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I know probably three dozen authors. $500k every two years seems great for a job that so many people romanticize, but the money goes fast. The writing is the easy part. Self promot…

That’s the problem. Literary culture requires nucleation—for shared discussion and to finance projects. But the real talent differences are not steep enough to justify it. I I said…

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You should meet literary agents. An LLM is not as good as a skilled human who has already committed to giving your work a fair read. It is far superior to the quality of read you w…

What cronyism buys you is restarts. Having an enforcer can get you more than the 20 pages. You’ll be read to the end by every judge, and you may not get the award (these are compet…

Rich people are panicking because they’ve seen a capital-poor country win a war with cheap drones and want to lock down as many technologies as they can, lest the ruled realize the…

Right, and half the time they can’t tell what could sell because their thinking is so provincial and rigid.

Publishing houses will screen fiction for well-written and interesting fiction. Why would they start now?

At every step, a human had the opportunity to say "no, this is bad". And the fact that they didn't is a vote of quality and reputation. Romantic image. Doesn’t hold. Traditional pu…