I'm releasing a new book later this month! Ask me autistic questions and I will answers them. - Bonus points for whoever finds my pen name and my own series of books.

How easy is it to get shit published these days? And how hard is it to think of a crappy pen name that isn't already taken or self-dox fodder?
It depends on your definition of "get published". If we are talking academic papers is really really fucking hard nowadays, and you need to get close to 70 citations until it is considered "published", same as any non fiction book.

If it is fiction you can either publish on Amazon, Google or any other site that host ebooks/epubs (like wattpad). If you want to go the route of having a housing publisher then you, as a new author, need to fork up serious cash upfront because not only you'll have to pay for the ISBN (the number that catalogue books across the world) but you'll also have to pay for the printed copies, the marketing and whatever else they charge you.

Is easy for shit to be published (like my book) but really fucking hard if you want to publish good stuff.
 
What's your stance on the Oxford Comma?
I use it, but only because I have a background in Journalism so it became second nature when writing news. When writing news you must write it concisely and to the point, so having terms that are loose and needed a conjunction to work is (Ex: "the cow is under the table and is fat" to "the cow is under the table, and fat.") sometimes necessary to format your articles in a professional manner.

Also a soldier from how distant of a past, confederate, or legionnaire?
Crusades. But my novel also has a sort of time travelling element that interconnects the whole mythos of the story, I also used what is called the unreliable narrator when I needed exposition about certain lore to make it more interesting.
 
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