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Yeah. As a sci-fi author, I have strong opinions about this. Made an authortube video on the topic: https://youtu.be/THVpdcgTYrQ But tl;dr: Gatekeepers in big/mainstream publishing…

The who cares era is just a symptom of the unaccountability machinery of our era. It's hard to care or be passionate when you are certain that anything you produce which is worthwh…

...Or just ignore AI and use your human creativity to write an amazing story. Something that is NOT a stale echo of another story. Something that adds to a global conversation/deba…

I have a 6 book contract with Podium, my debut was in the top 100 books of 2023 by Kirkus, and I am nowhere near quitting my day job. I've paid attention to the publishing industry…

I love rational fiction. Yes to Methods of Rationality, Mother of Learning, and also Paranoid Mage and a few others, including Majority by Abby Goldsmith.

Yes.

Ha ha, that was pretty good.

100%. I see a lot of originality in web serials and fiction by indie authors. I've more or less stopped reading books that were curated by the Big Five publishing houses.

The cons of thinking in public: - Everyone judges you. - Everyone can snap to a potentially wrong assumption about you or your motives. - The conversation can shift to a meta discu…

Hahaha! This one does!

Codex https://forums.codexwriters.com/ is very actively moderated. There are interesting quality discussions there.

There is Codex. https://forums.codexwriters.com/ It's for SFF writers, and it skews towards trad pub. There are (easy to meet) membership requirements: You need to have earned some…

The indie author gold rush was basically 2012 through now. It's still in full swing. But much like the California Gold Rush, it's beyond a saturation point. There are all kinds of …

Don't listen to idiots. But do listen to the people who sincerely tried and failed. Few people want to talk about failure. But I've been watching the publishing industry for a long…

Major studios are terrified of taking a risk on an unknown IP. That's why they keep snatching up IPs with established audiences. I can't wait until that attitude changes. There are…

I'm in a community like this, which is also very heavily moderated. It still has toxic elements because the people who run the platform think a certain way.

The incentives in healthcare aren't prioritizing healthcare. It's a systemwide problem.

I'm active in many writing communities. There is a culture, among writers, to "Never respond to reviews." Those who dare break that taboo are asking for trouble, in the form of twi…

I'm in the writing industry, and I definitely see this with young writers. He's absolutely correct.

Did scientists ever figure out how sauropods ate enough to support their mass, with their tiny mouths?

100%. This is the case in online serials, and books, as well. There is also an emotional investment factor that comes with long serials, as opposed to single seasons. The more time…

Exactly. What happened in the 1990s was a major consolidation of all retailers, including bookstores. This created limited shelf space, which, in turn, put pressure on publishers t…

Lulu is ancient, and has been outcompeted by Amazon and other platforms. Wattpad has something like 65 million readers. > If the current companies are screwing up so badly, who are…

It's not impossible. The problem is a lack of incentives. Amazon offers 70% royalties to indie authors. YouTube offers peanuts to indie film makers. Netflix offers nothing. Film-ma…

This is one of those overly simplistic views that doesn't take the underlying laws and incentives into account. Sure, it's bean counters. So then go a step further, and ask yoursel…