Publishing Industry Not In My Favour

What You ACTUALLY Need to Get A Book Deal (Not What You Think)
Alyssa Matesic | 22 Sept. 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3AWzT-WZ1Q

I'm noting that "no obvious connection" actually involves people who are:

• at work
• home makers
• retired
• discrete.

It would seem, publishers might tend to think of these people as "more reliable" and "mature" than online influencers. Which reflects in 20.5/1.6 = 12.8 times as many deals, and which is obviously a worrying statistic and prejudice for an online influencer. Who, as he doesn't monetise his blogs, needs a book deal.

[Tried to add, follow up to it]

I'm also noting self published previously is less than twice onliners.

This obviously confirms the kind of prejudice I think I would be dealing with in terms of well established publishers (who have most of the titles, obviously)/

Does This Writer Read?

New blog on the kid: Traditional Publishing Does Not Mean Already Existing Publishing Houses · Assorted retorts from yahoo boards and elsewhere: Does This Writer Read?

Yes, this essayist reads essays.

I could add, I used to read lots more novels before I got this stress level. Some people think my being a Meldahón equals my being impotent, and if they could only stress me out a bit more, I'd be a Meldahón no more. They have stressed me out of being a regular novel reader and out of writing chapters on my fan fic novel. They have not stressed me out of reading essays and of writing essays.

You're Not Really a Writer Unless You Do THIS
Alyssa Matesic | 24 March 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VybKKdyQy30

1:21 I think this is OK criticism, about novelist.

I don't read much novels, ergo, I am not a novelist.

It's not OK criticism about essayists.

I read lots of essays, reply to lots of them in mine and write others not in such replies.

The fact that I read the essays mainly online and that essay writing is a much shorter format than novel writing, doesn't basically change this. Though obviously it changes the perception of people who consider "being on the internet" is mutually exclusive with reading. People who wonder why I don't have thick books and they see me spend hours on them.