Twenty years ago, you had to wait for publishers to create a Cartel for you. J.K. Rowling didn’t need to have a community of writing friends because she had Bloomsbury to build it for her. We’re going back to the days of Mary Shelley and Ernest Hemingway, where if you wanted to be a writer, […]
What is a Cartel and Why Do You Need One? [reading]
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If you look it up on Wikipedia, a Cartel is described as an agreement among competitors.
As writers, you are competing for attention. You are competing with James Patterson and J.K. Rowling and Anne Lamott. You are also competing with me. You could choose to be hostile and competitive with me. You could put my writing down and talk about how much better yours is. You could start the writer’s equivalent of a “turf war” and fight to control your piece of the attention pie.
Or you could start a Cartel with a few other authors at your level and bake your own pie.