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I went to the New York county clerk’s website and found this filing. It includes the entire manuscript with allllllll the editor’s comments as exhibit B.

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I didn’t read the manuscript. Just the comments. They’re...amazing. Even better than the excerpts in the filing.

And a pretty good summary of the book I imagine.

The editor is a conservative man who has published books for 45 & other folks with similar opinions. You can see that in the occasional “good point” comments. But mostly he was very politely having NONE of Milo’s bullshit.

It’s glorious.

Also I now know I can write a book, because ffs he wrote A WHOLE CHAPTER about how ugly people hate him

Literally anyone could do better than this

You can feel the faint air of “oh god, what have we gotten ourselves into” getting stronger

Then the frustration starts creeping in

More from the category of “things a professional editor never imagined they’d need to tell someone”

Will immediately start using “if you want to make a case for [fucking ridiculous thing], you’re going to have to employ a lot more intellectual rigor than you use here.” 🔥🔥🔥

“assertions that don’t have the weight of fact” yes yes that’s another good one *takes notes* 🔥🔥🔥

Mr. Ivers is getting pretty sick of your bullshit, young man.

And about that ego -

And the humor -

And the...wait what?

Out of all the editor’s comments, this one most tempted me to read the manuscript. BUT I STAYED STRONG

These were literally just the highlights of the comments.
There’s
so
much
more.

The positive comments were instructive too. Interesting window into how they reframe things to make them sound reasonable.

I can’t seem to link directly to the PDF, but I think you can go here and search for Simon & Schuster as defendant. It’s one of the exhibits filed on Dec 21. iapps.courts.state.ny.us/webcivil/FCASM…

Honestly, when I write a book, I hope my editor will be as straightforward with my work.

But I also hope I earn fewer “I’m very disappointed in you“ notes, and maybe a little less exasperated yelling. [fin]