@RyanF I just want to say thanks again for engaging with my essays in such detail it's hugely appreciated. You've got some fantastic points and I thought I'd respond to them point by point.
I'd also point out - both to yourself and others who have rightly questioned where and why and how it...
I mean, not to belabor the point but several of these organisations were quite literally founded by A Bloke:
According to the Crime Writer's Association page:
And for the SWFA:
And indeed if we focus again on the CWA then it was actually founded with the explicit intention to help authors...
I'll come to others comments a bit later when I have more time, but I would take a moment to highlight - as seen in the article itself - almost every other genre has managed to achieve this apparently impossible goal as you've described. The Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA) for example...
well to add to what @Time Enough has said, fortunately there's an entire article laying out my thoughts on the subject, which in turn begins by linking to two other articles that raise their author's concerns about the state of the genre - so my recommendation would be to start there
however as...
I'd like to thank everyone for their comments so far, and thank particularly @David Flin for taking my insomniac ramblings and deftly editing them into something readable, along with some fantastic illustrations.
The source of this new series was about six weeks ago, when a particularly bad...
Thanks Thande, I think this was one of my favorite stories to write, and I have notes somewhere for a sequel/expansion to either short story length or maybe novelette length - exploring a 21st Century Nazi Hollywood sort of thing
yeah this sounds like that really interesting-sounding AH novel that @Meadow got a copy of, but it turned out to be incredibly difficult to read
I think it was about a Soviet Britain or something
I had the honour of beta reading A Bright, Cold Day by @MAC161 and am extremely happy to finally see it released to the public. Incredibly good book I need to review soon