How often has this happened to you? You’re reading a thoughtful blog post or comment from a Men’s Rights Activist and you find yourself thinking:
“Gosh! This post or comment on how women are a bunch of malevolent parasites/men are the real slaves if you think about it/women were never oppressed because they could just get maids to clean the house is so witty and wise. I only wish it were 50 times longer, and that I had to pay money to read it!”
Well, I’ve got good news for you: Now you can!
A Voice for Men, having already given the voiceless male gender a way to express itself online, has now launched A Publishing House for Men to give them a way to express themselves in book form!
Well, e-book form.
A Voice for Men’s new publishing house has just published its first book – well, e-book — a slim volume of thoughts on Men Going Their Own Way, written by Peter Wright of Gynocentrism.com with help from AVFM’s Paul Elam, using some material already published online!
Well, technically speaking, this is a relaunch. AVFM Press originally launched last October with the publication of this same book. But Elam decided to call a do-over. No, really.
On October 25th, you see, a bulletin on AVFM proclaimed that AVFM Press was publishing Go Your Own Way: Understanding MGTOW — an e-book it predicted would be but “the first of what will surely become a lengthy series of ebooks (and some hardcovers as well). … let’s get AVFM Press on the map as the iconic source for true red pill appetites.” (A source for appetites? I thought the source for appetites was an empty stomach?)
One day later, Elam announced that he was recalling the e-book.
What I have discovered … is that there were several procedural, legal, and formatting errors that should have been addressed before launching the book.
I made a whole bushel of lemons, folks, and the fault for that lies squarely on me.
But I do make some pretty good lemonade, which I am in the midst of doing as we speak.
I have pulled the book from Amazon Kindle for the time being, and I am removing purchase links from every place they now exist.
After the deficiencies with the product have been corrected, it will be re-launched at a level of quality that AVFM readers deserve, which is the very best possible. All the other issues will be corrected as well.
Please accept my apologies for the mistakes. This whole process of publishing is quite complicated, actually.
It is, Paul, it is.
Happily, Elam announced, the eager customers who’d hurried to buy a copy of the defective book on its first day of publication would be given a copy of the corrected book when it came out. All twelve of them.
That last bit isn’t a joke; according to Elam himself, there were literally twelve of them – less than half the number of those on AVFM’s masthead.
Elam also decided to call a do-over on AVFM Press itself – or at least its name — declaring that
AVFM Press is actually a working title for our publishing arm and will likely change very soon.
But now all the details have been sorted out, right? Well, mostly.
Yesterday’s big announcement on the launch – the real launch, this time – of AVFM’s new publishing house did not actually provide a name for the venture. At least not one that I could find. On Amazon, the publisher of the revised edition of Go Your Own Way is still listed as AVFM Press.
But never mind, because the book is getting rave reviews on Amazon!
For example, a woman named Suzy McCarley declares that the book “was worth the wait!”
Ok, so McCarley is an AVFM staffer who’s given 5-star reviews to everything she’s reviewed — from self–published books by manosphere blogger Aaron Clarey to Avalon Extra Moisturizing Fragrance Free Conditioner. But not all of the rave reviews are written by AVFM staffers under their own names. For example, a fellow calling himself xtime Past gushes:
There is great content for Men and Women of all ages. Most of red pill are apprehensive in reading this book since Paul Elam is a part of the MHRA arm of the manosphere. The read is great for MGTOW to better understand going their own way.
So I would like to congratulate AVFM’s Possibly Still Unnamed Publishing House for Men Who Don’t Write Good for getting off to such a strong start, at least if you ignore that first start that didn’t go so well.
During AVFM’s last donation drive, Elam declared that:
This year will see AVFM go into commercial ventures that will fund even more activism. I cannot go into any details at this point, but rest assured it is coming, and as with most everything else we have set out to do, we are going to pull it off. This track will ease the pressure on some of our larger donors who have always seen us through donation drives.
AVFM’s Possibly Still Unnamed Publishing House for Men Who Don’t Write Good is the first of these new money-making ventures. Because as everyone knows, a vanity publishing house that so seriously fucks up its first e-book launch that it has to do it over again two months later is pretty much guaranteed to be a massive cash-generating machine.
It kind of needs to be, as AVFM’s last donation drive (which just ended) didn’t do quite as well as Elam had hoped, at least according to this little thermometer graphic posted on AVFM.
I can only assume that authors will be rushing to sign up with AVFM’s Possibly Still Unnamed Publishing House for Men Who Don’t Write Good, so that AVFM’s Possibly Still Unnamed Publishing House for Men Who Don’t Write Good can put its name (which may be changed) on their ebooks – and take a share of the profits, if any, hopefully without introducing too many formatting errors in the process.
No, I can’t see how this could possibly go wrong.
Kudos, Paul!
I wonder if *this* is where Milo will publish his book?
There really is no end to the ways he can find to fleece money out of the poor dumbasses who support him, is there?
Also, “Go Your Own Way: Understanding MGTOW ” is quite possibly the worst title I’ve ever encountered. That’s some “Mount Doom” level ran out of ideas shit right there.
Vanity press much, AVFM?
Yanno, I suspected that the conference chicanery might possibly strip the veil from the eyes of some of the rubes. The latest fund raiser result appears to confirm that he did himself more harm than good.
If they’re just putting books up on Amazon for Kindle, why do authors need to go through them again? Authors are capable of self-publishing their own stuff on Amazon without giving another cut to a separate publisher, vanity or otherwise.
Yes, but AVFM’s Possibly Still Unnamed Publishing House for Men Who Don’t Write Good can release the PR wonder that is JB on your behalf!
Yeeesssss … I can see where someone might want to pay AFVM a portion of the $30 in profits they are going to make from their e-book for that service.
Given AVFM’s penchant for asshole copyright infringement (and profiting off same), I fully expect to see AVFM’s Possibly Still Unnamed Publishing House for Men Who Don’t Write Good stealing a bunch of bestsellers, changing the character names to avoid lawsuits, and putting them up for sale on Amazon. Get yer discounted knockoff copy of the Da Vinci Code here!
Well, they couldn’t do any less activism.
Will AVFM’s Possibly Still Unnamed Publishing House for Men Who Don’t Write Good agree to publish JB’s novel?
Because I would love to lay eyes on that hot mess.
I’m happy to see that the new book still has the erect road sign on its cover. They did that on purpose, right?
It seems that Elam assumed his superior white maleness meant he was just inherently capable of starting a publishing house. No education or experience required. Not so much.
How do you need a manual to understand going your own way? If you don’t want to marry and procreate, you don’t. It’s not that complex. It’s almost like the whole thing is a thinly veiled excuse to hate women and obsess about us endlessly!
“Even more activism”
LOL.
Shut up Woody.
WWTH,
I still don’t get how not marrying and having kids needs a special name. It’s only the hating women part that sets MGTOWs apart from other single people who don’t have kids. Also, isn’t choosing marriage and kids still an individual’s “own way” as it is a personal choice?
@weirwoodtreehugger:
Well, the book is basically just a collection of posts from AVFM in book form, so I wouldn’t be surprised if 90% of the content was just how terrible women are. Actually, I’m pretty sure their definition of MGTOW is mostly “men who are aware of just how terrible women are.”
I hope they have a gentle lead into the main premise of the book, though. Starting with guns blazing is going to drive away any potential mainstream readers (ironically giving them an accurate introduction to MGTOWs), and the only people who are going to enjoy the book are die-hard readers of AVFM already.
Which explains why they decided they needed to make a publishing outfit to sell an e-book through Amazon in the first place. It’s basically just one more way Elam can part his readers from their money, with the added bonus of not having to generate new material.
Legal errors? In trying to wrap my head around this one, I’ve come up with two possibilities: Either he stole parts of it or he advocated domestic abuse/rape/paedophilia in it. Knowing Paul Aptronym, it was probably both.
Pauly sure isn’t short-up for cash.
According to what I understand, MGTOW is supposed to entail more than just no-wife-no-kids, for which the term “lifelong bachelor” exists. Some of them seem to think it means no women in any kind of romantic context? Other times it seems to mean classifying women as not-really-human-beings, and therefore being freed from the obligation to treat them decently, which isn’t a big leap for a lot of these dudes.
To me, the quintessence of a MGTOW is a gay man, but gay men are capable of being decent to women so the guys calling themselves MGTOW don’t seem to embrace that concept at all.
What, you mean there’s more to publishing than slapping your name on a manuscript and taking 10%?
Who knew?
This actually reminds me of one of the worst-published works I ever paid money for. RPG geeks might know the Palladium game “Rifts”. Well, they tried to publish a spinoff novel. The editor decided that since Rifts was the title of the IP, it needed to be capitalized. So they did a mass find-and-replace.
It’s bad enough when everyone talks about the “dimensional Rifts” that gives the game it’s name, but the author also used the word “drifted” multiple times, all of which were published as “dRifted”. The mistake was so egregious, that I honestly thought they had introduced a new slang term for teleportation.
athenahollow
Nah. Elam already cut ties with the #GamerGoobers because they were getting more attention than him, and he got pissy about it.
Essentially, one of the #Goobers twitted that #Shirtgate was what #Gamergate was all about, and Elam about had an aneurysm because he’d been “fighting” that particular cause for way longer than these guys! How dare they try to steal his misogyny spotlight!
Though it wouldn’t surprise me if he did try to publish the book anyways, because money.
Well, the claim is that the MGTOWs are seeking a lifestyle that literally eliminates all women from their view–in pretty much the same way that the KKK and others of their ilk would like to indulge in a lifestyle where they don’t have to encounter any person of color during their activities.
So, in theory, their workplaces should have no women (so they don’t have to ‘fear’ being accused of sexual harassment); they should be able to walk around, shop, vacation, etc, all without encountering women at all. Since, for the straight men amongst them (seemingly the majority), this would entail the complete end of sexual activity other than masturbation, a good part of their ‘advice’ seems to be built around trying to convince themselves that they don’t actually want sex at all. Supplant “sour grapes” with “[deliberately disgusting description of a vagina]” and you’re pretty much there.
Since the world they want is impossible, and would result in not actually even hoping to have sex, they instead try to wall off parts of life as men-only spaces, usually by claiming that those spaces have always been male-exclusive, despite any factual record to the contrary. A few of the more… enterprising MGTOWs will actually try to create new male-exclusive spaces, like the Manbook founder that was discussed a few threads ago. This goes about as well as you’d expect it to.
Every so often I get MGTOW commenters on my blog, assuring me that not only are men going their own way, but that the movement is only minutes – minutes! – away from going mainstream.
But, alas, those men keep hanging around, not going their own way at all.
@bodycrimes:
But how will you miss them if they don’t keep reminding you that they aren’t there?
I guess they’d also advertise your book on the AVFM sidebar.
For the most glorious find-and-replace fuckup in history, see this:
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Cdesign_proponentsists
Coming soon: Fifty Shades of Rape Apologia.
I love the name, I would make it slightly longer by changing it to this:
AVFM’s Possibly Still Unnamed Publishing House for Men Who Don’t Read or Write Good
I’m assuming the nod was to Zoolander.