Chasing Smaller Sheep

Next slide. “Brandon Sanderson is a member of the LDS”. The muttering has changed tone

“It’s not a very big amount of money though.” Someone in the audience pipes up. “His cut is only a small fraction of the cost of the book, and then-“ my next slide shows an income breakdown, it is titled ‘a small fraction of $10,000,000 is still a big number’

Actually this is a big part of why you see so many successful mormon authors! Not necessarily people being deliberately pressured to buy the books, I've never heard of that happening, but there's a big writing culture and it's generally easier for mormons to get published in the first place because of their accessible English university classes and their internal book distribution network giving many authors a leg up. It's worth noting that while I'm unaware of any deliberate attempts to game bestseller lists like these tags imply, simply being mormon authors helps sell books to other mormons, because mormons tend to be very wary about reading inappropriate content. A mormon picking out a book for themselves, or especially picking out a book for their children, will likely favour a book available through their mormon bookstore or a book written by a mormon in a bookshop, because they know that the material in the book will be appropriate and morally acceptable. (That or Disney, which is al,so apparently very popular among mormons.) Since mormons tend to have a strong reading and writing culture, this captive audience certainly isn't nothing.

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Game Boy Wars Advance 1+2 (Nintendo Dream Strategy Guide)

Point up on Bea for serving (seriously, what a stunning panel), point down on Tora for shaming.

Point up to Doc Fate the Second for a relatively progressive gender situation.

Point up to J'onn for taking some time to reconnect with his spirituality. (Also, I really enjoy how Adam Hughes draws natural!J'onn's face. Great art this issue overall.)

and another point up for dunking on Guy.

points up for both Scott and Ted for being supportive pals.

Another predictable point down on Guy. Again, I know it's the point of him, but I still gotta take him to task in his more egregious moments.

point up to Peegee for getting Wally's ass.

god, yeah, J'onn is just the best ever.

point up to Buddy for being vulnerable, and point up to Dmitri for being a supportive friend.

point up to Rex for a double-whimsical power use.

point up to Bats for continuing to demean and bully Guy.

point up to Booster for asking the real questions.

point up to Guy for some weaponized irreverence.

Really. This is the take. Really. First of all, your brain has to be rotted like an old sponge to say “the Nazi candidate had to drop out because he’s a rapist and that’s humiliating for the Democrats who saw the giant red flags and tried to get a normal politician to beat him instead.” Nope, we can’t acknowledge that those filthy ~establishment Democrats~ were right to try to stop Platner, that’s against the internet cool kid rules