Gabriel Smith (real 4chan author)

[Anonymous No.23149164]

Gabriel, wtf is your cover? This shit looks ass. The original concept you posted here looked better. You need to slap a bitch at Penguin. It looks like they paid a pajeet on fiverr to design your cover.

[Anonymous No.23149167]

Original concept for comparison

[Anonymous No.23149168]

Stop shilling your schlock, you effeminate homosexual

[Anonymous No.23149194]

>>23149164
>>23149167
Who translated this novel? Was it Max Lawton?

[Anonymous No.23149228]

>>23149194
No, it's an original novel by a member of /lit/. It's being published by Penguin in the US and Simon & Schuster in the UK. You should be proud that one of /lit/'s very own has made it. That's more than Gardner, Woolston, Waldun, Nesmer, and company can say.
>>23149168
You should be excited for a 4chan.org/lit/ original novel.

[Anonymous No.23149239]

>/lit/ still seething over Gabriel's success
>>/lit/thread/22277774#p22278385

[Anonymous No.23149267]

>>23149228
Nice to see. Congratulations Gabriel, and good luck!

[Anonymous No.23149269]

>>23149228
Why should I? The point of 4chan is that I go here, know nothing about y'all and argue about stupid shit with no credentials or status to fall back on. The only thing that matters is the quality of your argument. That's the beauty, what you all go on to do after I really don't want to know about.

[Anonymous No.23149282]

>>23149269
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/mar/01/charli-xcx-prankster-is-latest-in-a-long-line-of-authors-to-fool-the-public?CMP=twt_books_b-gdnbooks
But I pranked the internet and Charli XCX...I also created the viral /lit/ meme of Beckett posing with Bowser...

[Anonymous No.23149284]

>>23149269
So you don't want anyone from the writing general threads to make it?

[Anonymous No.23149296]

>>23149284
I do, but I would much rather find your book through genuine interest rather than it being sold through some gimmick. There's also the issue which I previously stated, it just makes the boards worse to have promotion on them.

[Anonymous No.23149298]

>>23149296
Oh actually didn't state it previously and just thought it, oh well.

[Anonymous No.23149308]

What is a /lit/ user really? Many people in the culture surely have looked at the board, but the idea of a /lit/ writer is usually just some nobody loser, and anyone else similar nobodies will likely reject as not ‘authentic’. I remember you making a thread about the old cover, which seems fairly recent ago, too recent desu for the incoming release - but, the point being, sour ppl here will take that, your other recent exposure, etc. (Honor Levy follows you on twitter for example) as not authentically ‘one of us’, either bc you got connexions or you are savvy enough to get in, get noticed, market yourself (and or are just that good)… Congrats tho!

[Anonymous No.23149336]

>>23149167
That's so disgusting, I'd never pay for a book with cover like that

[Anonymous No.23149351]

Congrats bwo, from a fellow writing anon. I remember when you were asking about improving the concept cover last year. I'll check the book out. Hopefully I can make it to Penguin too.

[Anonymous No.23149393]

>>23149167
>A ghost story
I am now interested

[austin schumacher No.23149505]

not real Faggot doesn ' t have anything to write on .

[Anonymous No.23149775]

>>23149505
>haha one day someone will open up my journal and see this random schizo babble I faked and think the owner of this journal was trying to say something really important and if only they could decode it they would have some of the greatest writing to have ever existed
kys

[Anonymous No.23149790]

>>23149228
I’ve never heard of her but kudos

[Anonymous No.23149800]

>>23149164
Congrats on being published but my eyes would zoom past this book in one second. It’s dull and says fuck all.

>>23149167
This is weird enough to stand out at least. Could be cool minus the distorted AI nonsense.
A ghost story adds something. “Brat” is just boring. Sounds like some slice of life garbage so if there actually is a supernatural element they fucked you not including that sub heading.

[Anonymous No.23149857]

Gabriel here. I try to post less on /lit/ these days (not really enthused about my publisher or audience associating nigger hate memes with me lol) but I still check by occasionally. I actually chose that cover after consulting with the publisher but I can see why you would prefer the original concept! They felt it was a little too "1950s." Anyhow, thanks for all the laughs /lit/. Say a "fuck niggers" for me today lol.

[Anonymous No.23149859]

>>23149857
Is that in the imperative?

[Anonymous No.23149881]

>>23149857
based

[Anonymous No.23149957]

subtitling novels 'a novel' is one of my least favourite current trends in publish, very pseud and somehow faintly reddit. subtitling a novel 'a ghost story' is based because it means there will be ghosts in it. Congratulations on your being published; I will keep an eye out for it here in the uk.

[Anonymous No.23149965]

>>23149957
>current trends
zoomzoom

[Anonymous No.23149973]

>>23149957
The reason why people subtitle an image like a book with "a novel", I think, is because if people sees the image out of context, they'd be able to understand, "oh, this shit is a book."

[Gabriel Smith (real author) No.23149976]

>>23149859
>>23149881
Just logging back on to say "fuck niggers" cause you pussy faggots won't.

FUCK NIGGERS

[Anonymous No.23149977]

>25 replies
>16 posters
OP is just samefagging his faggy novel. The last thread “he” shilled demonstrated he is a faggot (and his appearance confirms he is a batty boy) and writes like absolute dogshit

[Anonymous No.23149995]

>>23149977
Gonna cry?

[Anonymous No.23150005]

>Gonna cry?

[Anonymous No.23150008]

>>23150005
L O N D O N
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[Anonymous No.23150015]

>>23150005
Faggy as hell but it's cool that somebody from here got a Penguin book. But yeah bro, make this your last thread on here for years

[Anonymous No.23150109]

>>23149973
Well also so you don't think it's like, a biography or something
>>23150005
Kinda looks like me

[Anonymous No.23150125]

>>23149973
feel like it started with people giving their novels gay 'clever' titles like A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (real), where the fact that it's a novel needs to be told
idk why they keep doing it though
>>23149965
you have no idea how much older than you i am

[Anonymous No.23150151]

>>23150125
>you have no idea how much older than you i am
old enough to remember this, then?

[Anonymous No.23150168]

>>23150151
Not that anon, but I remember reading this in 2015.

[Anonymous No.23150192]

>>23150151
am that anon and i have no idea what you're talking about
going to stop shitting up gabriel's thread now

[Anonymous No.23151315]

>>23150005
I think he's cute, if a bit heavy on the eyebrows. The cover does look boring, tho.

[Anonymous No.23151567]

>>23149228
Is the 4chan.org/lit/ original novel going to be available at Indigo?

What about Gardner, Woolston, Walden, Nesmer; is Max Lawton going to translate their
novels?

[Anonymous No.23151591]

>>23149857
Will you update us with sales numbers? Also what's the book about, I have no interest from the OP cover, but secondary cover makes me a little curious. And don't post the synopsis.

[Anonymous No.23151760]

>>23149976
You sound like a attention whoring brat

[Anonymous No.23152843]

bump 4 gabe

[Anonymous No.23154596]

>>23149164
Congrats on being published.

However, this is just another example of the whole "muh Trad publishing ruining literature, only issuing woke garbage" narrative being false. Something that is the bread and butter of your fellow Twitter faggotburo.

Modern lit is hot garbage. And the fault lies entirely upon modern writers. Or at least on the "literary" community and who it chooses to hype. This includes lit-adjacent edgelords and femanons.

This looks like more of the same to me. I might be wrong. But I doubt it. Anyways, enjoy your dub.

[Anonymous No.23154609]

>>23154596
>reddit spacing
go back.

[Anonymous No.23154636]

>>23150005
nigga holds water in his mouth his whole life

[Anonymous No.23154652]

>>23154636
He does look like a chipmunk.

[Anonymous No.23154808]

>>23154636
Never know when you might need that drink. It's hot out here with global warming and all that.

[Anonymous No.23154915]

>>23150005
>Britfag

Well of course HE got published, the UK doesn't have the imperative of ignoring white men that the US has. They can't afford to given that white people are, for now, such an overwhelmingly large percentage of the population.

[Anonymous No.23155420]

>>23154915
>he doesn't know…

[Anonymous No.23155465]

>>23149228
connecting yourself to this place is ultimately always counterproductive in any real life social environment.
I have published two novels in my home country and I am fairly known btw.

[Anonymous No.23155475]

>>23154915
>UK
>white people are, for now, such an overwhelmingly large percentage of the population.

[Anonymous No.23155740]

>>23149164
Hello, this is actually me. This is the US cover and I really like it. The other one is the UK one and I really like that, too.

>>23149957
You don't get to decide this, I didn't decide 'a ghost story' either. I think it's something to do with SEO, or cataloguing, I'm not entirely sure. I agree it's a ridiculous trend, and best ignored.

>>23149308
I'm just that good. Thank you.

>>23149269
I agree that this is what makes it beautiful.

>>23154636
Lol

Thank you for all the well-wishes.

[Anonymous No.23155747]

>>23155740
If I may ask, what's your book about? I might read it if it sounds interesting.

[Anonymous No.23155846]

>>23149282
>“The idea is ridiculous, so it’s funny. I like making fun of how insanely, deludedly self-important novelists often act.”
Smith actually is deluded and acts insanely self-important.

[Anonymous No.23155971]

No excerpt?

[Anonymous No.23155972]

>>23155971
It hasn't come out yet

[Anonymous No.23155984]

>>23155971
Here is an excerpt

[Anonymous No.23156025]

>>23155747
It's about a bad writer of autofiction whose father dies. He moves back into the family home to (very reluctantly) clear it out for sale. He is trying to write his contractually-obligated second novel, and keeps getting beaten up.

All his skin starts to peel off, like a reptile. In the house he reads unfinished manuscripts his parents, who were both writers, left behind. The manuscripts seem to hint at strange family secrets or alternate futures.

He starts getting haunted by ghosts, who bear some resemblance to characters from the manuscripts. He wants to 'solve the mystery' of where the fictions end and reality begins.

It's meant to be a very literal 'hauntological' ghost story (I wrote it when I was 24 and had just learned this word) and also the inevitable collapse of autofiction/memory/the self into narrative.

>>23155846
Yes, I'm a novelist

[Anonymous No.23156029]

>>23156025
>collapse of autofiction/memory/the self into narrative
Kek pseuds who write slop are so predictable in how they justify their lowbrow writing

[Anonymous No.23156030]

>>23156025
Who are your favorite authors?

[Anonymous No.23156035]

>>23156029
>ITH THO LOWBROW!, he lithped irritatedly
You sound really mad and only slightly literate

[Anonymous No.23156038]

>>23156029
true, but it's subtitled 'a ghost story', it's explicitly lowbrow

[Anonymous No.23156039]

>>23156035
>seething this much over writing lowbrow schlock
Kek Maybe get some T, gabby, you retarded dyel
>https://magazine.nytyrant.com/some-cliffs-which-overlooked-some-sea-gabriel-smith/
>https://barelysouthreview.com/transubstantiation/
>https://www.thedriftmag.com/the-stare/
>https://www.thedriftmag.com/the-complete/
Impressive that someone writes worse than Colleen Hoover and shills their work here

[Anonymous No.23156047]

>>23156039
Not gonna lie - I only read the Complete, which was excellent. The rest could be Colleen sloppa. Have you read them? You sound positively steaming with rage.

[Anonymous No.23156058]

>>23156038
Hamlet is a Ghost Story.

[Anonymous No.23156065]

>>23155740
>This is the US cover and I really like it
What the fuck is wrong with you? It's ass. The doe is photorealistic while the background is AI slop. It's jarring and ugly.
>inb4 that's the point!
It's going to make people discredit your book when they see it on the shelf. If I saw this in stores I wouldn't give it a chance. But since I know a bit a about it and that you're a /lit/izen I will buy it.

[Anonymous No.23156098]

>>23156025
>novel about a novelist writing a novel
>characters from manuscripts coming to life
>autofiction
Well, can't pretend that this sounds particulaly original on a conceptual level but I can see how the ghosts could make this thematically interesting and in the end it's the writing that counts, so congrats I guess.

[Anonymous No.23156102]

>>23156030
Gabriel answer this or I will never buy your book.

[Anonymous No.23156138]

>>23156098
Sounds like pure slop and that exerpt ain't exactly promishing. Not to mention he got screwed with the cover.
That being said I'll give the book a chance.

[Anonymous No.23156152]

>You sound positively steaming with rage.

[Anonymous No.23156161]

>>23156102
Steve Jobs

[Anonymous No.23156223]

>>23156038 this>>>23156058

[Anonymous No.23156522]

>>23156058
>>23156223

This is so stupid, for these reasons:

- Hamlet, at the time it was written, was explicitly mass-market, lowbrow media.

- Hamlet has a subtitle, and it isn't 'a ghost story'.

- Or you're drawing a bizarre false equivalency, in which all media's subject matter defines its cultural cache, and Moby Dick is the same as The Meg.

- Or you're saying Brat is Hamlet-tier.

Just an utterly ridiculous thing to say.

[Anonymous No.23158738]

>>23156522
>never posted a serious author list
get fucked Gabriel. fake ass anon.