Cat Fitzpatrick

@catfitzpatrick.net

all work and no play makes cat a dull girl Typesetter & Editrix @littlepuss.net // Author of The Call-Out & THE DINNER PARTY: A BOOK ABOUT LOVE - OUT NOW

Started reading a non-fic book by a trans woman autho published in 2017 & she cites several other authors who were active in that era and then I realized that almost none of these girlies except for me are still writing publicly and also some of them are dead & then I s p i r a l e d

The exception is: romance. Romance sales numbers are not permitted to measure importance. When multiauthor romance box sets started to dominate the NYT bestseller list in the early ebook era, they *changed the rules of the list* to exclude them. Sales are what romance gets *instead* of importance.