/lit/ - Literature

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The decent 4chan authors never shill themselves or make any overt references to 4chan in their work. I've only ever read the free samples, but Zak Winters seems like the most competent, and you never see threads about his books, just banner ads for a week or two. I don't even remember the name of any of his books because even though they are grammatically solid and based on somewhat interesting premises, they are still entirely forgettable. PA Choi is also pretty funny, but his style of humor runs thin after a few pages. I thought the "Golden Age Fantasy" thing was some sort of RPG and still haven't read the sample.

You can pretty much judge a 4chan author's quality by the amount of effort they put into accumulating a 4chan audience. Like F Gardner and John David Card have both made a fetish of appealing to 4chan, and neither one has produced anything remotely readable or interesting. That's because a smart author realizes there probably aren't more than 500 paying customers on /lit/ and therefore there is little reason to craft a product entirely for them, and even if there were 50,000 daily visitors to /lit/, the amount of effort and thought it takes to meet /lit/'s incredibly high standards for writing is vastly higher than what it would take to cultivate a 50,000 person audience from the drooling masses at large in other arenas of the web. Case in point: I am a man who routinely purchases books. I have read and enjoyed several free Kindle samples from authors on 4chan, and have been engrossed to the point of disappointment when the free sample left me hanging. Literally never once have I considered purchasing any of these books. I don't know why and I don't care enough to speculate about the reasons. And a word to any aspiring "4chan authors", that's the person you're trying to appeal to: someone who doesn't care and who doesn't care that they don't care and who paradoxically considers himself the smartest man in the world but has nothing but contempt for anyone foolish enough to take his opinions seriously. A bitter, spiteful man who rarely follows up on any of his emotions and commands no respect from his peers. And even if by some miracle you were able to formulate a novel which could take a legion of similar men by storm and ignite their hearts and spawn dozens of memes and genuine raving reviews and analysis, the end result would be a couple thousand dollars at most and the scorn of the wider reading public. There is nothing on /lit/ for the aspiring author.