Benefits Of Entrepreneurship:
What are the benefits or pitfalls of entrepreneurship at your age?

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By Wendy C Allen
eelkat_red_scarf.jpgWendy Christine Allen, 2019, able to sit up in a chair for the first time in years, and able to raise up my arm and wiggle fingers. This was when I started playing Witcher 3 on Twitch as part of my physical therapy to regain finger movement. Playing Witcher 3 daily from 2016 to 2019, is how I regained the use of my thumb and two for fingers on my right hand... it is also why I stopped playing Witcher 3 in 2019, once I had strengthen my two forefingers enough to start typing again.

Wendy Christine Allen, Old Orchard Beach's Autistic Author, Artist, Illustrator, & Art Car Designer

Counting Down to the September 23, 2028 50th Anniversary of my first published book (September 23, 1978)

If you are here looking for The Twighlight Manor series, The Crystonite Wars series, The Wild Years series, The White Rock Asylum for the Criminally Insane series, The Twisted Tales series, the Captured By a MerMan series, The Space Dock 13 series, The Kats of Planet Ptarmagin series, the stories about Miss Citten the Eel-Kat, or the stories about Etiole... ALL of those series were combined and consolidated into The Adventures of Quaraun the Insane Pink Necromancer series in 2014, so ALL the different series, are now under one series title.

List of the published titles still in print:

The Index of over three thousand stories in The Pink Necromancer series

What the series is about, for those new here:

The introduction to The Pink Necromancer Series. 

If you want some stories to get you started in The Pink Necromancer series, reading these first will give you a good introduction to the 3 main characters:

My Elves Are JellyFish...and I asked Google AI and ChatGPT 5.6 what they thought of this.

As requested, my daily writing prompt series is now available print paperback editions on Amazon.

There are 20 volumes of this writing prompt series currently planned and in varying stages of finishing, hopefully all 20 will be published by the end of 2026. I likely will do a 2nd series of writing prompt books in 2027.

The first of the Visual Novels/Video Games for The Adventures of Quaraun the Inane/The Pink Necromancer series is published and available on Itch.io, there are 3 more planned for release in 2026, 6 more planned for release in 2027, and the big 60-hour 80k word 150 page one (Quaraun Goes To the Fair) is planned for a 2028 release.

There is a Pink Necromancer card game and a Pink Necromancer board game, as well as a Pink Necromancer table top RPG supliment for Dungeons and Dragons, all in the works, and to be released over the next couple of years as well.

Health update: August 4, 2026 - in recovery for 6 months+ (at least until mid-January 2027...all book and video game releases are pushed back at least 6 months) see video below for why...
@eelkat

health update #maine #disabilityawareness #wheelchairlife #wheelchairvlogger #multiplesclerosis

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@eelkat Health update: #chickenpox #bellspalsy #RamsayHuntsyndrome #paralysis #recovery ♬ original sound - Wendy C Allen | 📚 Author
@eelkat

I seem to have had another stroke (during the night while I was asleep?) #stroke #paralysis

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Update Sept 3, 2026:

I am able to get around enough to take Koko to dog park... today is 29 days since getting out of hospital. My diet is still mostly liquid, but im eating some solid food again, but its like rice or soft mushy baby food type stuff because I still can not chew yet, though I can swallow again. My jaw is still not functioning good so im having trouble talking still. So there's been slight improvement to my mouth, throat, and jaw, but, zero improvement to my eye, which is a major concern, be Im almost fully blind right now. im legally blind since birth in my left eye, so I have no ability to fall back on using my left eye. My right eye is the one injured and my vision in it is "40% decreased" according to my doctor, but it wasn't good vision to begin with, and right now my right eye is not much different from my legally blind left eye. Which I why I have to have someone drive my car for me instead of me driving my car myself right now, which is very frustrating, because, being a female, I had to fight for over twenty years to be allowed to drive. I started sneaking out at age 31 and dressing as a man to go to Old Orchard Beach high school to get a ged, because us females are not allowed to go to school. And i was 37 years old when snuck out to the DMV and got a driver's permit and started going to college. I was 42 and 8 months pregnant when my family found out I was going to college and thats when I was punished by the backhoe driving over my house and my spine broken with a golf club and my baby born right then and killed with same golf club. So it's very frustrating now, so soon after finally being able to drive , to now not be able to drive because of an eye injury, especially after 14 years of being paralyzed from the golf club and not being allowed to have a wheelchair, again, because i am female and we females are simply not allowed to do anything. I hate the culture I was born into. I wish I had the freedom to go to school and drive a car the way American women do. I wish having my spine broken with a golf club and my baby killed with a golf club and a backhoe driven over my house was not how men in my family punishment women in my family for learning to read and write. Its so frustrating not being able to to drive again, so soon after 14 years being paralyzed, and being paralyzed by the golf club was the punishment for getting a driver's license back in 2013 after 30 years of men not letting me have one. I hate my family's culture and how they treat us women.

I get so sick of Americans telling me how they wish they could be a Gypsy… they are either misogynist woman hating pigs, or delusional idiots who haven't got a clue how shittily we Gypsy women are treated by Gypsy men, because no one in their righ mind who knows anything about Gypsy culture would ever want to be part of it. I hate that I was born a Gypsy. 

update sept 7, 2026

"You would not make a good teacher"... what does that mean, and why are there so many people on Railroad Ave and Western Ave and Cutts St why walk up to me and say that to me?

I find it very confusing. I have low functioning Autism (the Rain Man type) and so i have very little understanding of words beyond the basic ones, and i never went to to school, so I never learned maths or sciences, and I only had remedial classes at Southern Maine Community College, because I did not have an education to enroll with regular, I was there taking every reading and writing class they had to learn how to read and write, and also took speaking classes to learn how to talk (i spoke Shetland Scottish language because that was language my grandmother spoke but she died when I was 8 so I only knew that language to speak and write, and I was 37 when I went to college and 42 when I learned English speaking and I still cant speak English good yet), all the other classes I took were art painting and cooking.

So the phrase "You would not make a good teacher" makes no sense to me because it seems to imply that I am trying to be a teacher, but I don't have anything close to the education ti be a teacher, and im not trying to be a teacher. So I don't know why people keep saying this phrase to me and I assume it must have some sort of a slang meaning, but I can't figure out what it could be of why do these people keep saying it to me.

see video below for more information: 


@eelkat "You would not make a good teacher"... what does that mean, and why are there so many people on Railroad Ave and Western Ave and Cutts St why walk up to me and say that to me? I find it very confusing. I have low functioning Autism (the Rain Man type) and so i have very little understanding of words beyond the basic ones, and i never went to to school, so I never learned maths or sciences, and I only had remedial classes at Southern Maine Community College, because I did not have an education to enroll with regular, I was there taking every reading and writing class they had to learn how to read and write, and also took speaking classes to learn how to talk (i spoke Shetland Scottish language because that was language my grandmother spoke but she died when I was 8 so I only knew that language to speak and write, and I was 37 when I went to college and 42 when I learned English speaking and I still cant speak English good yet), all the other classes I took were art painting and cooking. So the phrase "You would not make a good teacher" makes no sense to me because it seems to imply that I am trying to be a teacher, but I don't have anything close to the education ti be a teacher, and im not trying to be a teacher. So I don't know why people keep saying this phrase to me and I assume it must have some sort of a slang meaning, but I can't figure out what it could be of why do these people keep saying it to me. #mainelife #biddefordmaine #maine #disabilitytiktok #Biddeford ♬ original sound Wendy C Allen | 📚 Author

update Sept 15, 2026:

I have some slight movement in some my fingers again again after over a decade being paralyzed

you remember how I used to be a professional doll making, pattern designer, and embroiderer, back before I became paralized and before my son was murdered and being the backhoe drove over my house?

all my equipment, sewing machines, ect were all destroyed by the backhoe driving over my house, and I have been quardepelegic for over a decade because of it so could not use my hands to sew or draw or embroider, and so only continued to do my writing of novels since then because I could do that with dragon dictation software,

well, since 2016, I been playing Witcher 3 and don't starve video games on twitch livestream, one hand two fingers, as part of my therapy to regain nerve and muscle use of my fingers, and now after 10 years of that, I have somewhat more movement in my fingers and im thinking maybe I can try to do embroidery and doll making again, but not sure, anyways, now im rebuying all of my sewing and embroidery equipment that the backhoe destroyed when it drove over my house, and hopefully I can use my hand enough to embroider again.

waiting for stuff to arrive in mail, so soon I should find out if ten years of twitch gaming has given me enough muscle strength to use my fingers to embroider again.

update to the previous video, answering viewer question about lack of hospital vs broken spine

Wheelchair Fundraiser... I need to upgrade to a power wheelchair, the manual one just isn't enough anymore. But the power wheelchair is $25k. Yes, twenty five thousand dollars. Wtf? I can get a car for a quarter that price, why are wheelchairs so damned expensive? That's more money then I make in five years, so I need to start a fundraiser for it.

"What are the benefits or pitfalls of entrepreneurship at your age? Do you think you have an advantage over older people starting out so young? Is it better to start a business so young? Is it not better to start out young, before buying a house or having a family, when you have less to lose?"

So young?

This question comes from a face to face interview and was asked in reference to my business plan for starting a food truck. Before answering this question, I asked how old the asker thought I was. The answer I got back was "you look 19".

Do I?

Uhm...no. Way off. Try added about 20 years to that guess. The question implied however (via a long winded explanation to say as much) that people in their 20s are better suited to starting a small business than someone later in life and therefor youth was a benefit of entrepreneurship. Of course they had slanted their question in that direction ahead of time, under the false assumption of thinking I was only 19, so who knows how they would have worded it knowing my correct age.

But this got me to thinking: Is youth really a benefit in entrepreneurship?  How young is too young? How old is too old? Does age even matter at all? And more importantly, how does this effect authors, who are in fact themselves entrepreneurs? Will a younger author have more success than an older author or vice versa?

I've known people who started out at a young age getting into huge credit card debts than had to spend their lives in Section 8 apartments because they were never able to get a house or even a good job because of bad credit history. Very sad.

As to having less to lose when young. Yeah, age really has nothing to do with it. When I was young my family had a ton of money. My dad owned 2 businesses AND worked a job for someone else, AND was a volunteer fireman. He was one of those got-to-be-busy-every-second types. My mom at the same time owned a brick&mortar store in downtown Old Orchard Beach.

My dad's income was $37,000, an incredibly large income in 1975 when the average income was $7,500. We had everything - literally my parents bought me a horse for my 4th birthday, I was wearing mink coats as a teenager, I bought my first car when I was 8 years old, didn't matter that I couldn't drive it, heck, no, I wanted a car just to put in my rose garden and pretend to drive it - I still have it, it's still sitting in my garden 30 years later! And by 8 years old I was already a multi-published author and in the process of setting up The Twighlight Manor Press. Yep. I was 8 years old when I founded/incorporated the publishing house which I still run today all these decades later.

Looking back I think maybe I was sort of like Verruca Salt as a kid. Starting mini-businesses was a thing I did because I liked doing it. I've started dozens of "businesses" over the years, but never tried to make any money with any of them. If they made money fine, in not who care, I didn't need the money. I call them "hobby ventures" because it was me taking my hobbies to big scales.

And than Hurricane Katrina hit Old Orchard. Hit us hard. If it hadn't just wiped out New Orleans on it's way up here the damage it did to OOB would have made national news - 80 families saw their houses leveled, just completely flattened - it wasn't even on the local news, the town applied for emergency disaster, couldn't get it because Katrina had hit EVERY SINGLE STATE on the East Coast so bad that by the time it reached us up here in Maine FEMA, HUD and the rest were out of funds. Local Red Cross was closed because they had packed up and headed to New Orleans a week earlier - Katrina got stuck in Saco Bay and dumped 9 days and 9 nights of rain on us.

The town hall went under water - do you know what OOB looks like? do you know how far away from the beach the town hall is? on the top of a hill - that's how high the water was - people died - people in MY FAMILY died - 80 houses - including ours - were literally lifted off the land and washed away - 80 families - most with children were homeless, several of them are STILL homeless RIGHT NOW 7 years later, because York Country doesn't have a single shelter - not even one.  People lost businesses and lively hood, many became disabled for life and will never work again. My dad was in a coma on full life support (on a machine that cost $13,000 a day) for 6 months, and lost all of his jobs and businesses, and spent 2 year relearning how to talk and walk and use his hands. His medical bills, topped $3million. And there were 80 families is the same situation as us - homeless, dead, dieing, and not able to find help. Hurricane Katrina did this, right here, in Old Orchard Beach, Maine and yet not one single newspaper or news station even mentioned what happened AT ALL! Did you know those 80 families are still today, 7 years later on a wait list for HUDs emergency disaster relief housing vouchers to get them in Section8 apartments?

I was homeless 7 years. I lived under a 8x6' tarp without running water, toilet, or electricity for most of those 7 years - including through 3 blizzards, 5 more hurricanes, and an ice storm. People often ask me why did I start glueing things to my car? Short answer: it was me home decorating after I moved out from under the tarp and into my car. It was as simple as that. I now live in a 22' motorhome. My dad's name JUST came up as next in line for an emergency housing voucher from HUD this summer - June 2013.

So my point? Well, at 20 years old I had a hell of a lot to lose. I never took any big risks, my mini-businesses were all small easily cast off if they failed. The only one I held on to was the publishing house, simply because I absolutely loved that job,  and when Hurricane Katrina hit, it was a good thing I had it, because it was the only income I had for several years. It only brought in $200 to $600 a month, not a good income at all, but if I hadn't had that I'd been with no income at all and $200 a month is a heck of a lot compared to ZERO a month.

I never risked anything because I didn't think I could survive losing everything. Hurricane Katrina taught me otherwise. I literally lost everything in less than 30 seconds when a wave crashed over our house and took it with it (and we ain't no where's near the beach, I'll tell you - we are on the outskirts up by the Ross Rd!

Any body remember that big huge egg farm on Portland Ave - the one with all the giant poultry barns - you know where the empty lot now is, no house, no barns, nothing - that was us, and that's why the buildings are gone - Katrina didn't just take our house - it took our barns and livestock too -  last thing you expect up here on the corner of Portland ave and Ross Rd is the ocean knocking on your front door. We were well out of the flood zone. but we had a brook on our land that dumps into the ocean and the ocean sent a back wave flash flood inland up the brook, and that's how it hit us.) Me and my brothers were outside when it happened or we'd probably be dead now, my dad was in the house when the wave hit it, he nearly died, and he'd still not recovered, he can barely get around even today.

Katrina opened my eyes. I technically only "needed" to be homeless and living under the tarp for 6 months, I was perfectly able to get into housing 6 months later, but I'm strange and I decided to remain homeless willingly, after a few really snobby neighbors treated my family really bad once we were homeless. I'm an author, well known in some circles (one of my non-fiction  books got really famous) and before Katrina a lot of people wanted to be my "friend" just so they could say to their other friend, "Hey I know her!" Becoming homeless, revealed their true colors, when they suddenly "couldn't be seen hanging out with a homeless person". So I willfully remained homeless, even long after I no longer needed to be, just to see how other people reacted to homeless people.

But thing of it is, this whole situation, every bit of it, changed me - A LOT - I am a hugely different person today than I was 8 years ago. 8 years ago I would have been too worried about losing my house, my belongs, to take the risk of a business that could become a full time income, rather than a part-time hobby income. Hobby businesses are "safe" no-risk.

So in answering the question: when I was in my 20s I had a lot to lose and I would not have taken big risks. In my 30s I did lose everything - but not through a failed business, instead through a flood. In my 40s I no longer see material lose as a risk at and have no issues throwing everything to the wind to start a business. So younger people don't always have less to lose than older people. It really depends on their situation. I think it was losing everything that just doing things I want to do (like rhinestoning my car - I talked about wanting to do that for the past 40 years - never did it, used to worry about what other people would think if I did), rather than waiting and worrying. I think that was the biggest lesson I learned from Katrina - you never know what tomorrow may bring, you could be financially stable, no money worries, take no risks, and still lose everything, so you might as well take risks, do the things you want to do, because you may not be alive tomorrow and than it'll be too late to do the things you wanted to do.

"What are the benefits of entrepreneurship at your age?"

Well, I think one of the major advantages a person my age (40s) has is experience.  Not that a younger person doesn’t have experiences, because heck, a kid who survived Hurricane Katrina has a lot more experience than an elderly person who never faced any disaster at all. So, I’m not saying that age ALWAYS means more experience. But as a general rule someone in their 40s has gone through more life lessons. But having experience is a huge benefit in entrepreneurship.

A person in their 40s has gone through marriages, divorces, births, deaths, jobs, careers, wars, etc, while a person in their 20s is usually only just starting to discover those things.

A person in their 40s has also had time to test out many things, figure out what they like, what they don’t like, made lots of mistakes and knows what mistakes not to make again, while a person in their 20s is just starting to test those waters.

If they are like me and have started lots of mini-businesses over the years, by the time you are my age, you start to see the pattern of what works and what doesn’t, so you start making fewer mistakes.

And if you are like me, someone who has had one business for years (since 1983 in my case) and work closely with your clients (in my case readers) after a while you get to know what they like, what they want, what they expect, and you can adjust your business to meet their needs. But this takes time and someone younger will not yet have that kind of knowledge/research into what their customers want.

Of course, too much experience can be a bad thing too, if you reach the point of “Well I know that won’t work, I already tried, I’m not going to bother trying again.”If you have to try 1,001 ways that don't work before you reach the 1 way that does work, than so be it. But you'll never succeed if you give up and stop trying.

Probably one of the larger disadvantages a person my age has is not growing up with the technology (computers, internet, phones, etc) that is pretty mandatory to run (most) businesses in this day and age. I’ve had to learn this stuff, make an effort to go out of my way to learn it. It wasn’t something I was taught as a kid and I still don’t own a phone. When I was a kid, there were only a few houses on our street that had phones, and those were party lines that had to wait for a switchboard operator to plug you in from one line to another. I was about 10 when they started running standard phone lines on poles through the neighborhood. (of course in the 1970s there weren’t even 1,000 year round residents -there are 7,000 today - and Portland Ave was a dirt road back than with exactly 5 houses on it and now it’s the main road through Old Orchard compete with two lanes and a yellow stripe and the last time our house was renumbered it came out at 146.) It was a big thing people getting phones brought into their houses. I never saw the point of putting one in. Now people have cell phones they take with them, and I’m still looking at them and asking: Why? What possible use can a phone have? Why on God’s green earth do you need to talk to other people? How in heck can you talk to a person if you can’t see them? I don’t get it.

Of course, this is the perspective of an Autistic person with bad hearing since childhood, “hears” predominantly through reading lips, and near mutism resulting in communication through pen and paper, not spoken words. So yeah, phones, not exactly a useful item for someone like me. My boyfriend has been trying to teach me how to use a phone for about 10 years now - he hasn’t gotten very far. He progressed in leaps and bounds with the invention of Skype however - online phones with video so you can see who you are talking to. I was able to learn Skype in spite of my difficulties learning phones.

I think older folks are set in their ways, thus “teaching an old dog new tricks” is close to impossible unless that person is self motivated to learn. Something has to make them WANT to change otherwise they won’t. So I can see how this can become a huge stumbling block for older business starters, and the older they are, the harder change will be.

Are there other benefits of entrepreneurship at my age? Probably. I suppose more to the point for my readers the question should be not "What are the benefits of entrepreneurship?" but rather "What are the benefits of publishing house start up?" or maybe "What are the benefits of being a self-published author?" or even "What are the benefits of being a traditionally published author?" For the purposes of this answer they are all one in the same thing are they not? I think so. After all, being an author is running your own business, whether you are self-published, traditionally published or go the long haul and start a publishing house to publish other authors as well, and therefore no matter which road you take to get your book published you are still an entrepreneur. So for the sake of simplicity we shall continue to use the phrase: "What are the benefits of entrepreneurship?"

So far I have looked at the benefits of entrepreneurship through a very narrow focused and limited view. The reason for this being that the original question was much more narrow focused, asking directly about my personal life, and I answered that, but does it really help my readers in general? Not so much. It is for that reason which I am now going to alter the original question (which was far longer and more detailed that what little of it I had posted here for you) so that now it reads as two simple questions:

"What are the benefits of entrepreneurship?"

and

"What are the pitfalls of entrepreneurship?"

The benefits of entrepreneurship are many. Let's look at a few shall we?

For myself, the benefit I rank highest on the list would be the ability to control one's own life. You are the maker of your own destiny. You are the boss. There is no one over you telling you what to do. I don't like being pushed around. I don't like bullies. I don't like taking orders. I don't like people giving me "My way or the highway" commands. It is very important to me, to have the freedom to do things the way I want to do them without someone lording over me, breathing down my neck, and bombarding me with all the negative reasons why it is wrong, wrong, wrong. Thus the biggest benefit of entrepreneurship (in my view) is the ability to control one's own life.

Of course, there are many who will see this as one of the biggest pitfalls, because many folks don't want the responsibility of having to be in control and doing it all. If you find yourself needing someone to look up to, someone to justify your ideas, someone to be there to pat your back each step of the way telling you, you are doing it right, than seriously,  entrepreneurship (working for yourself, being the author of your career 100%) is not for you. You will not be happy managing everything from the biggest tax bill to the smallest paper cut. And that's okay. Entrepreneurship is not for every body. Some people love it, most don't. A few take the lead, but most would rather follow. Just know right now that if you are the type of person who would rather follow the leader, you will find yourself very unhappy in your career choice of being an author. You should decide if you really burn with the passion of authorship or do you simple like "the idea" of being an author?

But really, who doesn't sometimes want the independence and dream of being their own boss and making all the important decisions? When you succeed you take all the credit. Of course when you fail, there's no one but yourself to blame, but isn't that worth the risk of success?

In this same vein is freedom and flexibility. Authors, being entrepreneurs can work whenever they want, wherever they want, and however they want. You as an author can schedule your work hours to spend quality time with family and friends, never miss your child's first steps, never miss another soccer practice, never miss another dance recital, never miss another doctor's appointment. Need to take a 3 week vacation? Guess what, you can do it anytime, and best of all, being a writer, you can take your work with you and work on the road without disrupting the family vacation.

Of course the drawback to all this freedom and flexibility is it's easy to take advantage of it. It's easy to sit back, not do anything, and tell yourself "I'll do it tomorrow." If you are going to succeed as a writer, you have to be firm with yourself, set time tables and schedules and stick with them, otherwise you'll never get anything done.

The second biggest benefit of entrepreneurship, according to me, is originality and creativity. This is the excitement  and joy with comes from the feeling that you can offer a new service, a new product, or as is the case of you as an author: a new story that no one else has ever offered before. Brand new. All original. And created by you. Think about it. You get to "play God" for a few days, creating new worlds, and putting new life into those worlds. The exhilaration that comes from creating brand new never before seen characters and giving them problems to solve, issues to face, and watching them come out on top is beyond anything you can imagine. But than you share those new people with the world by publishing your story and soon others get to share in your joy too. Fabulous. Utterly fabulous. Words simply can not describe it.

This leads to yet another benefit of entrepreneurship which I put very high on the ladder of importance: self-worth, closely followed by self awareness and self-motivation, which when all rolled together equal self-esteem. Self-esteem is one of the best benefits of entrepreneurship, one which many would rank at #1 in importance. Nothing boosts your self-esteem like being your own boss and getting thing done without having to rely on others.

There is a down side to this however, and that is that if you get lazy, slack off, and let your work slide, you'll find yourself failing and your self-esteem falling fast. Don't let this happen. Make sure you set time tables and schedules and stick with them. You got to do the work, and be motivated to do the work, in order to succeed.

I think the benefit of entrepreneurship which many (or even most?) authors are looking to hear about is income and/or salary potential. Unfortunately a large, substantial, or even moderately stable income is not one of the many benefits of entrepreneurship. Yes, you can succeed. Yes, you can make it big. Yes, you can even earn as much as minimum wage if you work hard enough, long enough,. and are able to live off your savings for the first 3 to 5 years before minimum wage earnings start kicking in.

Think being a millionaire is one of the top benefits of entrepreneurship? Think again. Only 3% of entrepreneurs are going to find themselves rolling in millions of extra spending cash. Sure you can earn a million dollars, but 60% of that goes to the IRS right off the top, and them there are expenses, overhead, bills to pay. If you are like most entrepreneurs you'll need an income of $3million a year just to pocket $75,000 in actual earnings, so don't get too hung up on the idea of being a millionaire.

Remember it's YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to withhold your taxes out of your income, you ain't got no boss doing that for you anymore. To be on the safe side of the IRS come tax time, set up a separate bank account, just for paying taxes with, and every time you receive a payday, deposit 60% of your paycheck into that account. Don't touch it. It's not yours. If you spend this money, you'll very likely spend the next 5 to 25 years in prison. In April when it's time to pay your taxes, you'll have the money safely tucked away in this bank account and you'll be able to withdraw it and hand it over to the IRS  and have nothing to worry about.

Sure, there are writers who make lots and lots of money, super fast. Yes, it happens. Yes it happens far more often to self-publishers than to traditional published authors, however it only happens to 3% out of several hundred million authors. Every week hundreds of new titles are released. Every year about 10 of those will become huge money makers.

So don't not become an author to make money. Most authors work at least one part time job to pay their bills, while they slave away at a writing career that pays at best $5,000 a year for 70% of all actively writing authors. Authors earning minimum wage incomes of $24,000 a year are publishing no fewer than 4 new titles (full length 120,000 word novels) a year. If you are looking to get rich quick than you are in the wrong career. Aim for a steady, stable income and you'll do fine, if you work hard.

Remember that when you become an author (regardless of publishing method) you are starting your own business. Starting your own business means that you must be willing to give up the security of a regular paycheck. You really must be obsessively in love with the physical act of writing to be happy as an author, because chances are very high that you will never have a steady income or regular and reliable paycheck ever again. (And Amazon self-publishers have a better chance here as Amazon pays monthly, while publishing houses pay once, twice, or four times a year.)

One last huge pitfall to consider is how your friends and family will perceive you: Lazy, good-for-nothing, unemployed, welfare-bum, and other choice words are going to be tossed in your face FREQUENTLY. Negative and in some cases jealous, people will always be on hand to tell you that you will fail. Every time you release a new book and it doesn't become a best seller, they will be at your shoulder chiming: "I told you so!" and than lecturing you to get off your stupid lazy ass and get a real job like every one else has to do. Believe me, if you want to be an author, you need a thick skin and a place to esacpe from your nosy busybody, holier-than-thou, know-it-all relatives, because they are going to be harping on your case night and day and will never give you a moments peace.


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i just found out there is yet another bizarre rumour going around. where are these wild rumours coming from? who is starting them? and why?

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since I've been flooded with hundreds of messages the past two weeks asking if I still own "the world's most haunted car", yes, and here it is, filmed today May 18, 2026… but my son Xavier is dead, i am crippled and given that people are AGAIN showing up calling my Dodge "haunted", calling my friend "an alien", calling me "transgender", and spreading wild defamation slander connecting me to Stephen King, I think I need to start taking down the contact information of every blogger, podcaster, youtuber, and social media account spreading these rumors, and sue every single one of them for CAUSING my car to be cut in half May 10, 2010, for CAUSING the backhoe that drove over my house August 8, 2013, for CAUSING my son's murder November 14, 2013, for CAUSING me to be crippled and in a wheelchair November 14, 2013, and for CONTINUING to CAUSE harassers to show up in person to harass me near daily, STILL now in 2026. EVERYONE telling you my car is haunted, telling you my friend is an alien, calling my car "the goldeneagle", calling my friend "Etiole", or trying to connect me or my car to Stephen King, is lying to you. They crippled me when I was 8 months pregnant, and a woman with a golf club, severed my spine and bashed my baby's head in, I spent 9 years relearning to walk, and the FBI is 13 years into the murder investigation and not yet identified the attacker who crippled me and killed my baby, both violently with a golf club and the FBI believes that it is friends and family of the woman who did it, are the ones who started and spread the rumors saying my car is haunted, saying I'm an alien abductee, saying all kinds of similar bs about aliens, ufos, ghosts, witchcraft, demons, and Stephen King connections, even though I don't believe in ghosts, aliens, ufos, demons, and had never heard of Stephen King before 30k of his fans showed up in my yard trying to find my car! FBI believes the backhoe driver and the murderer are the same person and it is a developer who wanted my land and so started the Stephen King, ghost, and alien rumors all in an attempt to drive me off my land, and when it didn't work they drove a backhoe over my house, and when that didn't work they crippled me and killed my son. Why are they doing this? How do I get them to stop?

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Do you know who drove this backhoe over my house at 146 Portland Avenue, Old Orchard Beach, Maine on August 8, 2013? If you have any information, please give it to FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322 of the Portland, Maine FBI office.

My house at 146 Portland Ave, Old Orchard Beach, Maine, July 4, 2013, photo taken because we had just finished building a baby room on the back. vs My house August 8, 2013, when the same group of people (yes group, the golf club woman was not alone when she attacked November 14, 2013, nor was she alone with her second attack July 2016.) who murdered my son on November 14, 2013 at Southern Maine Community College and crippled me July 26, 2016 at scarborough WalMart,... they arrived the first time with a backhoe on August 8, 2013, that they used to drive over my house, during a time of day that I normally was home asleep... I had to work a different shift at the Waffle Cone Pizza Food Truck at George's Parking Lot by Bill's Pizza at the OBB Peir, that day, otherwise, I too would be at the bottom of a landfill, along with my house and everything I owned that was also in the house. I was 5 months pregnant at the time and have been homeless for just under 14 years, homeless ever since....

... which means it is now only a few weeks from the 14th anniversary of my son's murder. I was 8 month pregnant November 14, 2013, and a student ay SMCC, and coming out of the Buglight Lighthouse art studio after art class, when a still unidentifiedwoman wielding a golf club attacked me, severed my spine, while I was 8 months pregnant, triggered early labour, then killed my son minutes after he was born.

While accusing me of being transgender, screaming "transvestite freak" and "look at that thing, that's Ken's son in a dress"... while I was 8 months pregnant.

eelkats_house_before_after.jpgMy house at 146 Portland Ave, Old Orchard Beach, Maine, July 4, 2013, photo taken because we had just finished building a baby room on the back. vs My house August 8, 2013, when the same group of people (yes group, the golf club woman was not alone when she attacked November 14, 2013, nor was she alone with her second attack July 2016.) who murdered my son and crippled me, arrived the first time with a backhoe that they used to drive over my house, during a time of day that I normally was home asleep... I had to work a different shift at the Waffle Cone Pizza Food Truck at George's Parking Lot by Bill's Pizza at the OBB Peir, that day, otherwise, I too would be at the bottom of a landfill, along with my house and everything I owned that was also in the house. I was 5 months pregnant at the time and have been homeless for just under 14 years, homeless ever since.

The backhoe driver returned November 14, 2013, armed with a golf club, used it to break my spine and smash my baby's brains out on the ground

On November 14, 2013, my son was murdered. I was 8 months pregnant, leaving my college classroom, and just getting into my car, when 3 strangers, a man and two women, armed with golf clubs leapt out from behind my car screaming "kill or be killed, kill the transvestite freaks, kill them all before they kill us! look at that thing! That is Ken's son, look at how it's dressed! kill the transvestite freaks! kill or be killed"... while the bald man and the red haired woman chanted this over and over, the blonde woman, lunged with the golf club.

She severed my spine, I am now a quadriplegic, and been paralyzed arms and legs, and in a wheelchair for 13 years now. She broke my hips, my knees, my legs, ruptured most of my discs, and shattered three of my vertebrae so bad that the shards of bone acted like glass and embedded themselves into my spinal column nerve bundle.

The attack also triggered labour.

My son was born in that parking lot, and he lived only a couple of minutes, before the deranged blonde woman, beat his head in and smashed his brains out, with the same golfclub she had just used to sever my spine and leave me crippled for the rest of my life.

Realizing that I was not transgender, and they'd just murdered a baby, the man grabbed the 2 women and forcibly dragged them away to a 4 door white pickup truck, and they left me there to die.

The FBI told me later, that a few weeks before this attack, and transwoman, had murdered a cis woman, in a parking lot, abou 20 miles away from where I was attacked. The FBI, believes that my attackers, had somehow found out I wrote transgender fiction, connecting my real name to my penname, (my father's name is in fact "Ken", and I do have a brother) and believed that I wrote transgender fiction, because I was myself transgender, even though I'm not transgender. The FBI, believes the attackers, thought I was my brother, pretending to be a woman.

The FBI investigation, into my son's murder, has dragged on for 13 years, and still now in 2026, continues on, with the FBI, still not having yet identified my attackers, and only guessing at what their motive was.

Thus we come to 2014, and the full swing change of the series I write. WHY my series, went from just a transman main character living life, to the full blown Mpreg genre series that it now is today.

Before the attack, I had a chance of having a baby. I don't know. And because I'm in America, I'm too old to adopt. You have to be under 45 years old to adopt a baby. That is the law in America. I was informed this, when we tried to adopt, now that my injuries leave me unable to get pregnant a 9th time.

Thus began my obsessively writing, my transman main character, pregnant. Always pregnant now. Every time. Every story. Stories that now fully focus on pregnancy, labour, miscarriages, babies dying, babies living, raising babies... the whole series, since 2014 has devolved into an outright baby obsession.

Meanwhile, reborn baby dolls were suggested to me by my therapist, and have also become a deeply obsessive part of my life. Because 13 years ago my son was murdered minutes after he was born, because a transphobic bigot mistook me for being transgender, I'm STILL in a wheelchair, struggling to relearn to use my arms and legs, now 13 years later, and I'm still DAILY dealing with police officers and FBI agents who while they are trying to find my son's killer, they are also daily reminding me... oh, yeah, my son was murdered, literally ripped out of my belly, by a transphobe. Who still has not been located and walks free to kill again.

The golfclub woman as she looked during the golf club attack at Southern Maine community college November 14, 2013. She is about 20 to 30 years older then me and would be around 75 to 85 years old now in 2026.

Clairescreenshot.pngIf you have any information about the identity of this child murderer, please call FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322

The golfclub woman as she looked during the shopping cart attack at Scarborough WalMart July 26, 2016. She is about 20 to 30 years older then me and would be around 75 to 85 years old now in 2026.

zzzz999ClaireRed2016-screenshotIf you have any information about the identity of this child murderer, please call FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322

The 2nd woman as she looked at both attacks, her hair goes all the way down to her knees. She is about 20 to 30 years older then me and would be around 75 to 85 years old now in 2026.

Kendrascreenshot.pngIf you have any information about the identity of this child murderer's accomplice, please call FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322

Do you know who these two woman who crippled me and murdered my baby, at Southern Maine Community College at 10PM on November 14, 2013, are, and what their connection to the backhoe that drove over my house is? If you have any information, please give it to FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322 of the Portland, Maine FBI office.

I am a legally blind quadriplegic, and low verbal, I have also published 138 novels in the last 48 years. It's not as impossible as people think. The problem being blind and quadriplegic, medically have different meanings then how those two words are used medically.

Fewer than 3% of all blind people see nothing. While 97% people who are classified as fully blind are able to see up to two feet in front of them. Legally blind means I can see more then two feet in front of me but not far enough to see twenty feet in front of me. In my case I can see about eight feet.

Quadriplegic, has varying levels, it means having a damaged nerve bundle in the spinal column causing limited mobility of all 4 limbs, (in my case this was done by a women wielding a golf club, who also beat my 8 month infant's head to pulp on the parking lot tarmak, at the same time she severed my spine with the same golf club; both on November 14, 2013; the FBI investigation into my son's murder and my being crippled has gone on now for 13 years, a few weeks away from 14 years now, and the FBI has still not identified the killer or her motive). Contrary to popular misconception, quadriplegic does NOT mean ZERO movement, it means means limited movement, specifically in means unable to lift arms over head, unable to grip fingers around objects to pick them up, and unable to stand for more then 5 minutes to a time. Because there are so many thousands of nerves in each limb it is actually very rare for there to be 100% no movement, but how much, and to what extent varies by patent depending upon the specific point of injury to the spinal column.

Meaning typing is still possible for over 60% of all quadriplegics.

In my case, it was the lower spine that was severed, cutting off completly my ability to move my right leg, leaving limited feeling in my left leg, and an ability to stand but not walk, with crutches, for the first 9 years. I regained enough nerve growth in my legs by the 9th year to be able to take ten or twelve steps allowing me to get out of bed for the first time since the golf club attack; This in turn lead to me being able to start using a wheelchair, as I was able to sit upright for the first time as well.

Because the shattered vertebrae bone fragments are broken off completly and embedded into the nerve bundle just above my tailbone, doctors were saying I would never walk again, but now at 13 years, I am able to push mu wheelchair like a walker, a distance of almost a thousand steps a day. Though doctors are still doubtful I will ever walk "normally" again, I have proven them wrong, when their said 13 years ago, that I would never walk again at all.

But because of the placement of the damage to my spine, regaining hand use, was always thought possible, it was just a matter of waiting long enough for nerve regrowth, along side daily finger exercises. I was able to continue writing, after becoming quadriplegic, because I still have use of my right thumb, and 2 fore figures of my right hand. And can type 90 words per minute with those 3 fingers.

I however have no wrist strength, elbow strength, or shoulder strength, so I am not able to form a fist, or lift objects, or brush my hair, or my teeth, all thing I have to have my caretaker do. But, those things are not needed for typing. Unfortunately, my pinky and ring fingers are "nerve dead" and drag over the keyboard, and cause horrific spelling errors and typos, which are incredibly frustrating to deal with.

Unfortunately trying to edit errors myself, just makes the errors worse, because those same two fingers drag over the keyboard yet again. Prior to the golf club attack, I rarely had spelling errors; now I got more spelling errors then someone is learning English as second language. Editing is a challenge, that I've had to accept, I simply can not do myself, and I have to hire several editors to help with that.

Low verbal means sounds can still be made, sounds that software programs like Dragon can be trained to recognize and translate, and type into full words. More then half my novels were typed with this method.

I still have a long ways to go before I am anything close to being able to do the things I could do before the golf club woman beat my baby's brains out and shattered my spine. And you know what's more frustrating then how slow mu medical progression has been? The fact that it's been 13 years and the police and FBI are still coming up at dead ends as to who the woman who murdered my baby was, or why she even did it.

My son's 14th birthday is only a few weeks away, but he didn't even get to live long enough to celebrate his 1st birthday, I don't even know why. And I can't wait to regain my ability to walk again, because regaining my ability to walk, means gaining the ability to go outside and start looking for my son's murderer myself instead of sitting at home trapped in a wheelchair waiting for the police and FBI to to find her. So, writing isn't a big priority for me anymore. I only write now, as a way to exercise my hands, in between relearning to walk.

Never let a disability stop you. Plenty of writers, artists, athletes, do not let either blindness, speech impediments, or limited mobility hold then back from perusing their careers.

Do you know who these two woman who crippled me and murdered my baby, at Southern Maine Community College at 10PM on November 14, 2013, are, and what their connection to the backhoe that drove over my house is? If you have any information, please give it to FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322 of the Portland, Maine FBI office.

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