Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always.
I have to go make books. Sorry about that.
Didn't need the user icon to know you're white and male.
Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.
If there is no willingness to use force to defend civil society, it's civil society that goes away, not force.
If this power could be used for good, it wouldn't be this power.