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!
Paul Elam-
“This whole process of publishing is quite complicated, actually. I mean it actually takes more that just hating women, I might have to do some actual work to achieve this………..Fuck!
If people want a good alternative to the 50 shades series, The Boss series by Abigail Barnette is amazing. Well written, awesome plot, kink done properly, all the rest.
@kaz
And her extensive analysis of 50 shades is hilarious as well as having taught me loads about how to write good. I’d suggest sending Pauly over but no one deserves that.
I do want to hate watch and mock 50 Shades with wine and friends. But a pirated copy. I would never pay for it.
I think it would make a great drinking game.
@weirwoodtreehugger
I love a good hate watch. The books are so toxic, though – if the films are anything like them it’ll be like hate watching fox news. You’ll never be able to get the stain off.
I don’t know if I could even hate-watch FSoG. My blood pressure is generally pretty good, and I don’t want to change that.
PoM, me neither. Being angry and bored to conniptions is not a good combination.
Dude, I’ve done that self publishing thing. It’s more complicated than walking and chewing gum at the same time, but it aint that complicated.
@freemage “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.”
I would have thought the middle-class fems would be supportive of this choice rather than go out of their way to mock these guys.
These are entitled males brought up under patriarchy after all, and proud misogynists too boot.
It’s so confusing for a dumb male to understand…on one hand admonish us for the psychological torture women endure every day having to share space with men (Schroedinger’s Rapist analogy), then laugh at the “worst examples” giving women what they apparently want (?)
leftwingfox said:
[blockquote]dRifted[/blockquote]
The most amusing ‘find and replace’ story I know in gaming was from one of TSR’s last products, before WotC bought them. They did a four volume collection of all the wizard spells they had published, and in at least one volume did a global ‘find and replace’ of ‘wizard’ for ‘mage’.
Which resulted in spells doing 1d6 points of ‘dawizard’ per level…
Anyone up for a round of “what sock is that?” Looks NWOslavish to me.
If a “dumb male” is too stupid to make sense of “not wanting to be harassed,” I’d humbly suggest he shouldn’t make analogies about quantum physics.
While it’s possible such an analogy would exist in both an insightful and a cloddish state, I’m afraid I’ve observed the “Schroedinger’s Rapist” analogy and it collapsed into the latter.
We have that women are an amorphous undifferentiated blob thingammy going on with this one. Does seem familiar, but it is so common it is hard to be sure.
What sock is this? We ask again,
Whose slimy rhetoric speweth?
For it does smell and scarce doth pretend,
The Troll, the sock, of this thread…
(Is it too late to keep messing up all the carols?)
Which trolls think feminists mean abolish sex when we talk about enthusiastic consent?
I don’t think so, no.
Hark the sock foot trolls do carol
Bla bla bla bla bla
Bla bla bla
Bla
Is too boot a modern version of Das Boot?
Awww, I always miss the trolls.
“Not wanting to be harassed,” includes discomfort at merely having to be in the same space, along with demands for men to cross to the other side of street or wait for the next lift etc.
I was almost accused of sexual harassment at work once: the “harassment” amounted to half a dozen awkward but non-threatening attempts at conversation over 6 months and a friend request. (Which, for some reason was accepted, with me quickly de-friending her when it become clear what was about to happen.) She was paranoid, had a problem with males, which she openly admitted, and benefited from a large network of supportive friends and sympathisers, a couple of whom were mutual friends that no longer speak to me.
“Which trolls think feminists mean abolish sex when we talk about enthusiastic consent?”
Those that take note when feminists suggest burden of proof be reversed in relation to sexual assault allegations, making all intercourse prosecutable as rape: http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/patriarchy-blaming-the-twisty-way/consent-or-the-legalization-of-womens-humanity/
Oh, not limited to radical feminist circles either – it was a policy proposal from the opposition in the lead up to last year’s New Zealand general election and defended by Labour Party justice spokesperson at the time.
Miss Andry! He’s back! Do you want him? Because I’m pretty confident nobody else does.
So, when you say almost accused of sexual harrassment, you mean not actually accused of sexual harrassment?
Oh honey. I’m sorry you almost had a bad experience with a woman once. You’re right, they must all be horrible, man-hating monsters, each and every last one of them.
You should go post your story on the #NotAllMen tag, where you’ll find the support and love you need to get through what must be a trying time.
Tomorrow’s most popular topic on Reddit – New Zealand bans sex!