Mostly: if you have a good reason for going your way, stick to it. But also consider if some of their feedback might make the book better.

This is a hard process. Wish you lots of luck!

and see if you want to do something about the latter.
It can also be that their frame of reference is different from yours (they're a different demographic, are used to reading other genres, etc.) so their feedback may not be as useful.

it's very hard to reject feedback at this stage, from my own experience. I think it's useful to think about not the solutions that they're offering (e.g., change the ending to xx) but about the limitations they see in the book (e.g., maybe this subplot is not resolved at the end) +

It's definitely allowed to reject criticism that doesn't serve your work! If you're sure that those changes won't make your book better or will undermine what you're trying to do, don't do them. You want feedback that will make the book into more of what it is, not less.

Epstein met with Chomsky more than once, usually with disgraced sex pest Lawrence Krauss in tow. Chomsky's responses to the inane and brain-dead questions often posed by Epstein were friendly. Chomsky was in touch with Epstein until right before the latter man died in prison.

thank you

that's a lovely amount of success I hope you get there soon <3

Write the comic books also? Like Rainbow Lowell with Carry on Simon?

I’m living a ghost of a life. I may never eat normally again. And it makes it so hard to watch people expose themselves to Covid over and over knowing that THIS could be not even the outcome, but some kind of midpoint.

Please do not get this disease, and please do not give it to anyone else.

The Bluest Eye changed me too, though I wish I'd found it earlier; so adding all these to my TBR.

TERFs are "feminist" in the same way the Nazis were "socialist": As a cover for stupid rubes.

And gender criticals in general have fascist personality traits: Petty middle-class revanchism, obsession with hierarchy & order, seeing "others" not as indviduals but projections of their grievances etc.

that's creating fictional characters, not... writing letters of the alphabet or something. also, there's one free seat, you have till Monday to send in scholarship applications!