“What kind of writing pays the best?” “Ransom notes.” —⁠Elmore Leonard’s Get Shorty (novel and film)   Samuel Johnson famously observed, “No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.” I am sure the learned doctor uttered that mainly in jest, for even the authors of potboilers must have their pride. To labor for […]

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