What would happen if politics/psychology didn't prevent us from facing the truth?

[UndercoverElephant]

I have realised that rather than being scared of mentioning truth, or anything else, I need to write about all of the things being discussed here. Biggest possible picture, with no fear of what I'll be accused of. And don't worry about who the target audience is.

[Catweazle]

I have realised that rather than being scared of mentioning truth, or anything else, I need to write about all of the things being discussed here. Biggest possible picture, with no fear of what I'll be accused of. And don't worry about who the target audience is.

Write a logical and reasoned book and the target audience will select themselves, you'll have gained their respect and retained your integrity. Perhaps more important, you'll have no problems in writing future books because all your past work can be justified as being the most logical analysis of information that was available at the time.

[UndercoverElephant]

I have realised that rather than being scared of mentioning truth, or anything else, I need to write about all of the things being discussed here. Biggest possible picture, with no fear of what I'll be accused of. And don't worry about who the target audience is.

Write a logical and reasoned book and the target audience will select themselves, you'll have gained their respect and retained your integrity. Perhaps more important, you'll have no problems in writing future books because all your past work can be justified as being the most logical analysis of information that was available at the time.

That feels like it ought to be true. But it isn't the way book publishers think. Non-fiction books are usually aimed at a specific market -- certainly the successful ones are.