For decades, scammy "book doctors" and vanity presses spun a tale about how Big Publishing was too conservative and risk-averse for really really adventurous books, and the only way to get your visionary work published was to pay them to fill your garage with badly printed books that you'd spend the rest of your life trying to get other people to read:
@pluralistic
I've got that first edition cover and I didn't notice it at first, and then I was "Wait..." Read it back in 2019
Found the second book as an ebook a couple of years ago and since have read the rest of them. Second and third books are amazing. (First and fourth books are also good, but didn't blow me away quite as much.)
Am now at #Readercon32 after a negative COVID test! (A Lucira NAAT.)
This weekend I am especially looking forward to chatting with other #Readercon participants who enjoy #Steerswoman, or who love the works of @zencho or @naomikritzer or @rebeccafraimow. I am also on the board of the Otherwise (formerly Tiptree) Award and happy to talk about that! https://otherwiseaward.org/