{"id":21029,"date":"2025-03-22T11:33:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T17:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=21029"},"modified":"2025-03-22T11:33:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T17:33:31","slug":"a-fascinating-take-on-brandon-sandersons-winds-of-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/a-fascinating-take-on-brandon-sandersons-winds-of-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"A fascinating take on Brandon Sanderson&#8217;s Winds of Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5tWotE8CiAg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Really interesting take on the publishing industry. This is politically incorrect, but I think it&#8217;s related to the way that publishing has become dominated by liberal women. The Nonsense-Free Editor has a lot of great videos about that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are lots of great books in the indie publishing scene that are not &#8220;Potempkin villages,&#8221; as this BookTuber calls them&#8230; but how is one to find them? When we finally solve that question, there will be a resurgence of great writing and great art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really interesting take on the publishing industry. This is politically incorrect, but I think it&#8217;s related to the way that publishing has become dominated by liberal women. The Nonsense-Free Editor has a lot of great videos about that. There are lots of great books in the indie publishing scene that are not &#8220;Potempkin villages,&#8221; as&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/a-fascinating-take-on-brandon-sandersons-winds-of-truth\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A fascinating take on Brandon Sanderson&#8217;s Winds of Truth<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1837,78,914,1608,529,1011,1040,670,1568],"class_list":["post-21029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-booktube","tag-brandon-sanderson","tag-discoverability","tag-diversity","tag-indie-publishing","tag-social-justice","tag-social-media","tag-traditional-publishing","tag-wokeism","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-5tb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21030,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21029\/revisions\/21030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}