It's not your brain, it's just the flame

Musings on fame

So you may have heard I had a book come out recently.

It’s doing pretty well. (I tried out different punctuations for that sentence just now: compare “It’s doing pretty well.” “It’s doing pretty well?” and “It’s doing pretty well!” in terms of affect; I chose between them on the basis of fact, and absence of inflection, because while I am confused (?) a…