It Came From the Inbox Ep.3 - Mucho Correia, Double the Books, and our NEW column, ANTIFRAGILE!
Plus, we give a hate submission some exposure because we're awesome like that.
Well, it’s a wild one for this video. An extra-value sized edition featuring double the number of indie submission box entries that range from flintlock fantasy to bizarre anthologies featuring lounge-dwelling nekos. We also give some love to an author who dared us to review her book.
AND! Keep your eyes peeled for the first ever edition of our new column ANTIFRAGILE: Tales of the Unstoppable, in which figures who have made it through the cancel culture gauntlet give advice to creatives on how to handle the situations they faced. Naturally there was only one person I’d hoped to have kick off the initial edition: Nick Cole, whose Soda Pop Soldier sequel Ctrl+Alt+Revolt! got him dropped from his publisher for refusing to remove a single negative reference to abortion. The book would go on to win a Dragon Award in 2016 and pave the way towards building the fanbase he enjoys today for such loved series as Galaxy’s Edge, American Wasteland and WYRD.
ANTIFRAGILE will look to offer real-world advice any creative can use to withstand cancel culture or just plain surviving in the indies. Look for it June 11, a day after we review Nick’s infamous Ctrl+Alt+Revolt!
I am very much looking forward to the ANTIFRAGILE column! My husband and I both are definitely not, um, mainstream, and we know that as his book list grows and we build an audience, he's going to run afoul of cancel culture eventually. We'll appreciate tips on how to handle that!
If it took a Dragon Award, it was no earlier than 2019; that was the first year they did them, and Brad Torgersen gave me a copy of "Star-Wheeled Sky" unasked-for on my way to Afghanistan. That book was the *first* Dragon Award winner for SF.