The Business: The SF Writer's Association Is Irrelevant Trash

The Leading Hispanic Voice in Science Fiction, Jon del Arroz, cut a video exposing another paper tiger of OldPub.

The big tell is how they manipulate their own rules to execute Friend/Enemy distinctions and act accordingly. They confess to Jon that they gladly let in people who don't meet the criteria, and expell those that do, purely on being faithful Death Cultists or enemies. That means that this organization has been converged for a long time, because this was the state of SWFA when it violated its own bi-laws to punt Vox Day- an expulsion that Vox rejects as illegitimate to this day accordingly.

This means that the organization is wholly about the Death Cult, and not at all about Muh Fandom or Muh Sci-Fi, and the performance of its members in the marketplace shows this to be true--I've sold more than them--so what this is really about is using the organization to exercise Narrative Warfare campaigns against enemies of the Cult.

What does this tell you?

That you don't need this organization. Furthermore, that this group is your enemy; if you are not One of Them, you are their enemy and they will be hostile to you- their writers, their agents, their editors, their publishers, their press whores, etc. are all going to roll out and array against you on command.

And if they weren't pathetic, they'd be more powerful than they really are--and far closer to what they want you to believe they are--but as it stands you can (and should) shrug them off and focus instead on a bigger issue: the need to diverse from Amazon (which I need to do too).