The Absolute Degeneracy of Modern Writing
What's happening with "women's literature"? How has romantasy taken over the publishing industry? How did we get here? And what does it mean? My book recommendation list! This is also an affiliate link. https://bookshop.org/shop/hilarylayne (this is a link to my Bookshop storefront, where, if you'd like, you can purchase excellent books while also dropping Otto and me a few coins of support and thumbing your nose at Amazon) My website: https://www.hilarylayne.com/ 0:00 - Intro 2:37 - The Truth about "Women's Lit" 7:03 - Why Romantasy Is So Huge 13:07 - Countering the Defenses 22:45 - Do Women Dominate the Industry? 24:50 - Does Sex Dominate the Industry? 36:27 - What to do?

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