Traditional commercial publishers acted as strong gatekeepers. They chose which stories could be printed, distributed and promoted, often with heavy filters based on market assumptions. Editing, design and promotion were bundled inside a business model that left most people as consumers rather than co creators. In peer and community supported publishing, those roles do not disappear. They are redistributed and made more porous. Story Gardeners step into the spaces once occupied by professional editors, producers and marketers, but their loyalty is to the storytellers and the communities, not to a catalogue. They help many small works exist instead of a few large ones. They are comfortable with imperfect but honest outputs. They treat Living Guides not as products but as evolving toolkits made by and for the people who use them.