85 Authors protest BBC’s treatment of genre fiction

[Who's Wee Dug]

Interesting article from BFS website, by some world famous Authors. 8)

http://s256537080.websitehome.co.uk/index.php

 

[WannabeAngua]

There was a LOT of names I didn't recognice in that article

I can understand their frustration, must be a let down to be ignored by the BBC like that, especially as the books they write are sold in large numbers and enjoyed by the public.

 

[raisindot]

Methinks there are a lot of crabby genre writers out there with wayyy too much time on their hands.

 

[Anonymous]

Oh dear gods, don't tell me britain is actually starting to treat fantasy as -worthless genre-
We had that bit here a while ago when the current german publisher of the Discworld novels declared 'Pratchett isn't fantasy, it's social-critical satire and should be treated as such- (Translate that to -we are trying to save money so we say it#s not fantasy which enables us to do the translations with an online translator and the new covers via free clipart in a free graphic prog-)