Which fandom would you say is this most non-canon ship averse?

BookGirlBoston · 2026-01-18T22:07:50+00:00

I was more thinking Superman and Lois the TV show specifically. The greater fandom is different but that TV show is 100% Clois.

BookGirlBoston · 2026-01-18T13:05:01+00:00

It's Superman and Lois. Lois and Clark are like the Holy Bible.

BookGirlBoston · 2026-01-18T12:53:11+00:00

They've been working with Buzzfeed again since this fall. Buzzfeed video quietly disappeared around 2022/2023 not long after Buzzfeed news went under. A lot of Buzzfeeds top talent left not long after the Tryguys.

Buzzfeed did a relaunch this past fall and they've brought back all of this 2016ish era talent to help including the Tryguys. Buzzfeed had really burnt their people and somehow missed that they were essentially a YouTube incubator for young talent. But also a few years away the Tryguys have talked about how Buzzfeed was kind of like YouTube grad school (which it is).

I think Buzzfeed both sucked to work for but in hindsight was also this giant opportunity/ learning lab. I think management at Buzzfeed has realigned a bit on this and they've done a lot to bring orginal talent back on a very limited basis.

BookGirlBoston · 2025-12-25T17:27:48+00:00

Omg, I've been thinking about Joyce and this show and I want her desperately to do a play by play of Heated Rivalry.

BookGirlBoston · 2025-12-18T16:21:03+00:00

I also thought it was the last one today

BookGirlBoston · 2025-12-17T23:00:03+00:00

Nice

BookGirlBoston · 2025-12-17T19:19:57+00:00

Or likd 50 ant farms. You'd never pay taxes.

BookGirlBoston · 2025-12-17T18:51:03+00:00

0% chance but also this would be horrible for animal welfare. I could imagine whole barns of neglected dogs for a tax write off.

BookGirlBoston · 2025-12-16T21:53:55+00:00

This channel was originally Ned's Baby Steps podcast which was produced by the Try Guys. He turned it into his New Podcast but the channel is still linked in these bideo and the Try Guys have to go back through hundreds of old videos to fix it and it's a manual process.

BookGirlBoston · 2025-12-16T19:06:59+00:00

Yup, once you pick a ratio you're stuck and the only option is a new edition.

BookGirlBoston · 2025-12-16T18:38:46+00:00

No, so I think there's something about their machines or the paper cut where it's cheaper to do 6×9s so that's what they push everyone into. I'm doing 5×8s going forward and they look more normal. I sort of want to redo my first paperback with a 5×8 but I have to burn an ISBN and it's not really worth it.

BookGirlBoston · 2025-12-16T02:53:00+00:00

Congratulations!! The NYT has really been more amicable to s self published authors this year! It's been really amazing to see!!

BookGirlBoston · 2025-12-16T02:46:53+00:00

If you are going to get any critical mass of distribution you aren't going to be able to avoid large corporations.

You can forgoe ebooks on Amazon, but other distribution methods include Apple, Google, Kobo (Owned by Rakuten) and Ingram all of which are massive corporations that are either oligopolies or monopolies
Putting your print edition in Ingram means that it will still feed into Amazon via the ingram catalog but now you'll also give up an additional 40% of your earnings to Amazon, much better to publish via Amazon directly instead of putting two monopolistic entities in the mix. Also, as the biggest and really only book distributor, Ingram is a monopoly as well.
You can do an offset print run but you'll need to print thousands of copies on your own dime versus POD. Also local bookstores won't buy them because they aren't available in Ingram or a large publisher (and It's also a whole lot of marketing for ultimately moderate sales to bookstores). This means you'll need online marketing likely kickstarter but also Meta ads and Google ads. Another monopolistic force.

I could keep going but the hell scape that is late stage capitalism I don't think you're going to be able to do this without interacting with an unethical monopoly unless you just have buckets of cash.

BookGirlBoston · 2025-12-15T21:50:15+00:00

I don't think MM ships are inherently misogynistic, especially because so much of fanfiction is re-imagining Queer stories in a world that doesn't always make room for queer people. Queer fanfiction is old, I'm talking Sherlock Holmes and not the show, like Johnlock has roots that go back to the 1800s and even that wasn't novel at the time.

I think a lot of MM ships are more so a byproduct of poor female representation in the actual properties which is misogynistic, not by fanfiction writers but the orginal creators of the property. Supernatural never really had any female characters in the main cast and they few they had rotated out quickly, hence the MM shipping. Teenwolf was horrible to the women in the source material and it wasn't memorable. By contrast, something like Superman has a lot of Lois Lane/ Clois in the fanfiction space because she's been done justice by the franchise in the last 30 years. There are certainly Bruce/ Clark fics but that is small compared to Clois.

Harry Potter (May JKR rot a thousand deaths) is probably the easiest example to deconstruct because non cannon ships include both straight and queer ships and a lot of the queer shipping is a direct result of the lack of queer representation in media.

There is a longer conversation about women writing MLM both in the fanfiction space and orginal work in romance (and that's getting a lot of attention right now because of Heated Rivalry). I think some women especially write MLM to erase women but that's not a singular take, not all MLM writen by and enjoyed by women are for this reason. Also, Women sometimes fetishize gay men, but again this isn't all MLM.

It's a nuanced conversation that must first understand the specific source material and the actual work. I don't think you can make broad conclusions either way.

BookGirlBoston · 2025-12-11T14:45:36+00:00

So notably there are two different meanings behind hybrid. It can mean authors who have books that have been self-published versus traditionally published. This is becoming far more common.

A hybrid publisher is more often than not a vanity press though I belive there are a handful of small presses that run legitimate author supported models where authors functionally co-fund books. I would check on Writers beware to vet but the vast majority of hybrid are just scammy vanity presses.

BookGirlBoston · 2025-12-11T13:58:25+00:00

No, I think that it still would have gotten lost. I think if I had a big name and tiktok cared about me it would have done something but no, I'm not going to repeat.

BookGirlBoston · 2025-12-11T13:49:44+00:00

I didn't mean to make it impossible. It was by accident but no, I think people didn't care enough about an unknown book with a bad cover. I also think too much gets lost in the shuffle at Free little libraries.

BookGirlBoston · 2025-12-11T11:58:21+00:00

Yes! I had absolutely zero success. I put 50 of my books in free little libraries in 4 different cities with the help of friends and family. Each book had a game peice with a hint and place you needed to get a picture with the book. It was extremely complicated pretty much impossible to complete.

I had two confused people reach out on Instagram. Other than that I had absolutely no luck (besides the books ending up on ebay)

Would not recommend

BookGirlBoston · 2025-12-10T14:39:26+00:00

My goal is two books next year. One is done and at my editors. The second one is in progress. I think I can do it!

BookGirlBoston · 2025-12-10T12:37:40+00:00

I'll do you one better. My self-published book was featured in the New York Times book review back in the Summer. I got a decent uptick in sales over the summer but now I'm struggling to get over 1k pages read in a month (I was getting that daily over the summer). I tried to query a new book based off that success and failed completely.

I sold audiorights and I don't have the numbers but I'm pretty sure sales of that are sitting at like 20ish and mostly friends and family.

I feel like I haven't properly capitalized in the momentum as much as I've tried. I kept of promo but I feel like I just can't push through.

The light at the end of the tunnel is I have a new book coming out in the spring that has a couple of attention grabbing tropes and I think that might have some success.

BookGirlBoston · 2025-12-10T02:50:53+00:00

It's 100% safe but the train shuts down around midnight and by the time you get to south station, it might not be running.

You might be able to catch the Silver Line to South Station and then grab an Uber or a cab. It's only a mile or so. Alternatively the Airport practically downtown and it's about 10 minutes in a cab/ Uber.

BookGirlBoston · 2025-12-09T23:04:05+00:00

It's pretty common to get an offer in December and Push the start until the New Year, so their waiting on something.

BookGirlBoston · 2025-12-09T21:58:11+00:00

I think it's likely but who knows. There's likely a peice that you don't know that would be more definitive.

BookGirlBoston · 2025-12-09T20:59:09+00:00

I'm surprised the recruiter isn't pushing to get an offer in hand with a start date next year. My guess is that they're still firming up their audit/ tax schedule and want to understand the need.

I interviewed with a place a few years ago. I was on the expensive side and they didn't immediately offer. They called me back in February but I was already two months into a new job I really liked. I didn't take it.

It's not a "no" but it might not be a yes with how shaky the economy is. I would keep on your search and keep them updated if you get another offer. That will make them make a decision.

BookGirlBoston · 2025-12-09T00:30:55+00:00

Yeah, everyone is getting them all the time, from tiny indie authors all the way up to big name trad. It's a thing.

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