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A. E. Lowan reacted to Mad Swede's post in the thread Mr. Grumpy Pants Offers Sage Advice with
Love.
If you want to call the process by which publisers find a new author and/or book to publish gatekeeping then do so. But in my view that... -
A. E. Lowan replied to the thread Mr. Grumpy Pants Offers Sage Advice.It's fair to say the industry is gatekeepered, but not through elitism - usually - or caprice. To be honest, with the advent of AI slop...
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A. E. Lowan reacted to ludwig1beethoven's post in the thread Sound Off Safe from the Middle East with Love.
Quiet in Tel Aviv too. Hopefully it will continue to be that way. Thank you for the thread
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A. E. Lowan replied to the thread Mr. Grumpy Pants Offers Sage Advice.Accurate. But it's also something that most people in the industry know, and it's the reason for sections in the Writer's Market and...
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A. E. Lowan replied to the thread Mr. Grumpy Pants Offers Sage Advice.And just in time, Mr. Grumpy Pants returns! lol
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A. E. Lowan replied to the thread Mr. Grumpy Pants Offers Sage Advice.Yeah, it's really that hard. With the advent of social media, it's gotten easier than when I was a kid and being brought up to the...
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It's been alright here in the UAE so far. Some disturbances, I suppose, but nothing major. Thanks for the thread, by the way! đź’–
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A. E. Lowan replied to the thread Mr. Grumpy Pants Offers Sage Advice.I think that's a pretty accurate assessment. I remember when scammers had to really work to find writers in the wild. All they could...
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A. E. Lowan replied to the thread Mr. Grumpy Pants Offers Sage Advice.I think the thing is the scammers come for us where we're the weakest: Right in the validation. For those of us who have found our way...
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A. E. Lowan reacted to Mad Swede's post in the thread Mr. Grumpy Pants Offers Sage Advice with Love.
Yes, there's a lot of people who need to hear this. The only thing I would say is that the cost of publishing a book (that is, what it...
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A. E. Lowan replied to the thread Mr. Grumpy Pants Offers Sage Advice.Which is great. We love to socialize. But this isn't the thread for it. We try to - mostly... kinda... sorta - stay on subject so the...
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A. E. Lowan replied to the thread Mr. Grumpy Pants Offers Sage Advice.I think that's fair. Everybody's got their something, and I think that's beautiful. Doesn't stop me from having a lot of friends and...
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A. E. Lowan replied to the thread Mr. Grumpy Pants Offers Sage Advice.Okay, I'll bite. Why not? I'll admit, there are readers who I wouldn't want reading our work because they either wouldn't appreciate it...
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I like this guy a whole bunch. He's a bit of a curmudgeon, but so am I and you guys all think I'm awesome, so here we go. Basic stuff...
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Quiet in Jerusalem. So far... And thanks for the thread