Great to see you going down this route. Trad publishing is dying, but before the corpse crumbles to dust it is just going to plain stink for a while. Pace yourself, love what you do, keep experimenting and I am sure you will get where you want to go eventually. Whenever you feel glum just remember Amazon and hundreds of professional creatives incinerated 800 million dollars making the abomination that was the first season of rings of power. If they can fuck up that much, and still go back to do it again, then you and me are not doing so bad by comparison.
Writing from yourself at different life stages is precious stuff, even if it isn't as objectively "good". You did things in your writing at 16 that you couldnt reproduce today if you tried. I wonder if there is a way to filter the manuscript that teenage you wrote and interleave it with your level of writing skill today to combine the best of both worlds?
Most of my published stories are available in the main stores, and if you use the link above you can see which store each story is available in.
My main thing right now is Who Killed The Humans? - a dark sci-fi comedy collection. That comes out March 5 next year and I'm trying to get 100 pre-orders for it so Amazon thinks I'm popular and cool when it comes out.
Great to see you going down this route. Trad publishing is dying, but before the corpse crumbles to dust it is just going to plain stink for a while. Pace yourself, love what you do, keep experimenting and I am sure you will get where you want to go eventually. Whenever you feel glum just remember Amazon and hundreds of professional creatives incinerated 800 million dollars making the abomination that was the first season of rings of power. If they can fuck up that much, and still go back to do it again, then you and me are not doing so bad by comparison.
Unlike them, I've never fucked up.
Well, maybe hosting the first WBTH paperback on Amazon was a setback, but I've fixed that now!
Writing from yourself at different life stages is precious stuff, even if it isn't as objectively "good". You did things in your writing at 16 that you couldnt reproduce today if you tried. I wonder if there is a way to filter the manuscript that teenage you wrote and interleave it with your level of writing skill today to combine the best of both worlds?
My goal is to print both inside the same book, when I am 36.
Because I will be famous then and people will want it!
Wonderful! So how do I read some of your stuff?
Hi Rhonda :)
You can read my best stuff by buying it on https://linktr.ee/phillipcarter/shop
Most of my published stories are available in the main stores, and if you use the link above you can see which store each story is available in.
My main thing right now is Who Killed The Humans? - a dark sci-fi comedy collection. That comes out March 5 next year and I'm trying to get 100 pre-orders for it so Amazon thinks I'm popular and cool when it comes out.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CWMW2Z98
I do make the occassional story and poem free (such as on this substack, or on bookfunnel) and you'll find out here when that happens.