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As a freelance writer, screenwriter and novelist, I’m always seeking opportunities to pitch my work. I found Biz Pac Review as part of an online search of conservative publications, and I’ve been writing articles for them for over two years.
Last year, I completed two novels, one a dystopian novel titled: It Began With a Whisper, which will be on the market in November. I also wrote a historical fiction novel, 2 Diaries, about the Japanese atrocities committed in China in the 1930s and ’40s. I’m still looking for a publisher for this one.
As I did my due diligence to seek out American publishers or literary agents who could represent my work to publishers, I realized that my race was wrong, my gender was wrong, my sexual preferences were also wrong and the topics I was writing about were also wrong. Numerous publishers and agents made it clear that straight, white male authors need not apply. Some said outright that they only published work by authors of certain races or lifestyles.
I was surprised to see a large number of publishers that only published LGBTQ… books and stories. Here are a few of the listings of publications that I found regarding the content they were seeking (and there were many, many more):
Cleis Press has a major influence in the realm of sexuality-focused publishing in the United States. It’s an independent publishing house specializing only in LGBTQ+, BDSM, romance, and erotic literature.
Bella Books is the largest lesbian-owned press focusing on publishing fiction for and about women-loving women across various genres like young adult romance, mystery, and science fiction. Committed to anti-racism and diversity, Bella aims to amplify the voices of lesbian, queer, bisexual, and gender non-conforming authors.
RedBone Press specializes in publishing literature that celebrates the cultures of black lesbians and gay men, aiming to bridge understanding within the broader black community.
Blind Eye Books is a publishing house focused on releasing high-quality science fiction, fantasy, mystery, and romance novels that feature LGBTQ protagonists.
Carnation Books is an independent publisher with a focus on uplifting fanfiction authors who write LGBTQIA+ characters and stories.
Ylva Publishing is the home of lesbian fiction and fiction about women-loving-women, and not surprisingly given the context, they only publish women.
Tiny Ghost Press is a small press that focuses on publishing YA fiction that centers LGBTQIA+ characters. This means that in their own words, they want “YOUNG ADULT novels, written from a QUEER perspective, That is, stories featuring a queer protagonist or from a queer author.
Deep Hearts YA is a new publisher of fiction for young adults. They focus on publishing LBGTQ+ stories, in all genres and sub-genres…
Bold Strokes Books publishes only LGBTQ books.
JMS Books is a small electronic press that focuses on publishing LGBTQ+ erotic romance, romance, and young adult romance.
Rebel Satori Press is a LBGTQ+ press was founded in 2002. They have many imprints and two open calls for submissions from now through the 31st of October. One of their open calls is for submissions of book-length nonfiction about witchcraft and the occult, and is open to all authors although “LGBTQIA+ voices are particularly encouraged to submit”. The other call is only open to LGBTQ+ authors, for their new speculative fiction imprint, “queer space.”
I believe strongly in supply and demand, and it appears that there must be a strong demand for these kind of books, however, I also believe that the irony of these publishers citing “diversity” in so many of their posts, but clearly only wanting gay and trans writers to submit materials to them.
In a recent Supreme Court Case, Mahmoud v. Taylor, the Supreme Court ruled, 6-3, that parents had the right to opt out of of exposing their children to LGBTQ themed stories or lessons. The decision came in response to a lawsuit brought by religious parents who objected to LGBTQ-themed books being read in pre-K through 5th grade classrooms. Is it censorship for parents to object to literature with sexual themes, whether gay or straight to be taught to their children? I don’t think so, yet, unlike other stories that children can read, the LGBTQ+ have to be tied to sexual themes because the category L(esbian) G(ay), B(isexual), T(rans), Q(ueer) are all about sexual preferences.
Some people view this decision as censorship. I don’t. It is the equivalent of a movie rating system. If a parent opts to allow their child to watch an R-rated or adult film, that is the parent’s option, however, when a school curriculum involves sexually graphic materials to young children under the guise of promoting “tolerance” and “diversity” it is crossing a line.
I teach literature and have lived through the era of wiping out white male authors from school curriculum. Shakespeare, George Orwell, Mark Twain, Arthur Miller and many great white, male writers have been under attack by DEI-obsessed school bureaucrats who judge a book by the face of the person on the back cover instead of the content of character development in the stories that are shared with children.
As the rejections piled up, and I was about to give up my search for a publisher for my novel, I found a thread on Matt Walsh’s Facebook page and I wrote a little about my struggles as a straight, white male author and I was contacted by a woman from Australia who was forming a Christian publisher and she asked to read my manuscript. I sent it to her, and she liked it. My story has no sex in it, nothing about sexual preferences and a character who is living in a place called Thawtless, where the law of the land is that thinking is against the law. The core of the story is about the value of thinking. Yet, this story was bypassed by so many publishers so they could publish books like Gender Queer: A memoir, All Boys Aren’t Blue, This Book is Gay, Two Boys Kissing, Flamer and numerous others that have explicit sexual references.
As a writer, I’ve always believed that the power of words was the most important aspect of an article, a novel or a quotation. In a world where identity politics dictates publishing and the ideas expressed are ignored or even censored, it is readers who are the big losers.
My publisher is currently taking pre-orders for It Began With a Whisper. If you want to read it, the delivery date will be November 8, and here is the Amazon link.
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