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One informal rule to see if this is the case is whether the author's name is the same size or bigger than the title on the front cover. If it is, you can safely bet the author falls under this trope. Publishing tends to be an industry of marginal profits (the book that sells has to pay for the ten that flop) so when you have an author who sells thousands or millions of copies on their name alone, why would you spend money editing their work?
[[Protection From Editors]] can also foster in some minds a feeling that they are also, by extension, given Protection From ''Critics'' as well, which results in great displeasure whenever any criticism is raised -- even if that criticism is constructive, well-meant, and particularly if it is ''valid''. Expect [[Take That, Critics!|snide attacks on anyone who dares criticise them]] to follow.
[[Web Comics]] and other [[Web Original|online media]] have a special risk of suffering from this. On the Internet, one can gather a fanbase with no editor whatsoever, and if you start listening to that fanbase praising you unconditionally, you're just asking for trouble.
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