Michael Malice

wouldn't be encouraged to self-publish.

So I don't think it's percolated to powerful people yet how feasible this is and how profitable it is and how they'll still be able to reach their audience.

And I feel...

If Anarchist Handbook wasn't such a gigantic success, I would be much more nervous about The White Pill.

But the fact that it was and that I saw it from start to finish and I know the ins and outs, now I'm like, what are you guys bringing to the table?

So it's taking a year of my time and introducing edits that I would not otherwise agree with.

Because it used to be you self-published when you can't get a book deal.

So it's like an admission of failure.

No, I would recommend it as something for authors of a certain stature, for lack of a better term.

Because it is still, in terms of your resume and your experience, it's better to get a crappy advance and have a book with St.

Martin's that goes nowhere than a self-published book that goes nowhere.

So the other thing is you have to make sure you have enough of an audience that you can move some copies.

Boxer?

Right.

And they killed him.

Spoiler, sorry.

Well, yeah, there's a lot of that in this book about the people who were like, I'm not, you're not going to break me.

Like I am bigger than this.

I remember the day I woke up on New Year's and there was a present under my pillow and it was like, holy shit.

Because Ded Moroz left it.