Alejandro A. Riera
@alejandroariera.bsky.social
Writer, editor, critic, movie lover, Doctor Who fan, proud to be a boricua, a cubano and a gallego. Curmudgeon extraordinaire. You can find my writing here https://alejandroariera.substack.com and at times at outlets like the Chicago Reader.
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Making it impossible for an author to sell their next book doesn’t just kill that book. It makes it far less likely the author will continue writing at all. They have to make a living somehow and they were already earning pennies an hour for their bonkers fragile and emotionally demanding work.
November 25, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Making it impossible for an author to sell their next book doesn’t just kill that book. It makes it far less likely the author will continue writing at all. They have to make a living somehow and they were already earning pennies an hour for their bonkers fragile and emotionally demanding work.
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Most publishers (there are always exceptions) decide whether or not to buy a second book (or a third etc) based on how the previous book did. So when you pirate a book in most cases it’s less about the money you just stole from both author and publisher it’s about the future book you just killed.
November 25, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Most publishers (there are always exceptions) decide whether or not to buy a second book (or a third etc) based on how the previous book did. So when you pirate a book in most cases it’s less about the money you just stole from both author and publisher it’s about the future book you just killed.
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Some $ context, since people still think of Paramount as a huge studio: It's barely had a pulse for a while. The now-deadish Mission: Impossible series was its only movie in the US top 25 this year. So it's naturally frantic to build a 2026-28 lineup. And mining IP is easier than reading scripts. >
November 25, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Some $ context, since people still think of Paramount as a huge studio: It's barely had a pulse for a while. The now-deadish Mission: Impossible series was its only movie in the US top 25 this year. So it's naturally frantic to build a 2026-28 lineup. And mining IP is easier than reading scripts. >
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you can argue about whether or not Trump’s administration is fascist; the elite insistence that, even if true, no one should call him that because it sounds rude is a substantial part of how we got here
November 25, 2025 at 1:41 PM
you can argue about whether or not Trump’s administration is fascist; the elite insistence that, even if true, no one should call him that because it sounds rude is a substantial part of how we got here
Me? The Spanish-American War with a cast of Spanish, Cuban, Filipino and Puerto Rican actors doing the voices of their respective kin.
November 25, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Me? The Spanish-American War with a cast of Spanish, Cuban, Filipino and Puerto Rican actors doing the voices of their respective kin.
I still need to catch up with the first two. But watching Testament the day after Wake Up Dead Man made for quite an interesting contrast. A good one too.
November 24, 2025 at 11:36 PM
I still need to catch up with the first two. But watching Testament the day after Wake Up Dead Man made for quite an interesting contrast. A good one too.