Mild-mannered writing professor. Author of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self and The Office of Historical Corrections.
Jun 10, 2020 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
So, as a side note, some of the shocking #PublishingPaidMe numbers are obviously bad marketing predictions, (mis)informed by a limited sense of what Black writers’ market is. But a lot of the super-high advances for non-celebrities aren’t about actual sales projections... 1/10
but about competition, or the fear of competition— a writer gets a big offer so that the book doesn’t go to another publisher. I think a lot about consensus and diversity— (2/10)
Aug 5, 2019 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
I’m going to make the mistake of trying to have a complicated thought on Twitter, so first let me be clear that I don’t think anyone at all should be able to order a 100 round magazine off the internet, and also
that I absolutely think the Dayton shooter’s history
of threatening violence, and threatening girls and women, is relevant to understanding the pattern of mass violence. (I also think it’s telling that even as classmates were coming forward to say how long they’d been scared of him, a few news sources ran with
