(1) Would you publish a bestselling author even if you weren’t a big fan of the book, but you knew it would sell?
Yes. Yes I would. I would publish anything from the following authors, sight unseen: Dan Brown, J.K. Rowling, “E.L. James,” John Grisham, John Green, the Jolly Green Giant, Andre the Giant, Andre 3000, Nora Roberts, James Patterson—whoever. You name ‘em, and if they’re on the rack at the grocery store I’ll slap a cover on some hastily stapled together pages and I will sell it. Is it a good book? I don’t know. Not important.
The $$$$ (the only thing that matters in the world) would be good and it would allow me subsequently to stroke my ego by publishing brilliant books that nobody else would read (presumably because they aren’t on the shelf at the grocery store), thus fulfilling the American Dream of being rich and hip at which point I’ll be raptured to some gigantic office building/library/Brooklyn loft where I will spend my days eating calorie free tacos and rapping with J.D. Salinger about things I thought were important at one point, but later learned were too hard to think about.
The game is rigged. Keep shining your flashlights, scouts.
(2) Are you a gatekeeper?
No. No I am not.
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