Jack is hamming it up for the camera

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I had about a dozen conversations with attendees and authors who said they don’t think they’ll come back because of these reasons. I hope LYBF will take this feedback in the spirit in which it’s given: constructively and with hope for the future. This wasn’t a great event but I believe it can be. 💙

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Fifth: multiple gay men (myself included, TWICE) had attendees assume we were straight male counterparts of women attending the event. I’m not angry at the people who did this, but LYBF could do more from a leadership prescriptive to communicate how to have an inclusive space.

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I was told that some organizers seemed to pay more attention to the “famous” trad pub authors and only interacted with the more indie-focused authors when they had long signing lines. Every author at an event like this deserves equal dignity and respect, not just the “big names”.

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This was a BIG miss and there was some hurt feelings among indie (and hybrid indie/trad) authors who felt a disdain and a weird hierarchy with the traditionally published authors. It left a bad taste in my mouth.

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