I have always wanted to tell someone that my occupation/profession was a novelist, but that time hasn't come yet. I'm still more or less unpublished when it comes to creative fiction (meaning I've been published in newspapers and magazines as part of nonfiction stories). My wife always had the goal of being published before she was twenty, and she reached that goal on May 29th, 2015 when she self-published a short collection of poems through Amazon. I turned twenty over a month ago, and am still yet to be really published. I have goals however, and I am hoping to self-publish before I start college classes again at the end of September.
My wife and I are working together to publish a collection of eight short stories. At this point, we have titled it "What It All Means: The Red Collection". She will write four short stories, and I will write four. The themes are: Love, Guilt, Honor, and Blood. At this time, we have a number of short stories written and are trying to decide which ones to include in the collection, as well as rewrite a few of the rawer ones.
I know this isn't a novel, but this is a sure start. I'm also creating a website from scratch to publicize our work. Then I'm crossing my fingers and hoping it all takes off from there. And even if it doesn't, I have other stories in the works, and can always shoot to be professionally published by the time I'm thirty.
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