Dear Jess-not-Jesse:
I usually try not to criticize other professional authors too loudly, unless they are successful enough that my disapprobation is unlikely to hurt their careers.
But, Jess-not-Jessie, you don't have an authorial career. There are no books penned by you for sale on the internet that either Grok or I can find.
Your self-description as a "writer of tough girls magical boys in liminal spaces" appears to be aspirational or stylistic rather than reflective of published output.
What you are is a freelance editor, gone solo after a layoff from a brief career at Folio, a literary agency. All of the projects listed on your website are those you worked on as part of a team at Folio, rather than as an individual.
None have over 500 Amazon ratings. The exact counts are, at this moment: 455, 153, 90, 69, 36, and 12.
I am unable to find any projects you worked on a freelancer, but I can only observe that whatever those projects are, you did not choose to highlight them in your sales pitch.
My conclusion is that, while you certainly do have an insider's perspective on tradpub as an industry, you are in no position to pontificate on who is and is not "good at writing", since there is zero evidence that you are "good at writing", and zero evidence that that you have helped anyone else become "good at writing".
I would therefore recommend that you avoid using the phrase "unearned sense of superiority".
Myself, I do not pretend to be on the experience level of
@Jringo1508 or a
@monsterhunter45, but I do know how to sell a book or two, so I can comment from what I have personally witnessed.
Yes, the tradpub industry, as a whole and in general, is heavily biased against White authors, male authors, and especially White male authors.
Publishers generally do not perform racial and sexual discrimination openly and directly. Instead, they outsource this discrimination to literary agents, who are extremely blatant about it. It is not only occasional, but typical, to see submission guidelines with sentences such as "only accepting manuscripts from Queer or BIPOC authors at this time".
Just to be crystal clear, "Queer" means "anything but heterosexual" and "BIPOC" means "anything but White".
This is not a secret conspiracy... it's a public conspiracy, being conducted openly in the noonday sun.
But, like many of the best narratives, this story has a twist, and it goes like this (spoiler warning):
Tradpub is absolutely biased against White male authors. But that bias is effectively HELPING White male authors, not hurting us.
Why?
Because to any new genre fiction author in 2026, tradpub is a liability, not an asset.
As a whole and in general, the traditional publishing industry has been triply hollowed out — first by spreadsheet management who do not understand the industry they are in, then by Amazon eating their breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and finally by leftist ideology that not only doesn't understand the free market, but actively hates it.
This is why the only books they know how to sell are ghost-written celebrity projects, and endless volumes of monster rape porn for fat sexually frustrated feminists.
When communist trustafarians who inhabit modern tradpub use the phrase "good writing", the word "good" means something different to them than it does to anyone without an MFA and/or daddy issues.
When we say "good", we mean enjoyable by a relatively audience of people willing to pay for books.
When they say "good", they mean written from a brown or gay perspective that they think is socially and politically important.
To be crystal clear, they not only have no idea what will sell, they actually don't care.
Each rejection from this bear trap protects White male authors from having our careers handled by incompetents who take most of our earnings in exchange for nothing in particular, and pushes us closer to that shining glorious moment where we realize we do not need them.
That our destiny belongs to us, and we can keep our earnings, keep our IP, and keep our dignity, all for the price of a little extra work, most of which we were going to have to do anyway.
So, dear Jess-not-Jesse, while you are in fact a liar, a midwit, a complete mediocrity, and probably some variety of communist, none of this upsets me in the least. I would like you, and the entire industry you were made redundant from, to keep doing and saying exactly what you are currently doing and saying.
And I will keep telling, and showing, new and aspiring authors how they can succeed without you.
