3.4: News: Cozy Fantasy Is Finally HERE

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Hugo Awards’ scandal continues + What are the BookTok-ers angry about today?

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Note: there is some cursing in this episode. Sometimes the chosen one has to nope out of an adventure with some strong language. And we support that.

Listener Feedback: Luna tackles Hugo

We spoke about the controversy around the Hugo Awards a few months ago. The back and forth hasn’t stopped, but our friend Luna took a deep dive and helped us out. So the Hugo Awards organizers seem to have pre-emptively excluded creators that they thought would not go over well at an awards ceremony in China… and forgotten that the rest of the world might have a problem with that? Whew, what a cluster.

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Also, how are you feeling about the Hugo Awards now? Let us know!

Diving into the news today:

• Follow Publisher’s Weekly’s “This Week in Libraries” newsletter: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/edition/libraries.html

• A Wired writer is big mad at “Fanbinders” for making a profit on other people’s work: https://www.wired.com/story/pull-to-publish-fanfic-senlinyu-manacled-fanbinding/

• From TikTok, this situation feels the same, but legally it’s extremely different: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLJLgBkP/

• We talked about ARCs in Season 2: https://youtu.be/T_UFw1qwsVc

• Cozy fantasy gets some mainstream love: https://reactormag.com/coming-to-terms-with-cozy-fiction/

• Love T. Kingfisher? So do we! See some of her books on our recent reads list: https://bookshop.org/lists/what-we-re-reading-20648183-3934-47b4-aebd-e8457216d11f *

Celebrating marginalized peoples in publishing means we are all in on celebrating Ada Limon’s amazing achievement in being named one of Time’s Women of the Year for 2024. But also one of her poems is going to space!

Read with us!

• Mark of the Fool by J.M. Clarke is a cozy fantasy adventure that centers around a hero who has had quite enough of this, thank you. It isn’t available on Bookshop.org, but you can find it at your favorite store through Goodreads.

• Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur tore Annie’s heart out and then healed it back together. Now, you. *

• Annie’s also reading Mass Effect: The Complete Comics, because we’ve gotta keep it high and low out here. *

* Disclaimer: if you make a purchase from one of our affiliate links, we may earn a commission. But more importantly, Bookshop donates to small independent bookstores with every purchase. It has raised over $32 million to date!

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