I watch too much youtube, and today found myself musing about a video I would make if I were an authortuber, which I’m not. So then I thought, hey, I could record it if I were a podcaster! Which I’m not. (I was briefly but that was awhile ago now.) And then I remembered that I could just write it down, because I am a writer, and oh yeah, I have a newsletter.

Anyway, what I was thinking about was this: I have read some bad books over the last few years, and I’m pretty glad I did, because I def...