Characters Holding Novels They Appear In

Every December like clockwork, some genius on the internet gets on Reddit to argue that Die Hard is a Christmas movie, as if they’re the first person to ever think of that. It’s such a tedious argument. Die Hard takes place at Christmas for crying out loud—the film explicitly features Christmas part

I have a magical rented blue checkmark that’s advertised to grant “enhanced visibility.” In mid-October, my reach on Twitter dropped 75% overnight and never recovered. My engagement rate? Running an order of magnitude over platform average—exceptional by any measure. When I contacted Premium support

Traditional publishers are negotiating AI training deals worth hundreds of millions and establishing consent-based licensing standards. Meanwhile, Amazon has made no public statement about whether it can—or will—use the millions of books on Kindle Direct Publishing for the same purpose. The silence

Stanford tracked 3.2 million images across a major marketplace and found sales increased 39% after AI art was introduced—consumers actively chose AI-generated images. Christie’s AI art auction exceeded estimates by $128,000 despite 6,500 petition signatures opposing it. Consumer detection accuracy h

“If everyone in your book is morally gray, no one is.” That was the opening salvo I referred to as “utter nonsense” in a debate about moral complexity in fiction that quickly revealed how prescriptive craft advice collapses under scrutiny. What started as a categorical claim about necessary structur