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Dave's avatar

Three things:

1. Dave from your Wyoming days is thrilled for you and looking forward to the book landing on a shelf near me!

2. Check out the rest of Wolfe's non-fiction canon, especially "The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamlined Baby," which thanks to his writer's block is just his notes typed up somewhat coherently.

3. Love the AI disclaimer at the top! Way to stand up for the integrity of your work.

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Jennifer Frazer's avatar

Hey Dave! Great to hear from you. Thanks so much for these comments -- they mean a lot. I tried reading Bonfire of the Vanities but I just couldn't get into it because Wolfe's interest in social class, physical markers of social class, and manifold unlikable characters were just not my thing. I think he should have stuck with nonfiction, personally. I'll check out the one you recommend!

As for the AI disclaimer, that's the language the Author's Guild is now recommending all members use on their online work and I was happy to borrow it. It's good to remind people where LLMs come from, even though I have no realistic hope it will actually stop the scrapers.

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