Anybody know of an unbiased article that can explain to me what 20BooksTo50K is? I'd heard about it being a Facebook group. And I just read an article in The Federalist. But it's so full of opinion and jargon that if you don't already know what's going on (and I don't) you are left no more enlightened than you were before reading the article.
And the fact that they mention Frank Herbert and Robert Heinlein as authors who understood that what readers want out of sci-fi is escapism and fun makes me think the author doesn't know what he's talking about.
Is this related to the Sad/Rabid Puppies debacle? The phrasing of the article makes me suspect that it is.
Here's a link to the article I read. I'd appreciate anything clearer:
Indie Sci-Fi Authors Are Upending Traditional Publishing, And It’s Turned Into A War