In Defense of Writers

Even before I was dropped on my head and decided, “Let’s make a living vomiting words on a page.” I noticed there was something inherently wrong with the relationship between authors and a significant number of their readers. At some point in time, readers have become convinced authors are capable of pulling a full written, edited, and formatted book out of their ass one month after releasing another book.

Newsflash: It doesn’t happen like that at all.

Most writers will only be able to produce...