>>24718259
Yeah, the poetry stuff kind of subsumed the rest of the story, unfortunately.
>>24718471
I originally wrote it to be 150,000 words, but I chopped it down considerably before submitting it. Then, with some of his guidance, I chopped it down more. Every editor helps with that. He didn't do anything particularly unusual in that regard, as much as he may disagree. I still respect him as an editor, as unhinged as he is, though (even when he introduced new grammatical errors into my manu at times). As I've said before: If every editor who offered commentary or advice or editorial suggestions for the books they worked on somehow became a contributor for/controller of them, no artist would be the sole author of any book, and they wouldn't be able to republish anywhere. Our industry doesn't work that way. Very weird that he'd still be so insistent upon exercising control over the book when his whole motto revolves around freedom for artists (pic rel). I could go into detail about how much he deliberately tried to inconvenience me after the story broke, but I'd rather not here, for legal reasons.
>AI-generated book
He published a book of material generated from the AI model he programmed or whatever. Can't remember the name. Complained to me that no one bought it. Go figure. At one point, he wanted me to try using AI to streamline the narrative/dialogue of "Femoid," and I refused because that's gay. There's no point in writing a novel if you're gonna appeal to a computer to help you with it. He might've used AI to generate one piece of art in the original (I wouldn't have had control over that), but it's since been removed.
>>24718853
lmao
>>24719359
His stable of writers is excellent, at least. His personal writing style... Well, you can decide. Mind you, one of the books of his he mailed me was very impressive in scope. I'll give him that. The admiration I personally expressed to him many, many times was is continues to be genuine.