/lit/ - Literature

>>19271933
Make a guest appearance on the Simpsons.

Pretend to be your agent.

>>19271933
By being me

>>19271959
This is gold

>>19271933
Maybe start with a pseudonym.
Then you can perhaps try going down the buckethead route. Using a mask that hides most of your facial features, so that noone would be able to recognise you.
I've been thinking about this a lot as I'm fairly reclusive and would like to maintain this state of affairs, as i find the whole networking and always having to be constantly engaged with social media makes me feel absolutely emotionally drained.

>>19272368
the buckethead route has nothing to do with being reclusive, being reclusive doesn't mean being a masked clown
as for the op,
>>19271933
you can't, now you're in charge of your own marketing and that means your people skills are just as important if not more than your writing skills. people like Pynch belong to another era where editors and publishers were in charge of your image and marketing, this is no longer the case. publishers want to know how popular your are before picking you up, they don't want to place bets on a nameless horse with no credit.
this is why we're in this situation where everyone is woke, and there will be more and more woke people who say the same things in every environment that relies on the internet to sell, you need connections and virality over the internet and you cannot achieve that going against the grain

>>19272386
>> Nothing to do with being reclusive.
He is reclusive m8. The mask helps maintain his reclusiveness especially when he's giving interviews (he comes across as weird)
I also see the mask as an instrument that helps conceal his identity.

I agree with your point regarding the fact that OP will find himself unable to achieve his goal by going against the grain.
However, do you think we shall see times where publishing might change course and literary agents will start representing authors like in Pinchon's time?

DUDE
he’s 16 here???
I always thought he was in his mid 20’s.