A renowned maker of threats
Gretchen Felker-Martin is on the job again.
A renowned transgender horror author who signed a letter last week condemning The New York Times’s coverage of trans issues has tweeted that
she wants to slit J.K. Rowling‘s throat.Gretchen Felker-Martin named a series of writers
she accused of transphobia – including Rowling – in a tweet sent on February 12.She added: ‘If they all had one throat, man.’…
Another writer
she railed against, journalist Jesse Singal, condemned Felker-Martin for making the death threat, and saidshe has a long history of making threats of violence.In Felker-Martin’s debut novel, Manhunt, published in February 2022, Rowling is murdered by being burned alive.
That’s how we know how progressive this movement is – publicly fantasizing about torturing people to death.
Well, they do seem to live in the mirror world, where men who rape women, children, and babies are extremely vulnerable, so are safe to be housed in women’s prisons; and JKR saying something like “Live your best life” is actually saying “I want to slit your throats”; so when they say “I want to slit your throats” they obviously mean “Live your best life”.
Right?
Oh, I remember Manhunt. O wrote about it here. Kiwi Farms had a long chapter-by-chapter summary, with plenty of quotes from the novel itself. In a fit of masochism, I read the whole thing.
It was hilariously awful. The man can’t write at all. Funny thinking of him being taken at all seriously, by anyone.
Tigger, ha!
I don’t mean to downplay the awfulness of his tweet. Taking him seriously as a writer–as a literary figure and signatory to a letter to the NYT–is what’s hilarious.
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So, LM, I wonder how it got published. Was it a vanity press, pay-to-publish monstrosity? An online only book?
Mike, it was published by Tor; they’re pretty respectable. But my guess is they figured it would go over well with the youthful Queer demographic (it did).
I went a-digging… Apparently it’s published by Tor Nightfire, an adult-horror subsidiary of Tor, in turn under Macmillan: https://us.macmillan.com/publishers/tom-doherty-associates/
Here are their (Tor Nightfire) submission guidelines, where they highlight “We are actively looking for submissions from writers from underrepresented populations. This includes, but is not limited to, writers of any race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, class, and physical or mental ability”, so it seems it checked all their favoured boxes:
https://tornightfire.com/nightfire-slush-submission-guidelines/
Once again, sex is blatantly omitted.
So a white fundamentalist protestant male would be welcomed with open arms? The blurb said “any”.
“It was hilariously awful. The man can’t write at all. Funny thinking of him being taken at all seriously, by anyone.”
Roxane Gay praised “Manhunt” on her Goodreads page.
“Gretchen Felker-Martin’s Manhunt is sublime horror–gory, impeccably written, a condemnation and a celebration with a cast of incredibly flawed, deeply interesting characters….By far the best book I’ve read this year. You should read it and share it with all your friends and enemies.
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5127224759
Roxane Gay. Truly the Stupid Person’s Idea of a Clever Person.