Book News for the 24th week of 2025, June 9th-June 15th
(books)June 9thSFWA's New Executive Director Is An Identity Politics Activist Who's Built A Career Off Government Grants And Corporate CharityIsis Asare has been named the new director as a consequence, and her biography shows much more of the same attitudes that got SFWA here, to begin with, coupled with a lot of credentialism that means very little in terms of actually selling books or moving the needle for authors.
FULL STORYStar Trek: Deep Space 9 Novel #4 The Big Game ReviewIt features a poker tournament on Deep Space Nine where a player is killed, raising the stakes.
FULL STORYQuantity killsQuantity always affects quality – it’s so obvious when you think about it; yet we continue to act as though if something is good, more of it will be better.
FULL STORYRHETORIC 08Enthymemes and Syllogisms
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June 10thA Literary Agent Told Fantasy Author Blake Carpenter His Book Was Cast Aside "To Make Room For #OwnVoices," And He Left Mainstream Publishing Behind...another victim of anti-white male discrimination in the publishing industry ... told point blank by a literary agent they didn’t want his fantasy work because of his identity.
FULL STORYCall for Authors: Summer 2025 Based Book SaleThe next Based Book Sale starts Wednesday, June 18, 2025, 12:00 AM PDT and ends Wednesday, June 25, 2025, 12:00 AM PDT.
FULL STORYPeter J. Tomasi Joins Chorus Of Fans To Call For Marvel Masterworks Line To Continue After Cancelation Announcement.Marvel Masterworks represents one of the comic industry's most successful preservation efforts, serving as Marvel's flagship line of premium hardcover collections that have kept classic comics in print for over five decades.
FULL STORYRHETORIC 09The Three Divisions of Rhetoric
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June 11thRHETORIC 10The Five Types of Political Oratory
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June 12thUncanny X-Men Writer Gail Simone Boasts About Feminist Term "Fridging" Being Added To The Dictionary.Gail Simone rose to prominence in the comics industry through her incisive feminist critique during this time, most notably with the 1999 launch of the website Women in Refrigerators, which she co-founded.
FULL STORYRHETORIC 11Happiness and Its Constituents
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June 13thFantasy Author Threatens To Sue Reader Over Posting Screenshots Of Her AI Prompts She Accidentally Left In Her BookThere’s been a massive uptick in instances of authors getting savaged over leaving AI prompts in their books, revealing that they’d been using generative AI to write the text.
FULL STORYSci-Fi Writer John Scalzi Admits Social Media Site BlueSky Is Failing Because The Left Are "Humorless Scolds".As it’s being reported the company is failing because it’s an echo chamber, Scalzi has admitted the left are “humorless scolds.”
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June 14thYouTuber OfficialNerdCubed Exposes How Unbound Publishing Never Paid Him Thousands Owed From His Crowdfunded Book SuccessAs detailed in our previous coverage, Unbound Publishing collapsed into administration earlier this year, with the new company Boundless buying the assets for a mere £50,000 while conveniently avoiding the financial obligations to authors.
FULL STORYEXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Science Fiction Legend John C. Wright Talks His New Starquest KickstarterWith Starquest, Wright is now launching a Kickstarter to cover the cost of art for the next four volumes, as well as copy editing on the books, to polish them.
FULL STORYRHETORIC 12Excellence, Beauty, and Luck
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June 15thRHETORIC 13Goodness and Utility
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