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   Lili Saintcrow (lilithsaintcrow@raggedfeathers.com)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Jun-2025 05:33:48 JST Lili Saintcrow

   An incredibly interesting half-hour video from the Second Story about why there "hasn't been another Tolkien". The answer is... not what you think.
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BBrDhgGz1k

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     Lili Saintcrow (lilithsaintcrow@raggedfeathers.com)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Jun-2025 05:33:44 JST Lili Saintcrow

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     It must be noted that without authors, publishers don't have anything to edit, proof, market, sell, profit from. Yet the managerial and above echelons of tradpub consistently treat authors like the biggest threat in the world, penalizing us at every turn.

     It's very odd.

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     Lili Saintcrow (lilithsaintcrow@raggedfeathers.com)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Jun-2025 05:33:46 JST Lili Saintcrow

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     The history dovetails with my recent realisation that for trad publishers, the enemy isn't censorship, IP theft, or the plagiarism slop machine. No, the base assumption for tradpub C- and managerial suites is that the enemy is *writers demanding a fair price for their artistic labour*.

     Mr. Bill repeated this.