[EFFORTPOST] Rightoid author dunks on Publishers Weekly when a book of his they shat on gets nominated for the Dragon Award

So, who is Tom Kratman?

Well, I'll let this rDrama post speak for itself.

Basically, he's a prolific rightoid author whose works are published by Baen Books.

One of his books called "Dirty Water" received a rather disparaging review by Publishers Weekly. Seemingly, almost exclusively due to the author's politics.

Now, Dragon Awards is a relatively recent Sci-fi/fantasy award created by DragonCon. While the Con itself is ancient, the award was only established in 2016, which is pretty recent compared to most other Sci-fi/fantasy awards.

However, when the award was first announced, the (in)famous creator of the Sad Puppies campaign Larry Correia presented it as a great replacement for the much-maligned Hugo Award, which he and his fellow Puppies considered to be an award completely run by a bunch of elitist libtard kitties who were deciding the winner based on their politics rather than the quality of their work. Correia and his Puppies tried to overtake this award with mixed success (Fun Fact: the first Sad Puppies campaign was organized in 2013, predating G*merGate for a year, so they actually shat on SJWs before G*merGate). This, however, is not a post about Sad Puppies, so back on topic: you see, Dragon Awards are both nominated and awarded by a popular vote and anyone can participate, completely for free, whereas Hugo Awards can only be nominated by paid WorldCon members and only a select group of judges can decide the winner, which they don't actually have to do and can simply vote "No Award". Needless to say, the Dragon Award voting system appealed greatly to Correia and his Puppies, and that is why, to this day, a few rightoid authors get nominated for the award every year.

This year, as luck would have it, Tom Kratman was one of those lucky rightoid authors who got nominated, and the book he was nominated for is, you guessed it, Dirty Water.

He decided to celebrate the award nomination on Twitter:

Yeah, so Dirty Water was nominated for a Dragon Award in Alternate History. Yeah, ordinarily I scorn awards. But in this case there is a certain prominent magazine that published a hit-piece review of Dirty Water, and I'd really like to hammer the award up their collective butt before giving it to Toni Weisskopf to put on the Baen awards shelf. Register to vote here: Dragon Con 2024 - Fan Awards Signup Form

A known sci-fi/fantasy rightoid shit-stirrer Jon Del Arroz obviously jumped onto this drama like a fly to shit and asked for an exclusive statement:

Can you DM me and give me the scoop on the drama here so I can report on it?

To which Mr. Kratman replied:

Messaged. It appears to me that the review is likely from a particularly perverse and psychotic who goes by the name "Athene." Not sure...but the tenor is very similar.

This tweet alone makes him worthy of the award in my opinion.

Mr. Del Arroz later released a video on the drama which you can see here.

And here is also the Fandom Pulse article that Mr. Del Arroz referenced in his video.

Dragon Award nominees are listed here.

If you wish to register to vote for the award, you can do so here.

Under no circumstances should you vote for Mr. Kratman just to cause drama and make some reviewer angry. That would be absolutely unacceptable and could even make some sensitive people really upset, so I better not catch you doing it chuds.

By the way, Sad Puppies were proven to be more or less correct about the Hugo Award when it was discovered that in 2023, the WorldCon judges refused to award the books that they thought would anger the Chinese government since the 2023 WorldCon was being held in China.