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Fantasy Author Goes Viral Lambasting Bookstores: "It's All Chick Lit And BookTok Slop"

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Mar 22, 2025
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Recently, more male readers have noticed that sci-fi and fantasy, traditionally male-dominated categories, are not producing books geared toward men at all. Fantasy Author John A. Douglas went viral on X, showing how dire the situation is in bookstores.

Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, women took over the publishing industry. It was easy for them to…

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