Oh no, it isn’t: The truth about litfic in 2024, by a 2024 Selfies Finalist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCcRG2QBb_k

This post was inspired by a massive, even tidal, response to a writer’s tale of woe on Facebook.

To shorten the literary author’s — very long — post: it’s a conspiracy. The evil publishers — who would undoubtedly reject Thomas Hardy, were he alive today — are meanly denying contracts to great writers. Literary agents couldn’t care less about fine writing, either. Readers are being force-fed books aimed at the unintelligent.

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Alice McVeigh: award-winning novelist

Novels by London-based Alice McVeigh have been published by Orion/Hachette, UK’s Unbound Publishing, and Warleigh Hall Press.