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Should I have had a sensitivity reader review my book?

7 March 2023

3:23 PM

7 March 2023

3:23 PM

Reason magazine reported last summer on the rise of sensitivity readers, and publishers have made headlines for their plans to release sanitized versions of Roald Dahl’s and Ian Fleming’s works. I’m not sure what’s more depressing, the fact that publishers are hiring sensitivity readers to purify these books or the fact that I probably should have had one review my books before they were published.

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