The publishing world has gone completely insane.
That in itself is probably not news. But I came across a ‘wishlist’ from an agent in New York that was even more bizarre than I was expecting.
She asks that authors do not send ‘Books with eating disorders, unchallenged fatphobia, or unchallenged diet culture’, or stories that feature the police or military.
Instead she wants ‘fat main characters’, and requires that the ‘love interest seems morally gray but is actually a marshmallow with heart of gold underneath the hard shell exterior.’
These deranged and highly specific criteria, which amount to a form of censorship, are merely an extreme version of the ideological capture we now see throughout publishing, which is one of the main reasons for the decline of literature.
Watch my video on all this below. It is a mixture of appalling and funny, as the above examples merely scratch the surface.
Cheers,
Nick
I'm not surprised you were laughing so much during this one Nick, it's utterly bizarre isn't it?
Purely from a commercial point of view, this has got to be hugely self-defeating for a publisher.
I’m guessing American Psycho is out.