I didn't do more than get a copyeditor to look over the text of the Elcenia books before self-publishing them. I would probably go the extra mile if we're talking published published, but my tolerance for Executive Meddling is negligible, so it'd have to be more like pointing things out that I might want to fix so I can fix them than changing things without my participation. And it would have to be more about wording, pruning or adding exposition, etc. than about macroscopic plot or character issues, because I don't know how to touch those in a complete work without doing a whole lot more work than I'm willing to or having things fall apart like wet tissue paper.

My most recent conventional employment was being the administrative manager at MetaMed, but I quit a few months ago, and now I am basically a house spouse, the "spouse" part pending till September. I'd take conventional employment if it dressed up pretty and knocked on my door with a bouquet of flowers (I have informed e.g. Louie that I exist, am unemployed, and like money) but it's not urgent. Irregularly, people will pay me to do things like write commissions (I am pretty bad about delivering in a timely manner though, I have one like half finished...) or make menus. Sometimes I get donations through my websites or somebody buys an Elcenia book.

I think I'd need to know more about how this hypothetical works. Are my personal friends and family safe too even though you've likely never heard of their writing, or do I need to expend slots on all my favorite people who happen to have written fiction (or whatever the "author" threshold is)? Is Stephenie Meyer safe (because you liked Luminosity) or is she in the line of fire and something weird happens to Luminosity if she gets got? Are huge linchpins of influence like Tolkien safe just because they'd have knock-on effects beyond their own works, or are those knock-on effects part of the point?