Tuesday, October 10, 2017

30 Publishers Reject Novel For Being 'Too Gay' For Mass Market, So Crowdfunding Comes To Rescue

"[Matt] Cain, the editor of Attitude magazine [a popular gay-male-oriented title in Britain], said the support for his book - which is on course to be the fastest-funded novel on [crowdfunding platform] Unbound - showed there was a market for a commercial novel about a gay man, even though publishers rejected it as 'too working class, too 80s, too immersed in pop culture, and too gay'."



Article source here:Arts Journal

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