Well, this is absurd.
Aside from all the obvious wrongness, I'm reasonably certain that I can pick apart their stats (to the extent that they share them 🙄) and may take a crack at it if I get the time...
I wrote a rather cranky blog post about that author's guild survey that's been going around: rznicolet.com/2026/06/10/y...
TLDR, implying "nobody's buying books because libraries, and now authors are poor" is ridiculous, not least because there's a complete lack of longitudinal data.
#libraries
Rachel Reddick / RZ Nicolet
The Mariners are the only MLB team that has never even _appeared_ in the World Series, ever.
So. That one.
as with some other books, I dislike the implication that humans need outside help to fix themselves.
Then again, happy, content people wouldn't have a lot of wishes for a jinn, so...
Given the quality of T. Kingfisher's other work that I've enjoyed, I'm 100% sure that this horror novel is amazing.
I'm also 100% sure that:
1. It is not for me (pure horror on this scale is way too much for me)
2. I should not (and will not) look up _any_ screwworm pictures