One thing I've noticed is that most RW media outlets don't actually care about RW media that they themselves are not directly connected with or producing. There's little to no coverage, journalistic or otherwise, of the broader field.
Our local rag covered our reprinting of the Cosmic Courtship and the other works of Julian Hawthorne, but I don't think any other major outlet reached out or responded to our solicits.
arkansasonline.com/news/2021/may/…
We made news when we found and republished a previously believed lost Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan fragment, completed by one of our regular contributors.

We're at a point where RW culture media outlets should be keeping tabs on what we're up to, even just an eye, but they don't.
In the first few years, yeah, as an unknown and unproven entity, begging hat-in-hand for any sort of coverage makes sense, but after a decade and a proven track record, it's more that RW culture/media journalists are incurious and prefer outrage bait anyway.
I know it comes across as being bitter, but it's more that I'm flabbergasted that RW c/m journos don't care/are unaware of a publisher who:
>was a Hugo Finalist
>published a lost Tarzan story
>published near-lost works of Julian Hawthorne
>has stayed in business for 10+ years
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So, something I've talked about in the past is the continual downward pressure on the market value of written fiction and the limited things we've done to do our part in combatting it...
There is a TON of written fiction out there, and the body of written fiction is growing at an unfathomable rate as new authors continue to add to it.
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One of Cirsova's goals was always to "regress harder." Not in the "we're not woke" sense, but people on the right always wanted to retvrn but to yesterday, when things were only a little less bad. Cirsova emerged as a reaction to the Sad Puppies and Brad Torgersen's Nutty Nuggets
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