Pete Conrad

Pete Conrad fucking gives up. It takes me more than a year to write a book. The research, the editing. Then comes the marketing. We're forced to use Amazon and the marketing costs have skyrocketed lately. So we give our books away for free, hoping that readers will actually read them and we'll earn the percentage of a penny Amazon gives us. Nope. I have close to 35k copies in circulation, but I earned maybe a few hundred dollars. Tops. Trope writers, now they make bank with their "I didn't know I was pregnant" stories. FFS. Now that we're at the dawn of AI (YOU can write 10 books a year with our AI), I just can't find a reason to bother to write anymore. It's just a waste of my creativity, my time, my life. I've given up so many beautiful days searching for the right way to express myself that I cannot forgive myself. And screenwriting? Don't get me started. That's a fucking waste of time. Anyway, don't stop reading, and fuck Jeff Bezos.