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vaughn tan
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i have a proposal for a book about secret networks of influence dynamics ... and how japanese food became a high-end cuisine in america in the late 1970s. inviting opinions about whether this is too weird for traditional publishing (at least two agents have told me that so far), and suggestions for alternatives.
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several ppl have told me that weird books are in a paradox space: they seem too weird to be marketable, yet only weird books can become unexpected hits. same paradox as innovation: building really new things is failure-prone and we are averse to it — but if we know how to build it, it is definitionally not new.
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