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I take it you do what I do and put a thread you want to respond to on a new tab, then promptly forget about it, only to realize several days later you never responded?

Also correct. With that being said, he could have just refused to let the publisher have his way with his book.
It's why everything is so shit now. No good writers will let the publisher fuck up their story to shove degeneracy in it, so the publishers have to find someone who can't write to write the same story.