Kudos to Jim Hines, and let's please support this
Jim Hines writes about Wicked Pretty Things, and extends
"an offer to any author who pulled his or her story from one of Telep’s projects as a result of this incident:If you have not already found a home for your withdrawn story, I would be happy to read it.
If you have not already found a home for your withdrawn story, I would be happy to read it.If I like the story (and knowing most of the authors involved, I suspect I will), I’ll offer $100 up front to publish it here on my blog.Each story will include a donations link. Once the initial $100 has been covered, further donations will be split 50/50. Half will be paid to the author, and the other half will be donated to a LGBTQ-friendly cause.If I publish multiple stories, I will look into putting together an e-book collection of those stories, with profits again being split between the authors and a LGBTQ-friendly cause."The Wicked Pretty Things incident is obviously of great interest to me as a queer, LGBTQ ally, and publisher/editor of a LGBTQ-friendly market .
It pained me to see that Running Press, which reiterated again and again that they are LGBTQ-friendly, has moved on sans the LGBTQ story but still with Telep still as editor - while the brave authors who pulled their stories to support LGBTQ issues have gotten the short end of the stick. Jim Hines' initiative is going to help with this situation. If you can and are so inclined, please consider supporting this project.
I am writing a LGBTQ YA novel right now, and - regardless of whether it is sellable or not - I feel there is a robust market for queer YA. The readers certainly are not complaining. Not everybody would want to read queer YA, to be sure, but not everybody would want to read Twilight either.
Diversity is good for the field. Bigotry is not.
"an offer to any author who pulled his or her story from one of Telep’s projects as a result of this incident:If you have not already found a home for your withdrawn story, I would be happy to read it.
If you have not already found a home for your withdrawn story, I would be happy to read it.If I like the story (and knowing most of the authors involved, I suspect I will), I’ll offer $100 up front to publish it here on my blog.Each story will include a donations link. Once the initial $100 has been covered, further donations will be split 50/50. Half will be paid to the author, and the other half will be donated to a LGBTQ-friendly cause.If I publish multiple stories, I will look into putting together an e-book collection of those stories, with profits again being split between the authors and a LGBTQ-friendly cause."The Wicked Pretty Things incident is obviously of great interest to me as a queer, LGBTQ ally, and publisher/editor of a LGBTQ-friendly market .
It pained me to see that Running Press, which reiterated again and again that they are LGBTQ-friendly, has moved on sans the LGBTQ story but still with Telep still as editor - while the brave authors who pulled their stories to support LGBTQ issues have gotten the short end of the stick. Jim Hines' initiative is going to help with this situation. If you can and are so inclined, please consider supporting this project.
I am writing a LGBTQ YA novel right now, and - regardless of whether it is sellable or not - I feel there is a robust market for queer YA. The readers certainly are not complaining. Not everybody would want to read queer YA, to be sure, but not everybody would want to read Twilight either.
Diversity is good for the field. Bigotry is not.
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