Ilana Masad

Hahaha I think that one is great but not necessarily actually clear to a general audience XD

How about just Heist: A History or something like that?

Suburban wine moms can have so much power when they choose to, inspiring to see this tbh

I'm glad you asked because I'm so confused by this decision!

Congratulations, K.C., this looks amazing, and I can't wait to apply! (deleted earlier comment because I went to the website and saw you'll open applications spring of next year)

To boldly cower when no one has cowered before!

To all the gigs I've had before...

...where the hell are you

As the inbox piles up with "Best New X of the Year, Month, Week, Day, Hour—" marketing, I whisper quietly to myself: "I want the worst of the year. The worst of yesterday, today, tomorrow. The layabouts, lunkheads, and losers."

It's always a bold new voice this, a daring debut that... Once in a while I'd love a meek and uncertain new voice, a cowering debut

The issue is that plenty of people see something like this and think of Data from Star Trek or the like without understanding that it's likely precisely the texts of Star Trek novels among the vast amount of materials LLMs eat up that is allowing the LLM to spew something like this >.<

Zoom's "smoothing" feature is really fucking with my sense of my own aging face

Wow this is...so sad. It's incredible that rather than any coherent ideology, it's just a continuous whining about "the left"

Here for All the Reasons: Why We Watch The Bachelor. Edited by Ilana Masad and Stevie K. Seibert Desjarlais.

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As a longtime conflicted member of Bachelor Nation, this is the Bachelor book I've been waiting for. Here For All The Reasons is sharply observed, deeply interrogated, and fun as hell. It's the smartest warxh part around. --Aubrey Gordon, author, columnist, and co-host of Maintenance Phase

I am so incredibly honored that @yrfatfriend.bsky.social - author, activist, co-host of one of my favorite podcasts - has blurbed the Bachelor anthology I co-edited 😍

She says: "As a longtime conflicted member of Bachelor Nation, this is the Bachelor book I've been waiting for."

This is such a great alternative blurb XD thank you, Aubrey!!!

It is so fun and smart!! In a time when nothing is fun OR smart!!!!

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As a longtime conflicted member of Bachelor Nation, this is the Bachelor book I've been waiting for. Here For All The Reasons is sharply observed, deeply interrogated, and fun as hell. It's the smartest warxh part around. --Aubrey Gordon, author, columnist, and co-host of Maintenance Phase

I am so incredibly honored that @yrfatfriend.bsky.social - author, activist, co-host of one of my favorite podcasts - has blurbed the Bachelor anthology I co-edited 😍

She says: "As a longtime conflicted member of Bachelor Nation, this is the Bachelor book I've been waiting for."

by which I mean it implied that the book I'm writing has zero audience lololol

maiden, mother, crone, other a working theory of novel marketing

Anyway this substack fucked me right up today hbu

leighstein.substack.com/p/maiden-mot...

Great question! I'll be completely honest and say I have no idea, I haven't read it, it's just one of those annoying headlines that you know is meant to cause my exact reaction (also cafes selling fancy decaf options aren't making those options any cheaper anyway)

why does the nyt want us to be joyless and lacking energy

how incredibly bizarre - if you think you're teaching the AI something through conversation (rather than programming) then aren't you by definition falling to AI psychosis????

No totally there are a few breakout ones, but they seem to be pretty rare

Thank you, this is my feeling too, but I feel like we might be the rarity

Yeah, that's fair!

I don't know that there is, is the thing - I feel like there are a couple standouts about that, but it's not actually that common and maybe because there isn't an audience for it!

That's so interesting and also fair!

Hahahaha very real

Well, that's encouraging to hear! I'm currently spiraling due to a substack post my agent sent me that basically implies no one will read my current WIP lololol

In fiction too?

Relatedly - nonparents, do you ever pick up novels about people in the throes of early parenting or is that a huge turn off?