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Where Are All the Young Writers? [2026 Redux]
This is an essay previously published in August 2024, revised and updated with new commentary and data.
There is an old school notion about youth, creativity, and commerce that has been true for about forever. Art and the people who sell i...
Execution is More Important than A Great Book Idea
It was not in the plans to have a post viewed more than 35,000 times (by far the most ever for this newsletter) in a few days before a long planned two-week vacation. If you are a new paid subscriber because of “The Nonfiction Book Market i...
Radical Ideas for Fixing the Nonfiction Book Market
DHM Confidential Vol. #7
The comment section was delightfully filled to the brim on this week’s newsletter “The Nonfiction Book Market is Collapsing.” The engagement (it quickly became by far the most read essay on Dear Head of Mine) has b...
The Nonfiction Book Market is Collapsing
This is not one of those periodic “End of Reading” Atlantic click bait essays. Americans—well, the kind who read books or newsletters about books—are well-versed in the challenges with literacy and education that have stretched on for decad...
Writing, The World’s Most Expensive Hobby
DHM Confidential Vol. #6
This DHM Confidential is almost entirely behind a paywall, it makes the argument that writing is the world’s most expensive hobby and that what makes you a professional writer goes beyond someone paying you to publ...
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