We all make mistakes in our teenage years. Mine just happened to be of a more... "literary" variety. I wrote a much better book here: • i wrote a book with my...
I actually like this one. It's not amazing by any means, but I enjoyed the narrative, and your detailed descriptions about places and characters. I think it needed a better story, but the writing itself is pretty solid.
The real story here is that of Tim. A man with a vision, founding a company with his friend only to see it go bankrupt, becoming a father and loosing his friend to cancer
yeah, that was sad. I'm technically on my way making my own company, started from this small working desk on my home, doing stuff on my laptop, hoping it will get bigger in the future. Me, just like Tim, had a good intentions of empowering local business and making name for myself. I fear when it doesn't work out, I have to be like Tim, move on to do another thing, leaving things I dream behind because it doesn't float, and I think there's nothing more sad than leaving what you dream of, let it dust in the corner and well... become a milestone of failure in your life.
Now the used books are worth some hundreds, just out of the "the books is so bad" hype. He's negotiating a deal to sell the rights to some sort of "mystery science theater 3000" of books being mocked in audio books.
@@commentsanitizer7929 I... don't understand your reply. He's not doing this for money (in theory), He legitimately wanted this book to be erased from existence, with no trace. Ironically doing the exact opposite.
Honestly the dude you bought the company from has the most depressing story ever. He wanted to make a company to give young authors a starting point but the dropped the business and then his friend died. Like it’s just so depressing.
A company like this wouldn't have been set up in that way. If there are debts (which I doubt), they would have to be paid out of the assets of the company. Part of which its CEO just deleted. Oops. *That* would be the only thing any aggrieved parties could come after.
I thought about it when I was younger, but I figured my luck is it wouldn't become popular until I made the 5th or 6th revised copy and I was dead haha
Yeah you should do that!! I did that with my childhood comics, its so weird to see how you can make the same thing twice and have such a different outcome.
This is a review I saw on the amazon page... Easily one of the best books I've never read. I saw the cover and instantly knew I had to have it, the only problem being that for some reason, the author took it off the shelves! One day I hope the book comes back so I can read it and follow Charlie Wade on his exciting adventures through the 21 book series. Can't wait for more from this author! Thanks, a hungry reader wanting more.
There is a review from 2010 that reads: "I really enjoyed this book, it was very well written from both points of view. My only complaint is it was too short and just left me wanting more!! Hope to see the new book soon. Can't go wrong with this book just buy it!"
Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, praise the eternal justice of man!
I have that book Here is the 1st chapter: ----------------------------------------------------------PAGE 1 ---------------------------------------------------------- CHAPTER 1 Here we go. Charlie Wade stepped forward to enter the small conference room. Inside was a chair waiting for him, placed dead center a few yards away from a long table, where six well-dressed parole board members were looking him over intently. Wade walked over to the chair as calmly as possible, and took a seat. The chains attached to his handcuffs knocked against one another as he sat, making a loud and obnoxious 'chinging' sound that he had become far too accustomed to. He lifted his left hand to draw his hair behind his face, looking at the group of people before him. One of the men opened up a file folder and turned on a camera. “Please state your name for the record,” he said bluntly. “Charlie Wade.” Wade cleared his throat and straightened himself up. He needed to look as dignified as possible. “Thank you,” a woman responded. She opened her folder as well, and looked up at him. “Mr. Wade, the purpose of this hearing is to determine whether or not you meet the proper qualifications for early release,” she stated. “While your conviction was meant to last until age 21, you have shown remarkable improvement on both your part, and the part of your fellow inmates.” Wade remained silent. She continued, “You have been suggested by senior staff members, ward supervisors, as well as in-house occupants to be placed on the short list as a nominee for early release on good behavior.” “I understand,” Wade responded. Another man from the board leaned towards Wade. “Mr. Wade, what we're trying to find out today is: if given the opportunity to be released back into society, what guarantee is there that you wont fall back into a life of crime?” Take your time, Wade thought. Give them an answer that works. “My family is no longer here, I've been making smart decisions in this place, I'm an adult now,” Wade said clearly. “I can live on my own ” “Perhaps,” the man interrupted. “But, several of my colleagues and I are not fully convinced. The outburst of emotion you displayed that initially got you in this whole mess was started because you refused to get help. ----------------------------------------------------------PAGE 2 ---------------------------------------------------------- “I would have thought the reason it started was because of my father,” Wade interjected. “The reason I'm talking about - the reason you're in here - is because of you, and the choice you made,” the man said sternly. Idiot, Wade told himself. Quit arguing with him, or you'll never get out of here. “I know where to go if I need help,” Wade said aloud. The man craned his neck to the side. “If that were true, then why didn't you seek help before your first offense?” Wade thought for a moment, staring down at his hands, glued together restlessly on top of his lap. He peered down himself, and looked at the bright-orange jumpsuit he was wearing, thoughts racing through his head. “My home life was cruel. My school life was worse. I had nothing. I was miserable. I fell into a self-destructive pattern where nothing mattered to me, and I didn't care about anything, or anybody. And, living in that sort of situation ” “Once again, Mr. Wade, we're here to discuss you. Not to hear you blame your actions on everything under the sun ” “I'm not 'blaming my actions' on anything, or anyone, for that matter,” Wade cut in. He was tired of getting interrupted. This was his chance. His turn to speak. “I blame me,” Wade said, looking at the man. “Just as much as you do. I had the choice as to whether or not I was going to be in here, and I made the wrong choice. I have another chance now…an opportunity to make a better choice. I've got a chance to start over. And, I promise you, and I promise myself: I won't make the wrong choice again.” Glances darted between the board members for several moments. Finally, a woman spoke. “Mr. Wade, what do you think you would do, if released?” Wade looked at each one of the board members, making eye contact with every one of them. He then tilted his head upwards, considering. ***********************************************************************************
When I was 17, I wrote a novelette (not a novel, because it was only 18 700 words long). I was very eager to publish it, but being 17, I didn't know how to do so I uploaded PDFs of it on some literary web platforms. With my own legal name. The work was not "young adult" or anything of the kind. It was very gory. And it was based on a true story. I hadn't even changed the names of the characters. It was very good, as far as its literary value was concerned. It was just that one of the people involved in the novelette sued my parents, I had to remove the PDFs from the websites, and my mother ended up paying £8 600 pounds in fines. No need to say she got really mad at me and I promised her to pay it back. I'm almost 28 now and I still haven't. Taking into account the inflation, I owe my mom £11 400.
This man bought a publishing company FOR A FUCKIN DOLLAR! Ya already made movies, wrote a book, made a web series, and now own a company. I better see some books published with an Austin McConnell stamp on them.
Or run another student author contest and make some teenager go through the exact same thing in 5-10 years. edit: make sure you sell them the company for more than $1 so you can make a larger profit than before, and under the conditions that they do the same thing you did. The company will essentially be a curse to be passed down through generations.
I think it should be one of those generic stories where you see how far someone is willing to go to achieve something, but it should be something menial like the actual book. That way it would be a generic story with a little comedic spice.
I won’t reveal my age, but lets-just-say I’m an unstable teen halfway trough writing a comic (at least I’m going to publish it in 2019 or 2020 when I’m hopefully less unstable and less edgy oof)
So: he makes all he possibly can to erase from the internet a book he's write to avoid shame, but he also makes a public on RU-vid about the existence of that book. Cool move.
Austin, the day you put this video online, the following review has been published on your books Amazon page : "Easily one of the best books I've never read. I saw the cover and instantly knew I had to have it, the only problem being that for some reason, the author took it off the shelves! One day I hope the book comes back so I can read it and follow Charlie Wade on his exciting adventures through the 21 book series. Can't wait for more from this author! Thanks, a hungry reader wanting more." Cheers hahaha
Take away the chances of people mocking your book online by doing it yourself. Read us excerpts from your masterpiece. Then sign the copies and do a giveaway.
Google Search: Gregory Austin McConnell is an American film writer, director, author and actor. He is the writer, director, and co-star of the science-fiction film Sprouting Orchids. He also owns Missing Mozart Publishing.
If, and whenever quarantine ends and people are allowed to gather in public spaces again. You might run into Austin on his way out, and the copy of Fallen Angels would disappear soon after. Despite no one having taken it out.
Man, what a fantastic story. I say you novelise the heart-pounding exchange between yourself and Tim and print it through Missing Mozart Publishing. That would be so meta.
Honestly, you're starting to become one of my favourite creators on this platform! I never know what the next video's going to be about, but I always know it's going to entertain me! Keep it up man!
@@elliotkamper I will adamantly defend the last three and the spinoff. Not the first one though, it really is just Star Wars with dragons. But oddly, that makes it more fun for me.
I feel bad for all the teenage writers in the comments and watching this. Don't fret children, learn from Austin's mistakes. You can save yourselves! Keep writing and hone your craft! Just don't get ahead of yourself and publish your work thinking that it's good cause 9/10 times it might not be. If you believe in your work and want to get it out there, get some local people to read your work. Getting feedback will let you know if it's good or not. Also, you shouldn't get it out there immediately after finishing. Wait a few months to let it cool down and then go back and read over it. With fresh new eyes you might see some major errors. That's good though! Don't let Austin's story scare you but encourage you to be better. Always strive to be better then you are currently. Cause one day, we'll see your awesome books on the shelves.
It makes me extra sure that if I do try to go through a publishing route with a novel to aim for a literary agent that can tell a good book from a bad one (who then would pitch it a publishing house, which then if it accepts it there would be a hundred working on it in little ways). Not to say that I could even GET an agent - that's super hard! - but it would be a way to gauge when I'm ready to publish. That process still ended up with Twilight being published, but that's one way to determine the quality of a work: by seeing if it holds up against professionals who receive thousands of stupid, poorly-written manuscripts by overambitious young authors a year. To be ripped apart by hundreds of literary agents, but also potentially critiqued so that you can grow (and know, at least, if your novel is "almost good"). I don't want to ever go through a self-publishing or "small publishing house with really, really low standards" route (as Austin did) because I want to be rejected and tested and maybe even proven if what I does has any potential - or, maybe, if I'm lucky it might be good. It's super overambitious, but for me it's the only *real* way to see if I have any future as an author.
Also, consider using a pen name. It's fun to get to choose a name for yourself, and then you can avoid having it pop up in google searches of your name if you ever don't want to be associated with it anymore
I would add to never be so embarrassed by your early work that you destroy it or hide it. I think that's a practice that hurts creative fields and our artistic culture in a broader sense tremendously. Explain where it came from if you really feel the need to. But in large part because of this impulse, all artists just starting out have an extremely distorted idea of how difficult it is to build your skill, and laypeople have the idea that you need some mystical gift of 'talent' to realize success, That the rockstars in writing, music, and art are born with some godlike perspective that puts them above the rest. Writing is a job. You do research and work in the background. It's _hard_ fucking work and you'll make many horrible mistakes, there are no shortcuts, and it's going to suck until it gets better. But that also tells you it's possible, since there's no impossible to obtain divine spark you're missing.
If you want to hunt around for a copy, whatever, but please be careful. Lots of the sites that supposedly "stock" the book are scams. Don't be dumb and enter your credit card information on shady foreign sites, or click on unverified pdf links. Be smart. Okay. Bye.
austinmcconnell I love that you were willing to go to these lengths just to make sure no one saw this book of yours. Do you think making a video like this could end up having a Barbara Streisand type Effect and leading to more people finding it? Either way, great video man!
austinmcconnell can’t you just change the name of the corporation and than use it to conduct any business that you may have in the future, I mean already owning a company just means you never have to bother with making one if you end up with a new self employed job Idk how it works lol but let us know what you do with it
Republish, and use your new company lol. Publish indie books and continue the legacy that the founders started. Help young authors get their start and embarrass themselves. Continue the cycle.
Davis Davis (Quote) 1 year ago (edited) Or run another student author contest and make some teenager go through the exact same thing in 5-10 years. edit: make sure you sell them the company for more than $1 so you can make a larger profit than before, and under the conditions that they do the same thing you did. The company will essentially be a curse to be passed down through generations.
congratulations you have what (i think is called) a "diamond effect" you just told us that this is almost impossible to find... on your very popular youtube channel as a result of that many people will now question:"was the book THAT bad?" "i really want to check for myself" and they will somehow find it
Hey why don't YOU run a writing contest and publish the winner on using Missing Mozart. Try and do what Tim and the other guys couldn't do and turn their project into a reality. You have the audience to do it why not try?
Austin bought a company to delete a book that he has now read online on RU-vid for free. The power of embarrassment is strong and I don't think I would've done anything different
You should carry on their dream. Get people to send in their stories and books and publish the best of them. With the platform you’ve earned yourself by being in RU-vid you could promote these books, and possibly start the career of some writers. I think that would be nice. You could also just do nothing but that’s not a nice sentiment so do the first one.
That's an excellent idea. I myself have a few things I'd like to put up somewhere (One of my works is about as long as the first part of his published work) and it would be interesting to see how it was received. Maybe, in the spirit of things, the people uploading works HAVE to (or at least are meant to) upload it using an alias, pen name, whatever? I know that I would definitely want to, now. Sheesh, this story makes me think twice about putting my works up under my REAL name.
But it should be said that movies are sometimes made based on books as well as there are books wrote about movies. And he should have loved to write, as he actually wrote the book and won the contest.
Petition for Austin to do a dramatic reading of the bad book as a pattern exclusive or something. People would pay for that and it’d be hilarious I’m sure
So, guess what? At 12:00, it said $24.96 for the selling price. Well, search for the book in Google Books and look through the reviews. "This book was so good. I sold mine for $24.96. Hope the buyer enjoys it." Evidently, some other person enjoyed your book. And the "buyer" enjoyed erasing it from physical-printed-copy-in-the-hands-of-others existence. And we want to enjoy it too.
Yeah. As an awkward teen writer, I kind of want to read it. Paused video and read description, wasn't that bad other than the cringey "saved the life of a girl who was named____". That's a very cringe worthy example of unessesary information in writing. Idk I always thought "who was named" sounds strange. Otherwise, I think you should be proud of yourself for making it that far, even if it wasn't the best book ever. I wrote a 5 min script that's being produced at school and I'm very proud of it. It's complete crap. Dialogue is unrealistic, there is an unessesary sappy side scene, the story moves unnaturally. But I can't be more proud of myself. I can't wait to see actors spend weeks trying to make my script somehow look only a little crappy. Atleast I got off my butt and did it. I have a lot of other stories from elementary school like that. Even attempted to write a book. Got through 25 pages and quit. Still trying to fix plot holes 4 years later. There has to be like 50 big ones in only 24 pages *facepalm*. We all do cringey things. But it's progress. It's proof were not afraid to at least try. If you don't try, you don't accomplish anything.
I can't reread a book. It's harder for me to reread a book than it is to rewatch a show or movie. They take too long to read and I already know everything that happens.
it's the cycle that never ends, Missing Mozart was created in 1856 and ever since then this cycle has repeated, it publishes a shit book, goes out of business, author buys the company to erase the book, then the author publishes a shit book. it cannot be stopped
Well I think the book was a early step for your carrer, don't feel awful. You probably won't be known as the RU-vidr "Austinmcconnell" *Interesting video by the way, made my day*
To be fair, Mary Shelley not only had incredible literary talents, she was also married to and best friends with some of the best writers of the Romantic movement. Frankenstein didn’t come out of a vacuum. Many of the people in her circle wrote landmark pieces of literature, including her mentor (sorta) writing one of the most iconic pieces of poetry of all time. She was exposed to great minds and great writers that helped shape who she was as a writer. Most young writers don’t have that.
Dude, I just found your channel and I would love to read your single book. I always love reading young authors (I'm one myself; nothing recognizably published yet) and getting ideas where I could dabble. Anyway, this is by far IMHO a pretty good indie channel. Keep on making' moves...
"this book isnt worth your time its one of oddest books ive ever read i wouldnt bother.the cover of this books leads readers to believe that an exciting adventure awaits.well there isnt. the hole book is about a man who violates his probation and saves a girl from a mugger.the man ends up going to jail, and the girl feels bad so she goes to the trail and helps sway the vertect. this book is very predictable and not as good of a read as it protrays to be. i guess you really cant judge a book by its cover." - hendricksa, 2011
I can't stop laughing over the fact that you technically became the CEO of an entire (albeit practically defunct) company just to get your book off the shelves. You are a brilliant man, Mr. McConnell.
Fredico Finjay She was a high functioning genius who kept company with the literary elite. I can also guarantee that her first several drafts would have sucked, were it not for all the editing support she would have received.
Your content portrays the world with such a stark contrast compared to how people think it works. It’s amazing. Wow! Thanks for sharing your experiences!
“And nothing that anybody ever writes as a teenager is good.” That quote really scares me because I'm a 17 y/o writer myself. I'm not really going to let that discourage me though because I'm pretty confident in my ability. What I recommend to my fellow young aspiring author out there is to get tons of friends and random people online to beta read and critique your writing. People who won't pull their punches and will tell you how it is. That's really the best way to improve. A lot of times, you'll write something and won't even realize it's bad. You need other people to point that out to you. I've been writing for about a year now and when I look back at the first thing that I ever wrote that's sitting in my google docs collecting dust, I cringe and want to delete it from existence. But at the same time, I don't really want to delete it because it is proof that I've improved.
You've done more in your life so far than most people I know even aspire to do in the same time. Next video will be about how you "technically" were president of a country years ago for a day or something
My high school has the book listed on their webpage last time I checked, but it's been checked out since 2015, and is now considered lost. That's something.
