Sadly no drugs and no rock ‘n roll.
Although as a ghostwriter I have “participated” in some of the weirdest markets out there.
From adult toys, to niche gifts/vinyls that would get you cancelled, to what salad do you eat so that you have maximum energy.
(I’m not a fan of salad tbh)
Ghostwriters are the brains behind a “guru” figure, brand or small business and everything in between. We get paid a handsome fee…
But the biggest down side is you don’t get your flowers. You’re forever in the shadows collecting the cash. Nobody will know that you’ve had your hand in a massive project.
And so it is.
I don’t regret it one minute and if I’m in a pinch I get that type of work easily.
The celebrity life ain’t for me though, but I do want to own my words while either terrifying you with them or inspiring you with them.
So with 2025 around the corner I’ve decided to become my own Publishing House.
Traditional publishing sucks ass. Unless you’ve got a mega established audience like Stephen King. If you wrote a banger of a novel, it would get edited down to what they want.
They will sanitise it. They will rip from it your very soul you’ve bound to it.
I’m not about that life and I’m sure you’re not either…
(So this whole publishing house thing, I’ll figure it out) and I’m going to be writing what I love, which is Sci-Fi / Horror and overall pulp styled dime novel content.
Frank Gruber who wrote The Pulp Jungle was one of my inspirations.
I know this year is nearly done and I’ll finish off this email with this;
Mega thank you for those of you who have stuck around when “The Silly Goose Society” was a thing. It was short lived unfortunately (Cause guess that British law doesn’t realise that Parody and Satire law is a thing…) Anywho…
And I’m glad you stick around and read about my day to day shenanigans.
If I’ve made you laugh, cry or irrationally angry. Hit reply and tell me.
Let’s make the last month of 2024 awesome.
The Pulp Jungle – Frank Gruber (Archive dot org)
Stephen Walker