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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SteveC" data-source="post: 9606689" data-attributes="member: 9053">I think this is a great point. I've been a fan of Larry's since I read the first sentence of his first book ("On one otherwise normal Tuesday evening I had the chance to live the American dream. I was able to throw my incompetent jackass of a boss from a fourteenth-story window.") I've been reading him ever since.Larry came into the industry as a self-published author, and even though he's been picked up and sells tons of books, he is very much on the outside of mainstream Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror publishing. The whole point of Sad Puppies, which was over 10 years ago, was to highlight these differences.In the case of the Hugo's, when I was reading the most (in the 80s, when I was in school and had the time) I read just about every book that was even nominated. I remember going to the library to pick up a list of Hugo Award winners so I could read past years. I typically have only heard of one or two of them now. And it's not like I'm just reading pulp, popular literature. I'm an English major, and I try to stay in touch with the book world, but what's awarded in the Hugo's is not what I'm interested in reading.And I feel it's important to say this: that's fine. I'm 100% not trying to yuck anyone's yums here. The problem I see is that new authors getting into writing have problems getting noticed. That's only one of many problems these days, where if you're writing a multi-book series, it's hard to get published or get traction because so many people expect the series to not get finished.I think, much like the Oscars, there has been an issue with what's awarded versus what's read or watched. And with publishing houses that are risk averse, that's a problem. Put that together with political issues where authors that get read find it hard to get into book stores, and this is a problem. It's a problem for me, I suppose. If you don't like Larry's books (or similar authors) I would not expect you to care. I do care because I want to see lots of books by lots of authors with different perspectives. Even if I'm not going to read a lot of them.</blockquote>

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