection.
>>25352354>but god damn, EVERY publisherSerious question but how do they stay in business that way? Is there really that much of a market for this dreck? Because fiction is a notoriously low-margin business. Romantsy for women I get because they spend money, and I'm not trying to make some kind of ideological argument, I'm not even a rightoid and I prefer Baen. Just give me some spaceships nuking each other, please. Are they just bamboozling woke non-profit organizations that hand out grants or something? Part of their grant is they have to publish X number of trans black voices? Just a thought.
>>25352354Their forums are based. It'll be a sad day if and when they decide to shut it down.
