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Processing: How Hannah Lillith Assadi Wrote Paradiso 17
Author photo by Jordan Ledy
Processing is Counter Craft’s semi-regular interview series where I talk to authors about the craft and writing process behind their work. You can find previous entries here.
This week, I’m excited to be talkin...
LLMs Are Revealing How Low the Bar Is (And Lowering It Even Further)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
For all of the truckloads of money and advanced technology behind LLMs, their primary achievement so far may be in revealing how low the bar is in seemingly every field. The various LLM/AI scandals this...
Scavenging in the Media Wastelands: Or, Substacking While Trying to Make a Living Writing
From The Triumph of Death by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Yes, I acknowledge this is a bit of an overly dramatic image choice.)
For this week’s Counter Craft, I’m trying something a little different and co-publishing a conversation with abou...
On Making Money (Or Not) Writing
Albrecht Dürer circa 1512–1525
Two tangentially related topics this Friday:
Making and Not Making Money Writing
I was interviewed by for the How I Make Money Writing Substack. Authors probably don’t talk about money enough, even if...
Why BookScan Is Different from Book Sales (Which Are Different from Royalty Statements)
“Ugh, we’re doing math in a literary newsletter?”
I’m deep in the novel revision mines—Haunted Hills coming to you next year!—so this article will be on the shorter side. I wanted to relate a little publishing industry gossip and then exp...
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Lincoln Michel is the author of Metallic Realms (Atria Books), The Body Scout (Orbit), and Upright Beasts (Coffee House Press). His fiction appears in The Paris Review, F&SF, Lightspeed, Granta, and The Baffler. He runs the newsletter Counter Craft.
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