The promo is by Free Range Oyster, the resident ambulatory mollusc. However, this musing is on the subject of work, backbreaking work and joy. It was the multiple complications of a relatively simple but messy internal problem. So, what now? .

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Shoplifting in the Marketplace of Ideas. Now, it would be easy, so, so easy to join the dog-piling and point out things like. No, my point is that she is wrong about the lack of gatekeepers. There are actually more gatekeepers now than there are editors and publishers and agents in the entire publishing industry.